Anti-Viral Software Recommendations?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday February 20, 2002 @07:07PM from the we've-been-getting-a-lot-of-these-lately dept.

Kris_J asks: "My InoculateIT Personal Edition anti-virus scanner will no longer be updated from around mid-March. I've really enjoyed this package, particularly the price (it's free for personal use). The company is complaining that so many new ways are being found for virii/worms/trojans to spread that they can't afford to keep the personal edition updated. Whatever. Does anyone have a recommendation for either a particular anti-virus package/bundle, or a good place for trusted, independant, reviews of anti-virus software, or even products to avoid. (If Zonealarm Pro was bundled with an anti-virus option I'd just get that.)" For those of you who have to deal with operating systems where viruses are a problem, what software do you use to detect them and weed them out? How about software that will scan your entire network?

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Re:I don't use windows, but by pmsr · 2002-02-21 00:33 · Score: 2, Funny

Could it be it uses imperial, not metric measures? Two pounds of UDP packets, one pound of icmp unreachable packets ... you get the idea.

/Pedro
I use McAfee by Eigenray · 2002-02-21 04:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Unfortunately, I can't tell you what I think of it.
Uh oh, by telling you I use it you might assume that I think it's great, so let me tell you right now that may or may not be the case.