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

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did see a reference to a PC Pro review, however they failed to
mention
that AVG 8 is almost here and addresses many of the user interface issues
and has a rewritten (faster) scanning engine. I've not had time to fire up
the AVG 8 beta yet, but by all accounts on the reseller chain so far it is
very good, so it might be worth the wait.

The free AVG is only checking for viruses, however there are many
categories
of "nasty", if you took the Internet Security version rather than
the free
version, then you would be watching for all current nasties whether
categorised as virus, spyware or malware (personally I think they should
watch for all issues, but I guess there's marketing and up-selling to
consider!)

Despite what others say, you're not 100% safe with a Mac or Linux though,
it's just that Windows is the easier target at the moment.

Alex

-----Original Message-----
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> 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<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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