Ancient Dragon

What anti-virus scanner do you use? I currently have McAfee, but am not satisfied with it for two reasons:
1. It is not written with visually-handicapped people in mind. The program's various dialog boxes are not resizeable, so if you have your computer set for large fonts you will not be able to access (or see) the various buttons, such as Ok, Cancel and others. That make some (most) dialogs unusable.

2. Scans take too long. It just now took over 4 hours to do a full scan of my computer, It has Windows XP Pro, 37Gig drive, with 25 Gig used. And there were no other processes running during this time, except those needed to keep the os going, Microsoft Spyware amd Popup Add filter.

I have been thinking of switching to Norton Antivirus. Any other opinions?

DaWei

Dragon, I have been using Norton's since before it was Symantec. I finally got tired of each new version's obviously increasing bloat. I just downloaded PC-cillin and have been running it a week. It's looking pretty good. It updates all the time, maybe 3 times a day, which is irritating, but I like the fact it does. I haven't looked, yet, to see if I can just tell it to go the hell ahead and update without bothering me. The first time I scanned with it, it found a quiescent trojan that Norton's never apprised me of. I also have not yet evaluated its firewall, but I have it on.

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BlazingWolf

25 Gig is a lot to scan. :p Thats why you leave it scan overnight. Plus because McAfee scans pretty much everything you open or look at(a personal major annoyance) a full scan probably isn't needed. I can't say that I've ever done one, and it's still stopped everything.

I only have one problem with McAfee and thats it's stupid autoscaning. Whenever I try to open a large file 20+ meg(usally an install file) it takes 9 hours(exaggeration) to open because McAfee has to scan it and it takes all of the system resources to scan it nearly freezing the computer.

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Mjordan2nd

I prefer AVG anti-virus. It's free, visually appealing (to me anyway), and as far as I can tell, my computer has been kept very clean. I use that along side lavasoft's spyware scanner, and I think that should do the trick for you. I have a 40 gig computer, and it doesn't take anywhere near that long to scan your HD with both programs.

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thechristelegacy

I use Nortan

nnxion

I don't use a virus scanner. Am I in danger?

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Berto

I dont use them either but when i do i use Panda.

http://www.pandasoftware.com/home/default.asp

its cheap and there is a free 30 day trial. It actually works really, well.

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Pizentios

all i have to say is bitdefender.

http://www.bitdefender.com

this is what i use at home, and at work, both on my desktops and my servers. Linux and Windows version avalible. Also they have a free online version, that uses activeX (yea i know) to scan your comp without any software installed. It's pretty slick.

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AVG anti-virus

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Avast 4.6 Home for AV
Blackice for firewall

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