Hey everyone,In light of recent events, I've finally decided to purchase an antivirus piece of software. I know, it's something I should have done a long time ago, but better late than never, right? ;)Which antivirus program is the best out there right now? I've noticed that Norton and McAfee seem to be the "leaders of the industry." Are these the guy to go with? Which is better? Are there other companies even better than these two? Thanls. :)Ryan-Flightpro08 :-cool VATSIM Pilot/ControllerZLA ARTCC Senior Controller (C-3)Help Fight Cancer! www.ud.comhttp://vatsim.pilotmedia.fi/statusindicato...tor=OD1&a=a.jpg-----------------------------My "Home Made" System Specs:Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz ProcessorTurbo Gamer ATX Mid-Tower with 420W Power SupplyEPoX 4G4A Motherboard with Intel 845G ChipsetVisiontek XTASY GeForce4 128MB Ti4600 (Det 44.03 Drivers)1GB PC2100 DDR RAM40GB Matrox 7200RPM Hard DriveWindows XP Home Edition SP1*No CPU or GPU Overclocking*-----------------------------Click Here to Download my American Eagle POSKY CRJ-200!

I have no idea which is better but there are some very good antivirus software for free. I am not at home so can't tell you which one I am using but I installed it upon recommendation of many folks on these forums (including our chief moderator Scott Brazell). It is made in Czech Republic if I am not mistaken, it also has a payware version. If you are interested I can let you know what it is in about 10 hrs. ...... OK.. found it, it is called AVG and it has a free version. More info at www.grisoft.comMichael J.http://www.reality-xp.com/community/nr/rsc/rxp-higher.jpg

I can recommend Trend. Check out their website. It does not matter what you get in the long run if you do not keep your pattern file up to date and most users don't.

Thanks for the info guys. :)Ryan-Flightpro08 :-cool VATSIM Pilot/ControllerZLA ARTCC Senior Controller (C-3)Help Fight Cancer! www.ud.comhttp://vatsim.pilotmedia.fi/statusindicato...tor=OD1&a=a.jpg-----------------------------My "Home Made" System Specs:Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz ProcessorTurbo Gamer ATX Mid-Tower with 420W Power SupplyEPoX 4G4A Motherboard with Intel 845G ChipsetVisiontek XTASY GeForce4 128MB Ti4600 (Det 44.03 Drivers)1GB PC2100 DDR RAM40GB Matrox 7200RPM Hard DriveWindows XP Home Edition SP1*No CPU or GPU Overclocking*-----------------------------Click Here to Download my American Eagle POSKY CRJ-200!

Try AVG, it's free and has regular and easy updates.

I'm sold on Norton. Never had any kind of virus. They automatically update when I'm connected and when there are problems I've had two updates in a week. I also run the free version of Zone alarm firewall.Bill

I've run "barefoot" for 4 years with only two bugs ever. (puter runs all over the net 16 hours 7/365. Free Zone Alarm & Pop-up Stopper). Once a month I run (free) http://housecall.trendmicro.com through along with defrag etc. I just found entire systems (norton etc) too bothersome and seemed to slow down everything.

>I've run "barefoot" for 4 years with only two bugs ever.>(puter runs all over the net 16 hours 7/365. Free Zone Alarm &>Pop-up Stopper). Once a month I run (free)>http://housecall.trendmicro.com through along with defrag>etc. I just found entire systems (norton etc) too bothersome>and seemed to slow down everything.Exactly the same here. Behind a router too, so I'm protected against most worms as well.

As I mentioned in another post, we have a virus wall that strips attachments (among other things) before they get in and do harm. One of the things I have been involved with since I became a netadmin here is contacting people who are being spoofed and don't know it. At one time we had a guy - his address was [email protected] sending us hundreds of files off his hard drive. He had no idea this was going on. He had the klez virus and it was sending out e-mails to hundreds of people with files it was copying from his hard drive as attachments where it had placed genetic code of itself to infect anyone who got one of the attachments.After we tried for three weeks to get him to respond by e-mail, I called h-----n on the telephone (yes, we can find this info too) and told him what we were receiving and he could not (would not) beleive it so we gathered up a couple of hundred e-mails he had sent us and sent them to him in a big file. He was absolutely dumb struck. He also got an av program and cleaned up his act. Maybe you aren't suffering the effects of a virus shutting you down. Maybe instead you are the relay agent for the virus distribution network.Maybe not. You just never can tell. But I can.