Which of the following do you recommend for anti-virus ware?

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I apologize for not responding to the kind replies. I crashed OE6, and just
got it back up and running. I can't wait to read what has been posted!

Thanks,
Dan Hacker

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"rubyjack" <rubyjack@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
> NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install (all
> legit, I have some on hand).
>
> Norton SystemWorks
> Norton 360
> MacAfee 2007
> Panda 2007
> Kaspersky 6.0
>
> Your help would be appreciated,
> Dan Hacker
>
> --
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> Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
> forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
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>
>
 
Kinda makes his comments suspect, doesn't it?


Dan

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"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
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> "The Symantec Corporate installations are pirated."
> Am I missing something?
> Or are you admitting to theft?
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "Virus Guy" <Virus@Guy.com> wrote in message
> news:47251C38.EFE7D73B@Guy.com...
> > RJK wrote:
> >
> >> ...above this post a little, you said that you are yourself
> >> using an older version of NAV,
> >
> > I manage about a dozen PC's. On most of them, I either have NAV
> > 2002,
> > or Symantec corporate (version 8 I think). I've only ever paid for
> > 1
> > copy of NAV 2002, and that was at a swap meet in 2003. The Symantec
> > Corporate installations are pirated.
> >
> > On my own 2 PC's, I've allowed my NAV 2002 to expire (I've
> > uninstalled
> > them to stop them from nagging me about their expired status). All
> > it
> > takes to re-activate them is to copy the file
> > "catalog.livesubscribe"
> > from any of the other systems that haven't expired yet.
> >
> > I also run a real time registry monitor made by "The Cleaner" (also
> > a
> > bootlegged copy).
> >
> >> ...here on this part of this thread - you pointed out that viruses
> >> like "storm" have been deactivating AV programs,
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> ...so you are aware of this danger, and yet you are using an
> >> ancient a/v program !
> >
> > The age of the program is not relavent - and might even be an
> > advantage. The Storm "thing" has a built-in list of process names
> > that it looks for. Using an old (ancient) piece of AV software
> > might
> > be an advantage - assuming that the same process name isin't being
> > used in more modern versions. And even though NAV 2002 is old, it
> > updates itself via Symantec's "LiveUpdate" with the most current
> > virus
> > definitions and scan engine.
> >
> >> ...malware that's programmed to deactivate AV software is just
> >> one of the reasons that many major AV application software
> >> vendors, (like AVG), are continually modifying their core
> >> files !
> >
> > What they need to do is give their program modules different names
> > (random process names) so that things like Storm can't identify them
> > at run time.
> >
> >> ...and this is one aspect of the "preventing malware /
> >> multi-layered internet security approach,"
> >
> > I run win-98 on my systems. That's the most effective "layer" going
> > (besides running Linux or Mac OS I guess).
> >
> > It's a lot harder to run a root-kit on Windows 9x, and it's a way
> > easier to identify, and delete malware on a win-98 box (fat-32 makes
> > things easier compared to NTFS). In the 8 years we've been running
> > win-98 on most of our systems, I think there have only been 2
> > infections, and those were prior to 2004. In fact, our win-98
> > systems
> > were directly facing the internet (no firewall, no NAT router) up
> > until the end of 2005 and none were ever hit with a network worm,
> > port-scan, etc. We've had about 1/2 dozen occurrances of malware on
> > our handful of NT and 2K machines over the same time frame.
>
 
Wow! The first message that actually attempts to answer my question.

I don't think I'll go out and buy Kaspersky 7.0 since I have a brand new,
uninstalled copy of 6.0. I had been leaning toward K6.0 based on other
things I heard. Norton SystemWorks has done right by me, but they want $40
for another year's license. K6.0 costs me nothing to install (I got it
early this year for $0 thanks to a Staples rebate).

But this Anti-Hacker thing has got me a bit worried :-)


Dan Hacker

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"Luke" <luke.skinner@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Go for Kasperspy... nice and easy. Anti Spam. Virus. Malware. Anti Spy.
Anti
> Hacker and Proactive Defence.
> Plus another good thing is its not a memory hog. 0-1% at all times...
during
> scans its about 5% of CPU. It does updates everyhour to make sure your up
to
> date. And you dont need to do it , automatic and even when it updates it
> takes minutes! No restart or anything. When i had norton i had 5 different
> infections (viruses, Adware and trojans). suposidly norton "Deleted"
them...
> lol. When i got kasperspy it quarintined them all :) . And no i didnt
> quarintime them in norton... before you say thats why they were there.
>
> PS: kasperspy 7 is out now. And its easy to get around and it looks much
> nicer than before! SUPER SMILEY :)
>
> luke
>
>
>
>
> "rubyjack" <rubyjack@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
> news:e0bMGX%23FIHA.6068@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
> > NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install
(all
> > legit, I have some on hand).
> >
> > Norton SystemWorks
> > Norton 360
> > MacAfee 2007
> > Panda 2007
> > Kaspersky 6.0
> >
> > Your help would be appreciated,
> > Dan Hacker
> >
> > --
> >
> > -----------
> > Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
> > forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
> > -----------
> >
> >
>
 
Yuuchhhh! Thanks for the warning.

Dan

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"Kayman" <kaymanNoSpam@operamail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:22:47 -0000, Luke wrote:
>
> > Go for Kasperspy... nice and easy.
>
> Yeah, right!
>
>
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?s=cad8c5e5fe1e837e5e82ead4e1719018&showtopic=14995&st=500
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...sult&cd=1&q=chkdsk+problem++kaspersky&spell=1
 
NOD32 is the best


"rubyjack" wrote:

> I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
> NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install (all
> legit, I have some on hand).
>
> Norton SystemWorks
> Norton 360
> MacAfee 2007
> Panda 2007
> Kaspersky 6.0
>
> Your help would be appreciated,
> Dan Hacker
>
> --
>
> -----------
> Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
> forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
> -----------
>
>
>
 
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:00 -0700, Soroush
<Soroush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>NOD32 is the best

So is ice cream.
 
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:37:24 GMT, Straight Talk wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:00 -0700, Soroush
> <Soroush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>NOD32 is the best
>
> So is ice cream.

Only if it's chocolate flavored :-)
 
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:34:00 -0700, Soroush <Soroush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>NOD32 is the best
>
>
>"rubyjack" wrote:
>
>> I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
>> NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install (all
>> legit, I have some on hand).
>>
>> Norton SystemWorks
>> Norton 360
>> MacAfee 2007
>> Panda 2007
>> Kaspersky 6.0
>>
>> Your help would be appreciated,
>> Dan Hacker
>>

I'm a novice in this domain - but I suspect like most things - the best depends on what week it is, the size of your
grandmother's left Wellington boot and the current position of my cat's tail.

I know that's not helpful, but I thought I'd lighten us all up a little. I just got my first virus since I got my first
PC in 1984, aren't I lucky.

>> --
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>> -----------
>> Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
>> forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
>> -----------
>>
>>
>>
 
"Soroush" <Soroush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> NOD32 is the best
>
>
> "rubyjack" wrote:
>
>> I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
>> NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install
>> (all
>> legit, I have some on hand).
>>
>> Norton SystemWorks
>> Norton 360
>> MacAfee 2007
>> Panda 2007
>> Kaspersky 6.0
>>
>> Your help would be appreciated,
>> Dan Hacker
>>
>> --
>>
>> -----------
>> Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
>> forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
>> -----------
>>
>>
>>


Yes, definitely NOD32, although Kaspersky is good also. I would never
recommend anything Norton or McAfee.
I base my opinion on personal use of all these products.

C.B.


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and unfortunate among us.
 
"Soroush" <Soroush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> NOD32 is the best
>
>
> "rubyjack" wrote:
>
>> I have the following choices to install as anti-virus ware/suite (my
>> NortonWorks is expiring). The price ranges from $0 to $40 to install
>> (all
>> legit, I have some on hand).
>>
>> Norton SystemWorks
>> Norton 360
>> MacAfee 2007
>> Panda 2007
>> Kaspersky 6.0
>>
>> Your help would be appreciated,
>> Dan Hacker
>>
>> --
>>
>> -----------
>> Thousands of years ago cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never
>> forgotten this. -- Danbury Mint
>> -----------
>>
>>
>>

Almost a couple of years ago, my brother in Bournemouths' PC got his first
virus after many years of not getting one. He had been using ebay searching
for a laptop, and visited a computer "vendor's" ebay shop, ...and his PC
contracted malware from there. I can't remember the name of it now but,
his a/v+anti-spyware program, (after it's real-time scanner had obviously
failed to spot the malware), detected it but, couldn't deal with it properly
in Windows Normal mode. I had to travel to Bournemouth and deal with it.
I kept a note of the virus name but, do you think I can find it now - I
cannot !!

regards, Richard
 
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