Ok so i like anti-virus things.. who doesnt? Hackers and German Bank Owners. But since i dont know any german bank owners and the only hackers i know use PHP, i figure everyone who is going to read this likes to keep there PC in a secure condition, free of virus, adware, spyware and malware.

However not ALL anti-virus programs are wise choices. At the top of my To Download list is Sofos - Used by industry leaders it is the industry standard of Anti-Virus, if god has a computer there is no doubt he would have Sofos installed. And second is Avast! Pro. Not as powerful but very flexiable and reliable. Also uses little resources even during a scan.

So, if your going to download Anti-Virus - Pay or not pay, i suggest Avast! and/or Sofos. If your a newbie, i wouldnt get both if i were you. Most newbies would be unable to configure it so they work side by side with out conflict.

Now it is with great regret that i say i dowloaded a version of McAfee... That is a complete waste of time... Im not kidding, i had opened my windows folder and it begun to Scan each file giving a pop up about each file scanned, one by one, and how no threat was detected. Now, that is more annoying than having an actual infection and having it pop up every few miniutes. I open a folder and it lets me know that the folder is clean. This is the moderen world, people dont need to know if something is Fine. Only if something isnt. McAfee has some real issues to deal with before even thinking about competing... And believe it or not, its the only anti-virus i would strong advise you not to attemp using. It is a massive memory whore, its 'background' tasks, or active shield used more memory then a scan. And when it did scan it detected things that were in no way a threat. .zip files with music in them. I knew what was in them, considering i made them. And i dont remember putting a virus in them. McAfee is the mad mans anti-virus. It will cause more problems then it will solve.

Now the point of this is not me just to rant on. Do you agree with my opinion? And none of this im wrong bulls*** - i want to make it clear that this thread is not a right/wrong thread a best/worst thread, it is an opinion. My opinion first.

So now, you opinion? Have you had an interesting/dangerouse or funny anti-/virus event?

Wait.. hackers.. php.. who you tryn to say

If a virus scan uses little recources, dont you think its not doing a good enough job?

I wouldnt bother paying for anti-virus. I've had norton 05, and mcaffee, and neither of them worked any good as like, Anti-vir. http://www.avira.com/en/

Booya! I downloaded that one bob, Anti-vir... that is awesome!

I knew i had an infection and within 30 seconds it came up, BING, and now Virus free ... though ill still do a scan later tonight... Meh... SO! ZGood work, i suggest people to download that anti-virus!

McAfee sucks!

Nortan sucks too, but I have the $80 Nortan System works and it really does get the job done, and it does a ton of other stuff too...slows the computer down a little but deffinitly better than previous versions of Nortan. Is it worth $80? Probably not, but now that I have it, I have all the awsome features it comes with and of course all the anti stuff it comes with, such as anti-virus.

I was always told nortan was just crap... just plain crap... i myself have no problems with it and find its best for the less experienced user as its farley congif-low... Its all preset and nothing has to be set up.

Dam, symantec brought my firewall company!.

I had norton, and some other free virus scanner, norton wouldnt find the virus, even when i told it to look in the specific folder of the infected file...

Did you pay for nortan? Cause i think you need to pay it...

I have a bootlaged version of Notans laying around somewhere... but I don't use it b/c I have no need of it in Linux Debian.

Way to beat the virus system.

I have a comuter tech friend runnen linux, he said he dosnt have any firewall on his computer... But i think he ment he dosnt have it on his computer, but in his router.

I didnt pay for it, but it was the real version of nortan.

Well as far as I know there isn't really any virus's that infect the Linux system.

I was thinking more along the lines of hackers... Im sure alot of hackers use linux.

Could be, I don't know what OS a hacker would use.

It would depend on how they hack and what they are hacking

And a firewall aint much to stop people these days, espicially if they are good hackers... My mate dave he can hack through firewalls with ease... he did it to me...

But he has alot of spare time...

Do you mean that firewall, he used to be connected to

I like loging into peoples routers, one day i must learn how to delete the logs

Remember when we had to goto shep, and hack that router, and you changed the password Good times good times.

Yeah lol

That6 open day was awesome as... cause i dont think that they was expecting me to do it... But it was our second time at it so it was easy as

Of course it was easy, the password was like, mango or somthn.

That and i think they used the same password twice didnt they? That and i was sitting next to the guy who made the passowrd...

*looks at guys screen*

Oh really?

*types password in*

*changes password to strawberrys*

I gotem good!