Check this out !!

I have Norton System Works Professional 2003 and it's only 90%. And the money I had to pay for it !!

I've not had any problems with my PC in terms of virus's... I've got protection (wahay!) from Mcafee and am careful with what I download and am fairly strict on how I have my browser settings.

One thought that I cant rid myself of, whenever I hear about Virus's, is that some documentry on TV a couple of years back, pointed the finger of blame for many of the new virus's at "consultants" who were working for some of the companies that write the virus killing/detection software.

And thats a licence to print money...

I also think that many more of the ISP's should install virus killing software AT SOURCE - eg: on their own email servers. That way, any virus's found in emails and/or attached files could be stripped out en-route from A to B, rather than individual users having to concern themselves. I heard that some ISP's already offer this.

I agree, with a Hotmail account you get a scan for downloads free, so if they can do it why can't everyone else

Ive got no worries too!! I use Mcafee antivirus shield and i use Zone alarm which this the absolute dogs!! Never got the virus which was associated with XP or nothing!! Infact nothing gets into my machine which is really good!! Well worth having and a free download is available.

BT Internet has recently implemented a virus checker at source in association with McAfee, along with a spam killer and I receive notably less spam since these implementations.

Blueyonder also virus check all emails, (Wish they had got round to spam though!)

Spin

I'm with Norton Internet Security.

Hi peeps

for my sins, I used Grisoft's AVG for a while, until the MSBlaster got me. Then I decided McAffee would be a good idea.

Tip...whenever you download a program off the net, or anything for that matter. Say for the sake of argument you saved it to your desktop, right click on it to open up the context menue, there's an option to scan with anti virus, quick and easy.

Darren

I have just subscribed to Norton for another year, but may still go with McAfee

On my old Tower System - I had Norton.

This one came with PC-Cillin 2002. I joined for a years subscription - and get 1 - 2 updates (patchs) per week.

It is not the best anti-virus solution in the world - but brilliant against Ping attacks / Bugbear virus attacks.

I check the computer at random (virus scans) and can be either once, twice or five times per week - it varies.

When I had Norton - It was also very good - but I may have configured it wrong as it 'took over' everything I wanted to do!!!!!

(Makes T3 Rise of The Machines - believeable!!!!)

I use:

Norton Antivirus 2004 Proffesional and Norton Personal Firewall 2004 Proffesional.

They are the dogs danglies. Well recommended!!

Joe

i use norton av and a hardware fire wall

Norton AV 2004, Hardware and Software Firewalls, GCS Anti-Spam, and Ad-aware

Another tip, if you are looking to buy any software, is to buy it from download sites in the U.S.

With £1 being worth close to $2 at the moment now is a good time to buy! for example:-

PC software that you can purchase by download ...
Several vendors offer this option - always worth checking if they sell in US dollars,

For example Norton AntiVirus 2005 purchase from Symantec.

UK download price = £44.99
US download price = $49.95 = £26.00 + VAT = £30.55

Some smaller sites don't even charge UK customers the VAT either! so shop around!

The same advice applies to any goods which you buy where the checkout gives you the option to pay in US$ - choose this option and you'll save quite a few £!. Paypal is another example.

Hmm, I'm now wondering whether crispy is psychic, as i was gonna post almost the same message!
The other day I extended my licences on Zone Alarm and McAfee and other software such as DJIntelligence because of the weak dollar, even though none of them run out for a few more months, but it will save me money in the long run once the US$ regains it's usual rate to the UK£.

Well i'm buggered!

I use McAfee 7.1 which is number 4 in the list....

But i am very suprised by the number 1 position!

I have ad-aware, spy sweeper and norton. Even still you don't need them if you don't go on illegal sites,you won't find the need for a really good anti-virus software- I mean I do a scan every 1 month but it's hardly necessary.

Slightly off topic - has anyone received a few updates from good ol' Microsoft lately?

Yep... every few days !

How good is my anti-virus software?!

Absolutely shockingly shite!

I havent been online for ages because of a trojan finding its way onto my computer and messing things up

I've dealt with it now, (following steps on the Symantec website on how to remove it), and thankfully have now hopefully sorted things out and back to normal again

It caused a bit of damage (totally messed up my internet connection, and completely ripped norton antivirus to shreds! )... but everything is (hopefully) sorted now.

Why the hell didn't Norton Antivirus discover it straight away. Grrrrr!

Joe

I have NAV Pro 2005 and its tells me to update it, also MS had downloaded a few updates on most of my computer lately

Hmm..... Viruses...

Someone asked me: "why don't virus scanners stop all the viruses?"

Well, its quite simple... Firstly someone has to get the virus, "capture" it and then debug it to write an antidote... Same way real a virus works !

"So how is a virus checker supposed to know when the new bit of code is a virus?"

Because it recieves updates from the company that created the virus scanner, and then your pc can be "imune"...

So there is a few questions answered for you.

However !!!! a firewall is NOT a virus guard. It is a hacker guard. A virus is software that attaches to another file, or is its own file that is downloaded, sent via e-mail or runs from a website. The firewall will only protect the pc from breakout code from when your pc is attacked or is trying to attack with a barage of e-mail.

The best option is to have a hardware firewall (built into the router), a software firewall, a virus checker, and some ad/spy ware remover.

This is how i have been running for 3 years, and i have only ever had 1 virus which was promptly removed... I do have various attacks on my web site, but no one has succeded in getting into my network.

Hope this is of some help...

By the way: the lastest virus table is here.