12-02-2006, 03:10 PM
Vanraw Wrote:What do you use?
Ive had Mcfee. I quit it a long time ago. Wenbt to Norton. Norton became a resource hog, quit it, went back to mcafee, was ok for a while, now its more of a virus then the protectin it provides.
There are a bunch or shareware / non major brand names.
I work at a locally owned computer service shop. I'll give you the same recomendations I'd give our customers.
If it had to be one program? I use a lot of free programs myself but I haven't really found a pay program that is better then any of these.
Avast! antivirus
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it's free forever and auto updating. You'll have to "register" with them (give them an email addy) in order to use it more then 60 days. The cool thing about it has a bootime scan. That boottime scan is my tool of choice for virus fighting. It's VDDB is about the best incursion recovery tool i've seen yet.
Of cource I can't just recomend one. 8>
Spybot, search and destroy
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a pretty good adware removal tool. It's innoculate function is a MUST for any computer. i usually follow up spybot with:
ad-aware
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And oldie but still a goodie. Ad-aware was the commercial product that resulted from grc.com's "optout" years ago. it's quick, updates a lot, and easy to use.
About half of my business comes from virus/spyware/malware/badware removal @ $55/hour. So I do a LOT of virus removal. I've got four machines running scans right now. We use about 10-20 tools in sequence to make sure we get them all.