Bad anti virus site?

The bottom line is.. you are posting on a public web board... the people on here are most likely not professional technicians and/or not professional information security professionals (like myself), etc.. and are many times providing biased advice that has no basis in reality and is oftentimes (as you have unfortunately found out) is malicious in nature.

The best possible solution for 99.9% of the people posting on this site is to invest in a proper security suite that includes complete protection (antivirus, firewall, antispyware, etc) and nis from preferably one RELIABLE vendor (like McAfee or Norton) and is properly configured and kept completely up to date...

this coupled with current windows updates, safe browsing habits and above all... common sense. That's it.

You don't need a bunch of freeware junk or anyhting else... just one good suite that is properly maintained and some common sense.

Good Luck

Northon is craps 1)it is expensive 2)a lot of times it says it delete the virus and if you scan again its there.3)it is slow 4)it takes a lot memory 5)not so good at virus detection(as avg,kaspersky ) the best is kaspersky nod 32 isnt so good i give it a trie and i disappointed it dint catch virus that avg founds!(tha hapens with northon also.mcaffe is good but it hasnt automatic updates you go in the web site and craps>>the best free is AVG 7.5,the best paid one is KASPERSKY 6)it has updates 1 a week (norton)7)also i may delets system files as erros(and destroy your pc)

Thanks. I won't go on that site. I would only download trusted applications directly from their Web site. Avira is probably the best free anti-virus though.

I have researched all anti-virus products and the best anti-virus protection is Kaspersky. Kaspersky is the best all-round anti-virus program. NOD32 is just as good if not better, it runs faster and has less software conflicts but may be more difficult to use.

The most popular free anti-virus programs (AVG and Avast) have poor detection rates (82.82%, 87.46% respectively). Norton is notoriously bloated and takes forever to perform full systems scans.

Recent tests prove Kaspersky and NOD32 are better than the best sellers Norton and McAfee (av-comparatives.org).

hey rook thanks for the warning .

1. Download and run firefox to protect your from future spyware attacks and pop ups which are coming in through internet explorer (Trojan downloaders, win32 ) .Then update your windows through firefox http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/2007/05...

2. Run the vundo and combo fix http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/2007/05...

3. Run the anti spyware remove programs spybot http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/2007/03... and superantispyware http://securitynewsfromthenet.blogspot.com/2007/04... to get rid of the nasties

4. Run a complete scan with Dr web

http://download.drweb.com/win/

The best protection for your computer is a 3-tiered approach: anti-spyware software, anti-virus software, and a firewall.

http://www.lavasoft.com/support/spywareeducationce...