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For cleaning out malware, unless I was packing software with me, I'd do a scan with housecall.trendmicro.com. It does Linux too. NOD32>/a> is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Now I am not sure if Vista has a similar registry setup (hopefully not), but my first move would be to fire up msconfig, go to the start up tab, and fire away at anything that doesn't look too critical while crossing my fingers. Make sure to cross your fingers!

My favorites: For online scans, housecall.trendmicro.com is your way to go. Does Linux too. NOD32 is the most impressive Windows scanner I've found. For cleaning out and managing the registry, you want JV16 Power Tools, but running msconfig's the quickest way to clean the crap out of the registry as you don't need anything to download. Be careful though...

Seems no one is giving serious answers so i guess i will be the only one

Freeware or open source software:
01. Firefox, http://www.getfirefox.com/
02. Winamp, http://www.winamp.com/
03. Miranda, http://www.miranda-im.org/
04. Media Player Classic, http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
05. ffdshow, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/FFDShow.htm
06. CDBurnerXp Pro, http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
07. Daemon-tools, http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
08. uTorrent, http://www.utorrent.com/
09. XnView, http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.htm l
10. ExactAudioCopy, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
11. Dev-C++, http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
12. 7-zip, http://www.7-zip.org/
13. Real Alternative, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternati ve.htm
14. QuickTime Alternative, http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alte rnative.htm
15. Process Explorer, http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/processexplo rer.html
16. Uniform Server, http://www.uniformserver.com/
17. nLite, http://www.nliteos.com/ (sp+hotfix+driver slipstreaming and ability to remove almost anything from the windows installation disc, including wmp, ie, drivers, services, etc, you can get your windows install disc down to 180MB with a 70MB RAM footprint after boot).

Commercial/Shareware software.
01. NOD32, http://www.nod32.com/ - simply the best antivirus software out there
02. Cinema4D, http://www.maxoncomputer.com/ Great modelling/rendering program (also available for OS X)
03. mIRC, http://www.mirc.com/ not the best irc client, but it has a tiny memory footprint/feature ratio
04. Directory Opus, http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ replace Explorer with a far better file manager.
05. UltraEdit, http://www.ultraedit.com/ great editor for many textbased formats
06. Visual Studio, http://microsoft.com/
07. Nero Burning ROM. http://www.ahead.de/ my burning program of choice

By the way, the article is about release times ;).

http://www.nod32.com/ is what you're looking for.

Having had to use and support enough Microsoft crap over the years, I consider it to be suspicious that there's a "problem" appearing after Microsoft introduces a competing product.

Although I am sure that Microsoft's anti-virus/anti-spyware uses less CPU and memory, what with all the undocumented Windows features which were mysteriously used in their software.

I was with you till you said this, which clearly shows you've never used it. It was originally Giant anti-spyware, Microsoft bought it. Microsoft antispyware is a very good product, and usually the one I use last in a scan to clean up what the others missed. It is however very sluggish, and asks the user too many questions that they don't know how to answer, with a big 'ACCEPT' or 'BLOCK' button underneath.

Guess which one they always press?

Their anti-virus is Kaspersky, because they bought that too. Kaspersky is the only antivirus besides Nod I would use, but Nod is faster I think and also still independently owned.

You should really check out Eset's Nod32 http://www.nod32.com/home/home.htm and their success rate on Virus Bulletin (the de-facto standard in AV testing) http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vend or=VE14
login&passwd: lazyboy05 (from bugmenot.com)

for a quick summary of VB 100% results for "major" AV vendors:
Eset (nod32): 36 Success / 3 Failure / 5 No Entry
Symantec: 30 Success / 7 Failure / 7 No Entry
Trend Micro: 13 Success / 7 Failure / 24 No Entry
Kaspersky: 31 Success / 13 Failure / 0 No Entry
McAfee: 24 Success / 18 Failure / 2 No Entry
Panda: 1 Success / 3 Failure / 40 No Entry
Alwil(Awast): 16 Success / 19 Failure / 9 No Entry
Grisoft(AVG): 11 Success / 21 Failure / 12 No Entry
F-secure: 21 Success / 12 Failure / 11 No Entry
Sophos: 31 Success / 12 Failure / 1 No Entry

Nod32 not only has the best detection engine, its the fastest AV too! ..sorry if Im too exited about this particular product, but it just wipes the floor with "the best" you've found. ..and all the other competition :))

Folks on Broadband Reports' security forum are raving over NOD32 over AVG, AntiVir, KAV, etc.

show of hands, how many of you have seen Norton stop being enabled at startup for no apparent reason? How many of you have found a virus norton either A. cant remove, or B. cant find. Ever noticed how much memory it takes up even when you're not running a scan? How many friends and family do you know who have just let their protection expire because their subscription renewal service was too laborious to slog through?

They've got the cart several miles ahead of the horse, and its sad because way back in the day, Norton was truly a great product. Unfortunately it has become a Frankenstein's monster of bloated ineffectiveness, and it shows no hint of reversing the trend. I'll stick with http://www.nod32.com/ for now.

You don't need security patches if you simply uninstall the problematic applications and replace them with better alternatives and installing some top-of-the-line antivirus software. And yes, everyone should use some sort of antivirus, as it's only common courtesy, considering the fact that Linux users are bound to have some friends that use Windows and sometimes communicate via e-mail.
Seriously, even something as simple as a .jpg or .png file can cause serious issues in Windows, so why not have the decency to catch such files and stop them from being spread all over?

I've heard a lot of good things about NOD32 http://www.nod32.com/. Its a product you gotta pay for, and it runs on windows. It doesn't seem to have the bloat that Symantec or Mcafee has. They have a free trial, so it may be worth looking at. Another good one is Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/. You will definately want to check out what they have for management options.

Now someone mod me down cause I didn't tell them to switch to linux.

We are born with an immune-system. Computers are born with the equivalent to AIDS: Immune Deficiency Syndrome, but in their case it is ABSOLUTE Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

And there are a couple of gotchas in the parent's cosmology, it seems:

One doesn't know if one's system is infected just because one hasn't connected to the 'net "raw". . . ( if you want to "know" something, test it correctly )

Firewalls are circumventable ( i.e. have bugs, and such are exploited ).

Software is sometimes accidentally distributed already-infected ( Microsoft did it with one of their CDs, manufactured in an infected factory, IIRC ).

Using recordable media means ( if one exchanges information between systems, or between infected previous-install and current not-yet-infected install, for instance ) risk. . .

Etc.

And. . . Trusted Computing can also pertain to INDEPENDENT, INTEGRITY-DRIVEN comparative-reviews, eh?

Virus Bulletin used-to-have visible to anyone archives ( I think they changed that, some time ago ), and back-a-year-or-two ago it was Eset & Vet ( http://www.nod32.com/ and http://www.vet.com.au/ ) who were the ones to beat. Vet won if simplicity was a factor, as Eset apparently has one gazillion config microsettings
( and also, it wasn't possible to buy Eset online if one was running Linux, last time I tried: one HAD to be using MS-Windoze + MS Browser to buy it, but they apparently contracted-out their net-purchase-system, so it wasn't Eset that did that, it was whomever their contractor-company that enforced non-secure system to purchase Eset )

Anyways. . Oh! they've boshed privacy entirely! now one MUST register/login to view the awards at all, eh?

Ah well, they USED to offer good independent information to us, anyways. . .
Here's the only page it seems they allow anonymous reading of:
http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/this_month/index. xml

if you've a throwaway e-mail address, maybe you can see if they're worth anything nowadays, on their "100% Award", which is an award given to all AV progs that defeat 100% of all the in the wild viruses they sic on 'em. . .

Just so you know, there's about a zillion free-for-home-use Linux antivirus applications. F-prot and Panda are just two of them. Personally, I run NOD32 on both Windows and Linux, but it aint free. It's good to see McAfee with a no-setup-drama on-access scanner though.

There are alot of problems this has with Antivirus and firewall programs. See here for a list.

I'm not sure why NOD32's Internet Monitor affects a DESKTOP search. But I can't use it as long as I'm using my AV program of choice. Does this make sense to anyone? Because I can't figure it out.

BTW: this has been a known issue for a few months now.

Microsoft run NOD32 in-house for their antivirus. The equivalent cost for a Debian system would be nil (if they used clamav) or about the same (if they stuck with NOD32).

• For a better antivirus, use NOD32 instead (they never missed a single virus in 6 consecutive years).
  
• For better anti-spam software, use POPfile instead (and it's free)
  
• For anti-spyware, use Spybot instead (and it's free)
  
• For firewall, use ZoneAlarm instead (and it can be free)
  

These are not in the right order, just threw em up there as i thought of them.

After installing all the appropriate device drivers, the first ten items on my list would be -

1. Symantec Drive Image 2. OpenOffice.org 3. Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 4. NOD32 Anti-Virus 5. PestPatrol 6. iolo System Mechanic 7. WinRAR 8. Mozilla Firefox 9. UltraEdit 10. Nero Burning ROM

(I've never used this antivirus program so take my words with a grain of salt)

From what I've heard/read, NOD Antivirus uses hieuristics instead of pattern definitions to detect viruses, so it will almost always catch a brand-new in-the-wild virus.

Symantec - yeesh, where to begin - it destabilizes and slows down any computer it's installed on. To be fair it does a halfway decent job at detecting viruses if you keep it updated, but Eset Nod32 is a much much better piece of software. I love the new version - it automatically installs with what I think are the best possible defaults, then stays out of your way for a year until it's time to subscribe again.

I agree with the poster when he (or she) said Get a clue. Just because you can write code doesn't mean you understand economics.

Anyone who can't see past the words anti and trust are missing the point completely. For too long, McAfee and Symantec have produced inferior, bloated, virus scanners. Combine their personal firewall and anti-spam software, along with one of their anti-virus packages, and you've just blown nearly 32 megabytes of RAM on UI enhancements.

NOD32 works so much better, and in a smaller, less bloated interface. Yes, you also have to pay for it, and it's not a well-known big name company. However, you won't find a better anti-virus package on the planet. Check out their awards here.

If Microsoft wants to bundle this stuff with SP2, then I'm all for it. Free, and forced down your throat so the majority of moronic users stop getting their boxes infected by the latest worm-du-jour.

Yep. Amavis-New on Postfix with NOD32 and SpamAssassin for us.

Eset NOD32

I've been using it for about 2 months now after dealing with an IE virus. It's done a great job so far without any decrease in performance.

Probably just as a coincidence, what google returns on 55808:
"A new worm, W32/Vote.A hit the streets yesterday (09/24/01), ..."

According to various virus sites, this worm has a payload site of 55808 bytes and is trying to download a trojan.

NOD32 is a very nice AntiVirus solution for about a billion different platforms. Too bad they charge different prices for Linux Server version vs Linux Client version - it's exactly the same software. What's up with that?

Testing version has been available for about a year now and "production" release is now avialable for trial and purchase.

And my experience: So far I'm testing previous development release and it works.

There is no immediately obvious way to edit a post and I know it's bad form to reply to your own post but here we go:

The other day, I had the owner of a company come close to reading me his company credit card number OVER A CELL PHONE! I shut him up politely and got the number from his accountant. I was buying antivirus software for him... Eset Nod32, it's very good, you should check it out: nod32.

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NAV and McAfee both suck, especially the latter--Norton may also be a processor hogging pile of bloated crap but at least it detects viruses.

People, you should check out NOD32. It has won an improbable number of Virus Bulletin 100% awards, it's affordable, and it runs just fine without slowing down a reasonably modern system.

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http://www.eset.sk/ (page in slovak)

http://www.nod32.com/index.html (page in english)