Comments on: List of Best Antivirus Software

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:55:29 +0000

I do not trust anything that comes via Digg, it is one BIG viral virus thingy!

By: IncrediBILL

IncrediBILL — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:30:03 +0000

Hey, don’t trust MY judgement LOL!

I’m just not jumping off my current virus scanners which have served me well until I understand the test suite better is all, and I’m a huge procrastinator so don’t do what I do.

By: Jim Boykin

Jim Boykin — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:27:55 +0000

well Bill, I trust your judgement above whoever did this report…so OK, AVG it is again.

By: IncrediBILL

IncrediBILL — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:26:27 +0000

Don’t know how much validity I would put in this report as mentioned above, but my laptop is still secured with AVG and no plans to change it.

By: Jim Boykin

Jim Boykin — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:24:59 +0000

Aaron, I too was a AVG fan….until I read that report….now, I’m actually using the AOL…so funny….guess AOL IS good for Something (it’s a free download, and you don’t need AOL to get it).

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:08:30 +0000

AVG hands down, it’s free and auto-updates, the virus team is also faster to innoculate new strains than paid antivirus programs.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Firewall

The free version of Zone Alarm

http://www.zonelabs.com/?lid=home_freedownloads

On max security level you are stealth…

By: IncrediBILL

IncrediBILL — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:14:46 +0000

That’s a real scary list because the apparent best of breed isn’t used by the masses.

The only thing I’d be curious about is how many of the The 147,184 virus samples are still in use or even valid for later OS’s which would make those tools still dragging around the extra baggage supposedly fare better than a tool with an optimized and up-to-date virus checklist.

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:05:27 +0000

Here’s another good one: http://www.apple.com/macosx/

Seriously though, back in the day when I used Windows, F-Secure rocked. AntiVir is another good one, and it’s free.