Which Anti-Virus?

[firedup]

Hi
Anyone any views on whether I should use the bundled anti-virus or stick with AVG?
Cheers

[GeoffC]

I did not want to use the bundled app.as it was only a trial. Avg works fine. i have not noticed any slowing down as a result.

[HDLord]

I did not want to use the bundled app.as it was only a trial. Avg works fine. i have not noticed any slowing down as a result.
I use AVG complete with AVG firewall. I cannot find a way to allow USBTool to work with AVG. The solution is straight forward, in that, as you have to disconnect all wireless connections, it does not matter if you temporarily deactivate the firewall, and it seems to reactivate if you put Vista to sleep. The only other thing with AVG is it seems to muck up wi-fi unless you disable 'detect active area'.

[salmon]

Has anyone had a problem with Trend Micro when upgrading to Vista SP1? My Shift was working fine until i did the upgrade, then i had a note to upgrade the Trend Micro (due to a conflict) and from then on i had a lot of problems. The result was that my Shift was totally unable to connect to the internet over wifi or cable. After a roll back to pre-SP1 it works fine again now and i'm not keen to apply SP1 again.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggested solutions?

AVG doesn't sound that great following what i read above? What other Antivirus apps would work well on a resource limited device?

[michael85]

Has anyone had a problem with Trend Micro when upgrading to Vista SP1? My Shift was working fine until i did the upgrade, then i had a note to upgrade the Trend Micro (due to a conflict) and from then on i had a lot of problems. The result was that my Shift was totally unable to connect to the internet over wifi or cable. After a roll back to pre-SP1 it works fine again now and i'm not keen to apply SP1 again.

Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggested solutions?

AVG doesn't sound that great following what i read above? What other Antivirus apps would work well on a resource limited device?
I use NOD32 (from eset). This one works very well on SP1 and doesn't use much resources :)

[stormforger]

I have been using Avast and it seems to work fine on the shift both pre and post SP1. Avast is also free for your personal pc or a home user. You only need to pay for it when it is to used on a business system or system you use for commerical purposes.
AVG may still be slightly better on using less computer resources, but I like the Avast user interface better. Both are many times better than the blotware from norton or mcafee and such.

[salmon]

thanks guys. Is the best thing to...

1. remove Trend
2. install the SP1
3. install Avast or Nod32

[michael85]

thanks guys. Is the best thing to...

1. remove Trend
2. install the SP1
3. install Avast or Nod32
Yep, that's the correct order. (Altough it's not a problem to have nod32 installed)
Be aware that Nod32 is not free! (But in my opinion the best)

[salmon]

Thanks. I'm happy to pay for a good solution, especially if it works well on a machine that is short on spare resources... I just don't know which the best solution for this kind of PC is. Why do you like Nod32 so much?

[michael85]

..... Why do you like Nod32 so much?
I'm a computer technician and I manage a lot of networks with computers, servers etc.
I tested these programs:


Symantec antivirus
Symantec Norton Antivirus
Mcaffee
AVG (not on business computers ;))
Kaspersky
Nod32
My advice: Nod32 :cool:

[salmon]

thanks... always great to get an informed (and tested) opinion :)

[michael85]

thanks... always great to get an informed (and tested) opinion :)
No problem. THis is just the program which is not using much resources.
You only see the splash screen and never asks anything. *unless you have a virus or something :p*