RE: [OT] Anti-virus / anti-spyware other essential programs?

["Steve Healey" <steve.healey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using Kaspersky for a couple of years with no problems, also
run
CA Anti Virus on my Vista machine.



Jumping onto the bandwagon - those who already run Windows Home Server, can
I ask what AV software are you using?  I know that under all the pretty
front end is a Windows 2003 core but will it run any AV or has MS decided
to
only allow their 'preferred' solutions?



Cheers,



Steve



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Vargster
Sent: 06 February 2008 22:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Anti-virus / anti-spyware other essential
programs?



I'm half with you there, I've been using free AVG for 4-5 years, but I
recently switched to free Avast! after a review in PC Pro and few missed
nasties... Avast seems to be doing the job, and has a smaller footprint and
many fewer processes running on the box..

LOL or you could try Linux and forget about all this nonsense... :)

On Feb 6, 2008 6:34 PM, Andy Davies <dajdavies@xxxxxxx
<mailto:dajdavies%40gmail.com>
> wrote:

> I switched to Nod32 when AVG failed to pick up a trojan last year...
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 5:56 PM, Martin Howell <martin.howell@xxxxxxx
<mailto:martin.howell%40grizelli.com>
<martin.howell%40grizelli.com>>
> wrote:
> > I'd vote for AVG, been using it for several years now with no
problems.
> > I would also recommend running some anti-spyware stuff as well -
I use
> > Ad-aware and Spybot, because they both seem to catch different
things
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > Ho Yin Ng wrote:
> > > I need to upgrade / reinstall and basically reformat all my
computers
> > > at home. Everything is going t*ts up.
> > >
> > > Main main computer only boots up when it wants to, I can't
get access
> > > to my NAS on others no matter what I do. Bascially it all
needs
> > > resetting!
> > >
> > > Since I am doing this I thought I might as well get all the
essential
> > > programs in on my computers.
> > >
> > > 1. Can someone recommend a good antivirus-spyware program?
Is the AVG
> > > malware any good?
> > >
> > > Anything else people would recommend as must haves? I was
thinking
> > > about getting something like drivermagic to manage all my
drivers and
> > > download updates, and perhaps Norton Ghost so when
everything goes
> > > t*ts up again I can just restore the systems?
> > >
> > > Running Windows XP.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ho Yin
> > >
>
>

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