Revenir said:
Revenir said:
Thothie_in_some_old_thread said:Generally I just run with AVG active, as it's the cleanest, lowest system hog - plus it's what I got my folks using, and if something's going to go wrong with it and make me drive out those 40 miles, I like to know ahead of time.
Bitdefender generally has a better virus library, but it's a bit more resource intensive, and their free version doesn't have as many features. I've been considering running it instead though, just since this new system is so mean, when it wants to work.
Norton and McAfee are just about useless these days. Trend Micro PCcillan is just a notch above them. Trend Micro has more extensive virus information than the others though, so if it finds one, you can generally read up on it right quick.
This is the first time Spyware Doctor has ever managed to catch anything for me. It does have some features the others don't (more robust malicious script and active-x detection while browsing). Plus it seems Lavasoft Adaware is rapidly becoming useless (all it ever seems to find is Cookies and MRU's). (I notice AVG can NOW detect this new virus, so it may just be that it hit Spyware Doctor's database first - it's brand new).
The program I like the most is a little proggy called HijackThis - but it's not a virus scanner per say, so much as it just finds every little hook on your system. It's up to you to figure out which ones are legit.
I've an encrypted library of 45 viruses I use to test these things. No one of these programs can find them all, but they are all found by one or more of them. Bitdefender thus far finds the most at 34, but AVG isn't too far behind at 32. Spyware Doctor finds 13 (two of which none of the others can find). Trend Micro finds 22, while Norton and McAfee find like 5 of them, last I checked, all of which are detected by the others.
