Anti-Virus help

[mpfive]

hey guys, i finally decided to get an anti-virus for my computer, dont feel safe any more, i need your guys suggestions, can u please tell me the following:

1. what kind of anti-virus do u use?
2. do u like it?
3. would u recommend it to me?
4. if u said no for question 3, wut anti-virus would u recommend?

thnx a lot guys, i'd really appritiate it

[Shadow Axel]

I use Microsoft anti-virus Beta. i think that it is one of the best ones out there. me and a freind tested it out agenst norton anti-virus and it stoped 6 more spywear downloads then norton.

[Johnas]

I use Avast. It's free, small and effective. No viruses sofar

[garethgeezer]

Try this one, very stable and it's free:

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

[mpfive]

thnx guys, lol, i'll check those out when i get home

[mpfive]

just thought i'd let u konw, i went w/ garethgeezer's choice, and suprisingly i found 2 trojan horses , but the program got rid of them.. so my comp is clean, lol , thank u very much man

[Zachary]

how about spyware/trojan protection...got it yet?

if no, then get this one http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

and heres top20 av softs
http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/...re/top-20.html

[mpfive]

ooh, thnx man, i have the spybot S&D installed already.. lol

[XSImatrix]

i dont use antivirus.... slows down comp and i reformat regularly.

but make sure you have things to block spyware and quick scripts and trojan registry keys. (SPSD is amazing. use teatimer if you styill use ie.)

but what i do use sometimes if something wierd is up on the computer, i run avg free av, only had 1 virus ever found and a couple minor things.

[mpfive]

thnx, thats basically wut i'm using rite now, so far so good, thnx to u guys, didnt have to spend money

[Johnas]

Originally Posted by XSImatrix

i dont use antivirus.... slows down comp and i reformat regularly.

Avast doesn't slow computer at all only then when it installs new virusdatabase but it doesn't do it all the time. You should have atleast something on your comp.

[revelli]

or you can use firewall - like Kerio personal firewall to get rid of this little beasts

[gangmemberno23]

1. panda platinum 2005 internet security (for viruses, firewall etc..)
2. spybot - search & destroy (for standard blockings, like unwanted reg entries/changes etc)
3. regcleaner (for startup control)
4. hijackthis (for seeing the *.dlls that the running programs use, important if you have to manually eliminate a virus/trojan/hijacker that controls more than one program at a time or if it controls itself by using two virus programs that control each other, and if one gets deleted the other program re-writes/re-builds the deleted one (i had this case once and i had to eliminate it by my own, i needed about 7 hours to eliminate it completely, i had no antivirus installed at this time if i remember right, today i think a antivirus like panda should do the job before the virus can do anything))

virus free greetings

[mpfive]

hmm... thnx man...i'll look more into that hijacker thing