Virus protection

DarkHououmon · **Reply #20 on:** November 12, 2007, 07:51:20 PM

I removed Norton as well as AVG (I was recommended to remove both; if I could I would have kept AVG). I did a scan with Panda and it detected 30 viruses, a lot more than what Norton ever found. And yes I've noticed a change in speed. Not sure how much faster it is now though.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #21 on:** November 12, 2007, 09:10:17 PM

Norton really slows down the computer. I would recommend a registry clean asap to get rid of the extra crap it has added to your registry. Panda isn't as good as avg, but it's pretty close. It's a lot better than Norton though, that's for sure. I believe that AVG is the best because #1, it's free and #2, it runs in the background, but unlike Norton and many other anti-virus systems, it doesn't take up 35% of your computers processing speed to do it!

: However, AVG's anti-spyware has a protection program that always runs in the background. It's called "guard.exe" in the task manager and you can't end it. It takes 2.4ghz of processing power! I'd rather have the spyware than the Guard.exe program!

: Does your panda come with anti-spyware too or is it just the anti-virus edition? BTW, it is never a good idea to have more than one anti-virus system on your computer at one time. That's why you were advised to remove them. Also, unless you manually update AVG, it's useless. If panda found more than avg did, then it's probably cuz AVG wasn't updated. Even when it says it's updated, it's not. You have to manually do it. It may be a pain in the you know what, but it does provide the best protection. I'm not suggesting you switch. Panda is fine (not to mention that you paid for it). I would get panda, but I'm too cheap and AVG is better so long as you can spend 2 hours a week keeping it up to date manually. B)

DarkHououmon · **Reply #22 on:** November 12, 2007, 09:17:20 PM

It seems to have an antispyware and anti-adware too, because the scan picked up both, along with the viruses.

Manny Cav · **Reply #23 on:** November 12, 2007, 10:00:33 PM

Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Nov 12 2007 on 07:10 PM

Also, unless you manually update AVG, it's useless. If panda found more than avg did, then it's probably cuz AVG wasn't updated. Even when it says it's updated, it's not. You have to manually do it. It may be a pain in the you know what, but it does provide the best protection. I'm not suggesting you switch. Panda is fine (not to mention that you paid for it). I would get panda, but I'm too cheap and AVG is better so long as you can spend 2 hours a week keeping it up to date manually. B)

I may have been convinced to switch from Norton, were it not for this.

Littlefoot · **Reply #24 on:** November 13, 2007, 12:30:12 AM

Panda protection since 2007 is the one of the most powerful and trusted antivirus/antispyware yet. Norton antivirus took a lot of resources for nothing, in major cases it register for example 10 viruses and then you notice that it only delete 6 of them and the other 4 it send it to the quarantine because it can't find a solution or can't delete it. Avast antivirus is a good antivirus protection if you have a mini-network in your house because it is built in firewall, e-mail filter and network firewall but you have to sacrifice performance and speed.

Avg antivirus (free edition) is just to a temporary solution it doesn't detect many of critical spyware malware. I tested it before in computers with critical infections and it doesn't work. Every day I have customer in the store with the same story, a friend recommend me to download this free antivirus but my computer is not working, I think is not a virus because I have this antivirus, when I scan it with Stinger (good portable minor virus removal tool from Macafee) and Panda Removal (another removal tool ).

I found some viruses and then this is when I decide to use Panda full to make a deep scan and found usually more than 30 viruses. The worse case I had was 15 viruses in system files and 940 viruses in files, since that for me avg is nothing in comparison to Panda.

I recommend Panda to Kacie and she can tell her experience with Panda against AVG or Norton!

Everyone has their preferences. I am not intended to make anyone to switch, just giving my opinion from my experiences.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #25 on:** November 13, 2007, 12:48:35 AM

AVG is the best anti-VIRUS, but it does nothing against spyware, hackers, spam, or adware. I use spybot search and destroy for other than virus protection on clients computers. I typically secure my own computer and I don't like relying on other programs if I don't have to. AVG and spybot are the best for people short on cash. B)

I have also rigged panda to run on my computer even though I have avg. It is the best at getting rid of everything else besides viruses.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #26 on:** November 13, 2007, 12:56:20 AM

AVG has blocked some viruses from the computer, but anytime a scan was done, it never detected anything. Norton detects some things, but only about 4 or 6 at most.

Panda on the other hand not only detected far more viruses than either combined, it also alerts me when it has detected something and removes it rather than just quaratine it like AVG does.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #27 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:14:47 AM

With AVG, manual removal of viruses is frequently required. AVG's resistant shield is better than Pandas though. Once, I found 4,872 viruses on a clients computer. That's my current record. They were a porn addict.

: Sometimes you have to manually remove with Panda too though so watch out for non healed items. Looking up the file in the specified directory and deleting it manually is the fix for items it can't solve.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #28 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:22:37 AM

I can still safely say that Panda has done a better job with detecting and removing the viruses than AVG did. And what do you mean by manually update? Then what's the point of the program going "AVG has updated!" if it really hadn't?

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #29 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:34:25 AM

In the menu when it says that it was "notified", it didn't really do anything. You have to go to the location and manually delete it:

And no, AVG does not automatically update. Manual updates are always required for maximum protection.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #30 on:** November 13, 2007, 01:38:27 AM

Ah I see.

Nimrod · **Reply #31 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:24:37 AM

I personally use Kapersky. It¥s the best in the europian stores here.

. And I am very proud with it.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #32 on:** November 13, 2007, 02:25:22 AM

I must admit it. I've never tried that. I'll go do that tomorrow!

Petrie. · **Reply #33 on:** November 13, 2007, 11:51:12 PM

Quote from: Nimrod,Nov 13 2007 on 01:24 AM

I personally use Kapersky. It¥s the best in the europian stores here. . And I am very proud with it.

I've never heard anything bad about that one. Can't afford to pay for it though.

Manny Cav · **Reply #34 on:** November 14, 2007, 12:00:45 AM

If Norton is as bad as everyone is making out, then I might consider replacing it. However, with AVG's lack of auto-updates and it's limited protection against various other threats covered by Norton, I'm not interested in that one. Panda sounds promising. I'd like to know a little more about it, like cost, what type of threats it covers, etc. I'm not beyond making changes if they can make real improvements.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #35 on:** November 14, 2007, 12:04:44 AM

http://www.pandasecurity.com/ You can find out more about Panda here.

Keni · **Reply #36 on:** November 14, 2007, 09:55:48 AM

I use McAfee. I used to have Norton but using that antivirus program was such a nightmare, especially when I used to play Final Fantasy XI.

Nimrod · **Reply #37 on:** November 14, 2007, 03:31:29 PM

There is a Final Fantasy XI for computer? I never heard about that. :huh: . I play all my Final Fantasys on my PS2^^

Manny Cav · **Reply #38 on:** November 14, 2007, 06:35:04 PM

I just had a trojan horse incident today. My brother was using my computer when Norton all of the sudden told him that there was an infection. He called me over (I'm the one everyone calls over for tech help in my family

) and informed me. I logged out of his account, logged into mine, then scanned the files I suspected were infected, and sure enough, they were. This is odd, because I've had these files for a few months, now, and Norton never made any complaints on them, and then, all of the sudden, it screamed "Trojan Horse!" "High risk!" I sent copies of the files over to another computer with a different version of Norton, and it reached the same conclusion -- infected files. I destroyed all copies of the files.

It really whomps to have a virus alert.

Keni · **Reply #39 on:** November 14, 2007, 09:19:05 PM

Quote from: Nimrod,Nov 14 2007 on 02:31 PM

There is a Final Fantasy XI for computer? I never heard about that. :huh: . I play all my Final Fantasys on my PS2^^

Yup, Final Fantasy XI is an MMORPG so it's also on computer. Final Fantasy XI is also on PS2 and Xbox 360. If you probably heard of Final Fantasy XI I'm a bit surprised you didn't know it's also on computer XD