I am about to buy a new antivirus and I am wanting to know your guys reviews over the following 3 that I am thinking about buying.
Bit defender V10 antivirus
Norton 2007 antivirus
Trend micro 2007 antivirus
Keep in mind this is for vista home premium.
Ive heard that bit defender bogs down your computer pretty bad.. what do you think..
Thanks!
2007-07-13 12:13:34 · 12 answers · asked by ★Eric Hilton☆ 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
norton
its easy and works
2007-07-13 12:16:39 · answer #1 · answered by FL๑Яida GЯL ♥♥♥ 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-08-29 12:55:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antivirus is only good as the files that have been produced.
in reality once a virus is released, there is usually a 24-72 lag before a antivirus is produced. if you update is not done before you recieve the virus no antivirus software will catch the first one.
The is a group of hackers that have banded together to release many viruses to overload the programmers that created the anti viruses.
The ratings you see above, are based on catching the already detected ones.
they all rate 0 for first line defense.
The best way not to have a email virus get you is use a email client like Thunderbird that is not tied into windows and can not automatically releases a attachment.
The other is to disable Java script but it really makes it hard to use a lot of sites if that is done.
2007-07-13 14:13:23 · answer #3 · answered by BJ Freeman sic itur ad astra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purchased Active (full time) Virus Protection
NOD32 is said to use the least system resources.
http://reviews.cnet.com
User Rating out of 10
Avast Antivirus 4.7 Home Edition....8.6
AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional..... 9.1
BitDefender Antivirus 10 ...............5.2
CA Internet Security Suite 2007.......2.5
F-Secure .......................no user ratings
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 ....................5.8
McAfee VirusScan 8.0...................... 5.0
McAfee Total Protection...............3.2
NOD32 2.5.............................. 9.1
Norton Internet Security 2007.......... 3.8
Norton 360 ----------- 5.8
Sophos Anti-Virus 3.7...................... 8.6
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007...... 6.7
Windows Live OneCare ..................8.0
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 7 ... 5.2
PC World: Top Antivirus Software
January 25, 2006
http://www.pcworld.com/article/124475-1/article.html
Best to worst order.
(note advertising revenue often effects review outcomes of magazines)
BitDefender 9 Standard
McAfee VirusScan 2006
Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0
F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006
Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006
Panda Software Panda Titanium 2006 Antivirus + Antispyware
AntiVir Personal Edition Classic 6.32
Alwil Software Avast Home Edition 4.6
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security Security 2006
Grisoft AVG Free Edition 7.1
2007-07-13 12:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You might want to see if Avast will work with Vista. Avast is free to use for personal computers. I recently bought a subscription to McAfee. What a pain that was, had to removes the Norton with the Norton Un-Install tool. I ended up going right back to Avast. Good Luck!
2007-07-13 12:21:11 · answer #5 · answered by Cathy S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
norton is one of the top but i would save my money go to cnet first and download avast as far as i'm concerned the best and free they also have a paid vertion they will let you try free for 10 days this is a used computer whitch unfortunatly came with trojen i tried several they couldn't get rid of it avast free got it where the others failed
2007-07-13 14:16:51 · answer #6 · answered by witchstar 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you ever read Yahoo Answers you will see people writing for help because they have a virus. They then say that they have one of the products you have listed above installed.
It makes you wonder why anyone bothers to install anti-virus software since it doesn't seem to work for lots of people.
2007-07-13 12:20:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Avast professional edition.
2007-07-13 14:15:43 · answer #8 · answered by ExpERT. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOne
AVG
AVAST
Mcafee
They Are Much Better Pick Only One.
2007-07-13 12:58:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, try using AVG(Grisoft) and you are right, bit defender is crap
2007-07-13 12:17:18 · answer #10 · answered by firebolt 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋