Choose your poison!!!

yk1 · Post by **yk1** » 26 Sep 2002, 19:45

Which anti-virus gets the job done. My money is on mcafee and everything else plain sucks!!
 I can say this cause I provide support for mcafee users and the newest version kicks bottom.
 
 What you get when you purchase virusscan 7. A solid anti-virus product, a free firewall and free chat support. Can any other manfacturer meets you halfway???? <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_cool.gif">
 
 Read this article:
 
 <a href="http://www.cnet.com/software/0-806174-1 ... ag=rev-rev" target="_blank">http://www.cnet.com/software/0-806174-1 ... ev</a>
 
 And this one for the firewall:
 
 <a href="http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communitie ... rods.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.icsalabs.com/html/communitie ... ml</a>
 
 And if anyone needs help with thier mcafee product contact support from here:
 
 <a href="http://www.mcafeehelp.com" target="_blank">http://www.mcafeehelp.com</a>
 
 It free!!!!!

snipeers · Post by **snipeers** » 01 Oct 2002, 19:01

by the way it look it seems that you´re a sales personnel for mcafee. well i used NAV, PC-cillin and Zonealarm to poison my system but they dont suck at all. if you´re looking for a manufacturer who can at least come halfway with your mcafee - its Symantec´s NSW. but then again, there´s no real protection in an unreal world and the best protection still is to back-up your system whenever possible... there´s no such thing as solid anti-virus or firewall for that matter. anyway, nice try mr. salesman but you cant cough my penny out into your product. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_cool.gif"> [ Edited by snipeers On Date October 01, 2002 ]

yk1 · Post by **yk1** » 02 Oct 2002, 01:31

salesman nope. I actually wanted to see what response I would get here. If you are the only one when then thats weak. <IMG SRC="images/forum/smilies/icon_confused.gif">
 
 I am actually a technical support person based in cape town and we provide support for mcafee. The free chat support I mentioned.

Post by **Synkronos** » 13 Mar 2003, 17:24

Ummm... NAV kicks the stuffing out of every AV proggy that I have used in terms of both protection and usability, and I have used a lot of them and dealt with various others on friend´s/family´s systems. NAV also have the best website in terms of online resources.

Dragoneyes · Post by **Dragoneyes** » 31 Aug 2003, 22:06

Well I am using e-scan from microword and zone alarm and I am sattisfied with them and like they ..... if they want in they will get in

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 31 Aug 2003, 22:13

I dont use any!!

AngryRabbit · Post by **AngryRabbit** » 01 Sep 2003, 07:38

LordRage wrote:I dont use any!!

Why not?

NinjaTic · Post by **NinjaTic** » 01 Sep 2003, 07:41

He likes "Backdoor" viruses!

gareth007 · Post by **gareth007** » 01 Sep 2003, 08:39

I use norton antivirus, mainly for ease of use, with liveupdates etc.
Zonealarm as well as blackice for my firewalls. Blackice is a nice background firewall, letting zonealarm take care of everything, and if anything comes through, i let blackice clean it out

gorak · Post by **gorak** » 01 Sep 2003, 09:52

i use protector plus . very nice - not much overhead on the system .

default · Post by **default** » 04 Sep 2003, 16:09

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Post by **OnlyOneKenobi** » 04 Sep 2003, 16:10

We use Mcaffee at work, which doesn't seem to work well at all, even with all the newest dat file updates...

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 04 Sep 2003, 16:48

We use Nortons at work, and I have McAfee at home.
I prefer McAfee, because I feel its less intrusive - you hardly know its there.
If you want a hardcore antivirus app use Antigen, it runs on all our exchange servers and kills everything.
I wouldnt even use antivirus at home except that my mum checks her mail on my PC and she will click on anything (If you attach a file called "Click this to nuke ur PC.EXE" to a mail and send it to my mum, she'll open it!).

LordRage · Post by **LordRage** » 04 Sep 2003, 21:00

As a reply to Angry... I JUST DONT, does it really matter that I dont... no!!

Boesman · Post by **Boesman** » 04 Sep 2003, 22:36

I don't really use anti-virus software, but If i think I have a virus I install one and update to check...........

lancelot · Post by **lancelot** » 05 Sep 2003, 10:31

I use NAV at work and at home, never had problems with it. I used McAfee years back but changed when NAV brought out their LiveUpdate. I dont think MacAfee had it then, can't really remember. I find firewalls a hassle bcause mine blocked some stuff I needed so I removed it .

AngryRabbit · Post by **AngryRabbit** » 05 Sep 2003, 10:50

LordRage wrote:As a reply to Angry... I JUST DONT, does it really matter that I dont... no!!

Well not if you stay offline and away from Lans, I would suggest you use some protection when we Lan though. Once all the Knights got infected with some crappy virus we contracted at a Lan, it was nothing serious, but my dad nearly killed me.