Antivirus advice urgently needed....

Quote from Wood474:

Hey,

I have 6 pc's in my house. Sounds crazy, but wife, kids and stuff and they ain't touching mine!

I need to antivirus them all. I did have an IT guy from work doing all that sort of stuff, but now he's gone, none are currently protected (I don't think) and need to sort it out. They did have Trendmicro scan or something like that. I use 3 for trading and none of them are protected right now.

Obviously anything that doesn't slow them down - well mine anyway, don't care about theirs!!

Any help or suggestions please?? Also any links.

Thanks in advance.
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Wood,
I've tried most of free and paid, here are the ones I found to be most reliable and not to take too much of system resources and not to slowdown internet connection.

for spyware
Spybot Search & Destroy

FireWall:
Online Armor

Antivirus:
Avira Antivir

all of the above are free ( forget Norton, Zonelab and a lot of others)
 
Quote from Mup:

There's some major problems with AVG with its upgrade from 7.5 to 8.0...
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What? I did the upgrade and have not had any problems.

edit - I didn't read that gnome asked the same q above me.
 
Quote from osorico:

Here's a tip to help understand what is actually loading during startup.
NOTE: this procedure assumes Windows XP

1) During bootup press F5. This will bring up a boot options menu. Select "Enable Boot Logging" and continue the boot.

2) When boot completes, look for the NTBTLOG.TXT file in the Windows directory. This log contains all the drivers attempting to be loaded during boot.

3) Rename the NTBTLOG.TXT file to something else.

4) Now reboot again, enabling boot logging, but this time boot into safe mode.

The difference between the 2 files, the one you renamed and the new ntbtlog.txt file from the safe mode boot, provides a major running start at determining what may be bogging down your boot process.

fwiw; after many years with AVG-Free, I have converted to the paid version of NOD32. Relatively recent, but no problems whatsoever. It's extremely lightweight and the protection is significantly better, IMO. And the company is located in San Diego CA, with phones, email, and live people. Ever try to contact Grisoft?

Osorico
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I use nod32 also.

John
 
Quote from jficquette:

I use nod32 also.

John
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Did you ever have a virus incident or problem with AVG? Like you, I've been running AVG for a few years on 5 machines... never a problem yet. (When I had a dialup ISP, they said they used AVG and suggested I do the same.)
 
The Resource footprint on AVG 8 , is the main issue combined with Link Scanner , "Dropdown Notification" and Outlook email problems.

You can tweak it, to disable some of the main features but addition problems seem to appear with browsing speed issues.

Rather than messing about its easier to use something like Avira AntiVir untill AVG address the reported issues on the "8" upgrade..
 
I have also noticed a significant dropoff in browsing speed in the new version of AVG.... I enjoy the product but that feature (Link Scanner) was maddening .... I chose to disable the feature as I am the only one using the computer and don't need them "looking out" for the links I click on. Once I sorted that out the browsing returned to normal speed and the service seems to be back at the level it was before.
 
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