What antivirus do you use?

[PAH]

given this weeks forum nasty

Which nasty was that? I didn't get any warning emails from Admin.

Was it the one that earlier in the week redirected from Google's CUK Forum link to MyStorage (or some such tulip)?

I have MSE and it didn't detect any problem. Very re-assuring.

So I deleted the VM (that I use solely for internet browsing) and copied over the backup I took when I created the VM.



They use Kasperski at work and on my work PC I often notice the ram being hogged by its AVP process, to the tune of 300mb.

Wouldn't be so bad if I had a recent/decent machine but as a contractor I'm stuck on a 4 year old PC with only 2gb ram (despite it supporting 4gb) and a fecking slow mechanical drive. Seriously tempted to upgrade the ram and slap in an SSD myself, even if it has to be on the quiet.

[d000hg]

If you have real-time scanning, and there are ~1 gazillion viruses out there, is it surprising your AV requires a few 100Mb of RAM?

Did you not check your VM to see if a nasty had got past MSE, out of interest?

[VectraMan]

I think I've only ever twice caught anything nasty, whereas anti-virus causes no end of problems. So really it's a question of which anti-virus gets in the way and pisses you off the least. And for that I'd say MSE.

[xoggoth]

How come? MSE can also balls up development work, common advice is not to do realtime scanning on your dev-folders, same goes for search indexing

Not scanning anything, I mean adb needed for Android emulator will not work with Bullguard installed even if every single thing in it, AV, firewall etc is turned off as here:

anddev.org • View topic - Beginner: ddms: Failed to initialize monitor thread

[Sysman]

I think I've only ever twice caught anything nasty, whereas anti-virus causes no end of problems. So really it's a question of which anti-virus gets in the way and pisses you off the least. And for that I'd say MSE.

I had something weird when I was in the throes of applying all the patches to a fresh Win7 installation last year. I simply zapped it and started again.

I've kept an up to date copy of WSUS Offline around since then so that I can at least get most of the patches in with the system disconnected.

[Platypus]

AV test seems to be panning MSE now, looks like its gone off the boil.

AV-TEST - The Independent IT-Security Institute: Nov/Dec 2011

I'm amazed to see BullGuard on that list. The last machine I found with that installed, I removed it, I thought it was a trojan. After it was gone, the machine starting behaving properly.

[vetran]

bullguard is one of the popular 'PC Hurled' (to describe the fate of most of their customers purchases) add ons. Buy £30 worth of AV to remove all of the junk that comes with the PC during manufacture.

[BrilloPad]

Interestingly I was just called to the house computer which I rarely go on. Avast was in a funny old state. I had to totally uninstall and reinstall.

[xoggoth]

We think an AV must be good when it pops up now and then and says "We have just saved your PC from total destruction" But maybe malicious software does not really exist and AV is all a con, like dentistry.

[Sysman]

We think an AV must be good when it pops up now and then and says "We have just saved your PC from total destruction" But maybe malicious software does not really exist and AV is all a con, like dentistry.

Going back a few years, but a former colleague was convinced that the antivirus companies were writing viruses themselves to keep up demand for their products.