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| Vista Home Premium x64 | Poll: What AV do you use? Obviously we have split opinions about which one is better, and half of this subsection is talking about the same thing, "which is best" which is hard to argue. It's easier to find out which one is most used. I'm not sure if it's useful information, but I'm curious. Oh, and please mention what you are using on post if you are using x64, since I'm looking for a good one to install when I install Vista Home Premium x64. |
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| Vista™ Ultimate x64 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? avast! here, on Home Premium x64 too. It's handy, doesn't take a lot of memory & has great On-access Protection. |
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? I use Vista x64. I also use NOD32 3.0 as it has the smallest footprint (system resource use), fastest, most accurate, and most thorough scanning and cleaning. It also provides antimalware/antispyware protection. Product Software updates are free upgrades. You can back up config setting if you tweak for maximum protection, and It has also consistently won more VB100 awards, and other Independent testing awards than any other antimalware/antivirus vendor out there. 3.0 is also a native 64-bit program, as opposed to many that are 32-bit running in windows on windows emulation. For those interested in antivirus security, or If you are just looking for a program that will actually protect your computer(s), you should check out this link. Most antivirus/antimalware programs are tested periodically by independent (non-biased) security organizations to see how well they perform. testing on the Vista SP1 platform was performed a few months ago by Virus Bulletin who awards the VB100 Award to those antimalware vendors that meet their high standards: (1. It most not miss any "In the wild" malware, 2. It must not give "false Positives", 3. It must do all this in it's default configuration out of the box). note-"In the wild" means malware currently circulating and infecting systems. "false Positives" is the detecting of malware, that is in effect not malware. http://www.vistax64.com/system-secur...es-vendor.html Last edited by rive0108; 08-19-2008 at 06:17 PM.. |
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| Windows Vista Ultimate x64 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? Antivir Premium. |
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| vista home premium 32bit | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? norton 360 after having one company one go to melt down and not wanting to work went to norton and was happy |
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| Vista™ Ultimate x64 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? avast! just ignored a virus and now my installation was almost gone, I wiped avast! and installed NOD32, which did find the virus and deleted it. -1 vote avast! +1 vote NOD32 |
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| Vista Home Premium 32 bit | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? Webroot Spysweeper with Antivirus v5.8.1.51 - AV is made by Sophos |
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? |
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? Hi Rive, The virus definition database may not have been updated at the time they ran these tests. I'm sure that Avast and the others will catch up when they have their definitions updated. I use the free version of Avast, and have not had one virus yet. |
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| Vista Ultimate X64 SP2 | Re: Poll: What AV do you use? Hmmm, seems foolish for an antivirus vendor hoping to recieve a VB100 Award to submit its program without up-to-date virus definitions. Also, most of the good antivirus programs use advanced heuristics, and do not solely rely on virus definitions as that is reactive, and means that the program cannot protect against new, and unknown malware threats. Last edited by rive0108; 08-19-2008 at 07:09 PM.. |
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