cheers
Mortifer

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I have been using nothing but online scanners every now and again for quite a few years.
and have not had but one virus like two or three years ago… it does not say much for
installed software.
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Nice post but I don’t think Nod32 should have been put down the was it was , I have been using Nod32 fro the past year and it has been my savior multiple times , people bring their computers over to my place for a gaming session and they are running antivirus programs amongst the big names (Norton , MacAfee and trend micro) and as soon as they hook up to my network Nod has alerted me to virus’s trying to infest my computer , No antivirus is going to be 100% fool prove but i believe Nod32 has been doing great stuff the past year and so do the AV comparison reports , http://www.av-comparatives.org , I went back to version 2 from version 3 as I don’t hold as much trust in their new software , mainly because it doesn’t load my routers firewall properly but it should still be amongst the best. I will switch back to version 3 if they fix that bug (or will switch to whichever is the best at the time). From the comparison reports run in February 71% of unknown virus’s were detected no false positives and the program had very low memory and CPU usage. It also detects Spyware and adware , a great addition meaning I don’t have to run spyware search and distroy regularly anymore.

And no i have not been payed or am not affiliated with Eset in anyway.

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Dude just go to jotti’s site and see for yourself that nod32 is not worth the download. I am not even reading this post man.
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I will add that… a)I run as admin all the time (development software insits on on… and I admit, lazy)… b) I have been in this game a long time, so all unneeded services are shut down, system locked and mirrored, ports open only when I need them to be and c) NO one else has admin rights on my puter…

In any case… Just curious, I have dubious and mixed feelings on AV stuff anyway, as they, in general can only protect against the known, which means they are quite limited, but … I have no issues with the software and neither have any of my friends or customers… I made the switch after I got heartily fed up with Norton (which used to be an excellent product but now is … painful to install, and even harder to live with) and have had no cause to regret it. (No.. I did NOT make the mistake of going with some of the other big names, had already recovered too many boxes they had bolluxed up… )

If you have time, I would enjoy hearing your thoughts…

Happy New Year

Bill
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That was a an excellent response man.
I mean so good it makes my stubborn self want to rethink my opinion.
My opinion is a bit dated, atleast two years, but it holds firm only because of what I have witnessed at jotti’s site by watching real-time catches.
I am pretty sure that by now they have cleared up the resource issues I used to face every time I installed avg, but their scanner isn’t very impressive
anymore. I in no way am calling you a liar, I just simply have had a different experience with avg from what you have, and this is on many machines.
I am a resource troll, I do not like to see any delay in any program I want to run due to some form of “protection”. The last I saw, avg was getting up there
in bloat with norton.I will keep watching and keep your response in mind, you might have just sold me into a retry.
TruXter
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