I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
which is the one that is a good antivirus?

-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-AVG Free

On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 08:30:03 -0800, edgarperrito wrote:

> -AVG Free

I never had a problem with AVG Free. I recommend it.

From www.eweek.com:

AV-Test, which tests anti-malware products, has been tracking the situation
closely and has, so far, analyzed 73 variants of malicious WMF files.
Products from the following companies have identified all 73:

a.. Alwil Software (Avast)
b.. Softwin (BitDefender)
c.. ClamAV
d.. F-Secure Inc.
e.. Fortinet Inc.
f.. McAfee Inc.
g.. ESET (Nod32)
h.. Panda Software
i.. Sophos Plc
j.. Symantec Corp.
k.. Trend Micro Inc.
l.. VirusBuster
These products detected fewer variants:
a.. 62 - eTrust-VET
b.. 62 - QuickHeal
c.. 61 - AntiVir
d.. 61 - Dr Web
e.. 61 - Kaspersky
f.. 60 - AVG
g.. 19 - Command
h.. 19 - F-Prot
i.. 11 - Ewido
j.. 7 - eSafe
k.. 7 - eTrust-INO
l.. 6 - Ikarus
m.. 6 - VBA32
n.. 0 - Norman


The difference for the more effective products is likely to be heuristic
detection, tracking the threat by identifying the basic techniques of the
exploit, rather than looking for specific patterns for specific exploits.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free
>

It depends on your computer specs. Previous versions of Panda Antivirus have
been excellent products, relatively lightweight and efficient, but the
latest uses alot of memory and may slow down your computer considerably. So
unless you have at least 512 mb of RAM and a relatively fast processor, I
would choose another antivirus.

Jon


"edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free
>

Forget them both...

The best one is www.avast.com it has a home personal free edition also!
It runs laps around AVG, and it saves you the money for panda (wich I
personaly dislike anyway)

Kenny www.computerboom.com


"edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free
>

edgarperrito wrote:

> I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant
> decide. which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free


You'll find proponents of both here, as well as others. I personally use and
like Avast.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

I use AVG because it's light on resources but from other reports Avast is
similar and also free. Neither will work on W2003 server versions though

Big difference between the AVG free and paid versions is stuff like
autoscheduling, picking scan folders etc... I would never expect any
difference in the detection signatures for any of them, just versatility.

Charlie


"edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free
>

I agree with Kenny, use Avast Free. AVG Free didn't detect a virus when I
used it so I dont't trust it
"edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>
> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
> -AVG Free
>

No AV product will catch every virus every time. All of them will miss one
at odd, unpredicatable times. Much depends on the definition file in use,
frequncy of updates, user habits, and program configuration. To base an
assessment on one missed bug would be like not using windows because it it
crashed once (hint: linux crashes too).

As to the question, there is no "best" AV product. To me, the "best" one is
the one that the user is comfortable with and provides a reasonable ease of
updating and use without bogging down the system.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Stu" <stu@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I agree with Kenny, use Avast Free. AVG Free didn't detect a virus when I
>used it so I dont't trust it
> "edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1E4BEBC1-BF67-4BF5-9A4E-80A4FA8B0FE3@microsoft.com...
>>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant
>>decide.
>> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>>
>> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
>> -AVG Free
>>
>
>

Doesn't matter which one you choose. Just recently, I had a customer
who was "Fully(?)" protected, if that's possible. He happened to pick
up what's called a "Zero Day Threat". That means a new virus that isn't
known to the AV companies and so it won't be in their definitions data.
Unless you have some type of "Suspicious" detection in your product,
you can get infected by these first day threats. By doesn't matter, what
I mean is all of them have exposure to new infectors. Personally, I use
both eTrust and AVG. Even with those, I'll run on-line scans from a
couple of different vendors every week or so. T

And to give credit where it's due the definitions and the Security center
(SARC) at Symantec are one of the best. That's probably the biggest
loss with moving away from Norton AV.

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ex3k4zwDGHA.3468@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> No AV product will catch every virus every time. All of them will miss one
> at odd, unpredicatable times. Much depends on the definition file in use,
> frequncy of updates, user habits, and program configuration. To base an
> assessment on one missed bug would be like not using windows because it it
> crashed once (hint: linux crashes too).
>
> As to the question, there is no "best" AV product. To me, the "best" one
> is the one that the user is comfortable with and provides a reasonable
> ease of updating and use without bogging down the system.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Stu" <stu@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uTBKYHwDGHA.3004@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>I agree with Kenny, use Avast Free. AVG Free didn't detect a virus when I
>>used it so I dont't trust it
>> "edgarperrito" <edgarperrito@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1E4BEBC1-BF67-4BF5-9A4E-80A4FA8B0FE3@microsoft.com...
>>>I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant
>>>decide.
>>> which is the one that is a good antivirus?
>>>
>>> -Panda Antivirus Platinum
>>> -AVG Free
>>>
>>
>>
>
>