[RTC List] Choice of antivirus protection

[Winter Faulk]

I've used a number of different chooses over the years and for the
last five or so years I have been using Avast (http://www.avast.com)
it is free for home/personal use. I tried AVG about the same time that
I started using Avast. I stayed with Avast for a number of reasons,
Avast has a very nice boot time scan option witch I have yet to see
any any other AV software, Avast used less system resources to do the
same job, and Avast from my test and other test that I found around
the internet found more viruses then AVG at the time. A note from the
more resent tests AVG seems to find more viruses then Avast but I
think that AVG is still a resource hog, not as bad as the new McAfee
or any of the Symantec Nortons.

If you want some virus software that you need to pay for then I would
recommend F-Secure's AV software (http://www.f-secure.com/) From the
tests that I have see it is one of the best and is not as much of a
system hog as the others (McAfee, Nortons, etc..)

-Winter


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:57 AM,  <CrawfordCA at aol.com> wrote:
> Greetings all  ...
>
> I'd like to start a thread about different choices for antivirus protection
> on your Windows-based desktop or laptop computers. Long ago, I used Norton
> (from Symantec), then I switched to McAfee for a number of years, and now
> I'm looking for a better replacement.
>
> To get things rolling, I wrote a blog posting on this topic in May when I
> dumped McAfee and went shopping for substitute protection:
>
> http://www.tsblogs.com/techblog/2008/05/shopping_for_antivirus_softwar.html
>
> I am currently using a trial version of Microsoft's Live OneCare, that has
> too many flaws to keep as a long term solution.
>
> Any tips or recommendations are welcome, except for gratuitous gloating over
> having chosen Mac or Linux over the evil empire (Microsoft). Thanks for your
> consideration.
>
> Chris Crawford
> www.justiceserved.com
>
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