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Subject:
Best, I mean best anti-virus software?
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: pendleton-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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05 Feb 2003 08:24 PST
Expires: 07 Mar 2003 08:24 PST Question ID: 157621 |
I have 3 PC's in a little home-based office in Central Mexico (that should not make any difference. We have been plagued, plagued, plagued with viruses. Our technician is weary of reformatting the hard drives. We were using McAfee but we could have been using nothing and gotten the same infections. Now our tech is testing Norton 2002 and we have viruses popping up all over. There has got to be a better anti-virus program that keeps on top of the new viruses and all the tricky ones that we could live, and work and be on line in peace. We are logged on to the Internet 16 hours each day. Which sharp Answers researcher has an answer for me? Maybe we need to learn something else to protect ourselves. We just delete emails with attachments from people or messages that we know are not for us. Thanks. John P. | |
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Re: Best, I mean best anti-virus software?
Answered By: cerebro-ga on 07 Feb 2003 14:36 PST Rated: |
From personal experience I recommend the following software www.pandasoftware.com, which in fact has prevented us from any virus up to date. ( we are connected to the internete 24/7) You must of course keep up with daily updates, (and they do in fact keep in track with the last virus development) it is a pretty easy process. They are not as popular as Mcfee but the do sure do work well. You can also try their pandaactivescan, (that would be located on the lower left side) it runs easy and could let you know if there are any virus on your pc. By the way we downloaded the software right from the site (paid with credit card) no problem up to this date. | |
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Dear Cerebro-ga. Thank you for your sincere effort to give an answer. I have given you a 1-star rating, which is the first I have ever given. If you reread this whole section, you will see that before you answered, there had been a whole host of comments. Actually in my opinion acorn-ga gave an excellent and helpful comment (worth a 5star answer in my book) before you answered. I don't think that your recommendation is really the best software as per my question. I trust I do not discourage you from being an Answers researcher and you will be a better one as you pay attention to my above comments. God bless you to know and do His will! John P. |
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Re: Best, I mean best anti-virus software?
From: probonopublico-ga on 05 Feb 2003 09:32 PST |
For a start, watch out for e-mail attachments from unknown senders. Not 100% safe but could prevent some of 'em. |
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Re: Best, I mean best anti-virus software?
From: robertskelton-ga on 05 Feb 2003 10:37 PST |
I haven't had a virus in 2 years. I simply use Zone Alarm (free firewall), Norton Anti-Virus (I update the data each week) and, probably most importantly, I don't use Outlook. In fact, I only use web-based email. I doubt that your problem is Norton. Systemworks as a whole can be a system drain, but the anti-virus is excellent. |
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Re: Best, I mean best anti-virus software?
From: acorn-ga on 06 Feb 2003 13:42 PST |
I, also, am wondering about whether or not you/your tech have been updating your virus signatures regularly and strongly suspect not. My daughter had Norton on her system, sent me an email virus (which was caught), and when I went over to clean her computer, found that she had never done anything to update the virus signatures in the 16 months she had the program...she didn't realize she had to. Her computer had over a dozen viruses and she'd been infecting all sorts of other folks' computers! And that, in my opinion, a is pretty standard situation - people don't realize they have to *do* something once they install anti-virus software. Often it comes with their computer and they don't realize that it's not a buy-it-once and be-protected-forever product. I find that a major failing on the part of virus protection software manufacturers. They are not getting their message across clearly. I have been using McAfee Viruscan Online for 2 years (and Norton before that). My updates are done automatically and average about once every 3 days. Haven't had a virus in years. My daughter also uses it now and no longer has any virus problems. (Like robertskelton-ga, I also use ZoneAlarm as my firewall and don't use Outlook at home.) At work we use Outlook and AVG antivirus, which updates all the time as well, and it catches Outlook viruses all the time. The common key for these programs being successful is that the virus signatures are constantly being updated to catch all the new stuff. Frankly, there are a lot of IT folks still who aren't really good at understanding antivirus software. That's the way it was at the university library I used to work at as well as at a local college. Heck, there was a fairly recent 'attaboy' article about their IT guy and the months it took him to fix all the damage done by viruses and no mention of the fact that HE was the one responsible for keeping the viruses out and did a crummy job of it because he, like so many others, thought all he had to do was install antivirus software. By the way, Norton and McAfee, among others, offer step-by-step instructions on how to remove viruses and they very rarely require reformatting the hard drive. Just go to their website. |
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