Posts Tagged ‘Antivirus’
| 19 Nov 2008 |
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ID theft protection - which will help you protect your identity and prevent hackers from stealing it. It also has a built in credit reporting feature(for people in the US only).
Root & Boot Protection - imo this is the most important segment of Zone Alarm, which provides enhanced Antivirus and Operating System protection.
Additional Layers – like wireless pc protection(for wireless networks), pop-up blocker and real-time security updates.
Check out a full feature list on the Zone Alarm PRO product page
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I’m not a Zone Alarm fan, but getting A premium product for free isn’t a bad thing.
| 15 Aug 2008 |
Back to Kaspersky |
About a month ago Kaspersky 7 Internet security pissed me off, so I switched to AVG Internet security which works great but has some issues also.
The thing that I really liked about AVG that it offered reat resident protection. The thing that i really hate about it that it scans your game files while you play this causing your fps to drop till the scan is over. It’s native to AVG to scan the files in use and he does it in a heavy way.
Take it like this:
steamclient.dll is a main component of Steam. When you play counter-strike or any other game on steam this is active.Lets say that steamclient.dll represents a player from a football(rugby) team and AVG represents the whole opposing team.
When steamclient.dll has the ball(is active) the whole opposing team represented by AVG tackles & blocks jumping on him by this way slowing him down.
To be honest this is very annoying and I got killed quite many times in counter-strike because my fps suddenly dropped. Tim Garcia also reports that when avg is active some games crash or he has low fps.
Anyway, Tim told me about Kaspersky 8(Kaspersky 2009) so now that I reinstalled my Windows I installed Kaspersky 2009. It works great, i tested it out by going from pishing websites to websites which contain trojan downloaders and exploits and so far it blocked all threats.
The one thing that I don’t like about Kaspersky 2009 is the GUI(General User Interface) which looks pretty ugly(in my opinion) and it would have been cooler if they would have kept the old GUI from Kaspersky 7.
The new GUI:
The old GUI:
The old GUI looks a lot cleaner and more professional, it also looks more organized than the new one. Of course if they would have combined the two GUI’s keeping the old sidebar and structuring from the old and the colors and shadings from the new one i would have given the GUI an A+ rating.
Okay, enough talk about the GUI! The main puprose of an anti-virus is to protect your computer whichs is done perfectly by Kaspersky 8!
| 3 Jul 2008 |
Kaspersky really pissed me off – switching to AVG |
It all started with a Template sale thread on DP which i checked out and accessed the template preview website, everything loaded fine, Kaspersky didn’t pop up blocking the page.
After a while i saw dangys’s post:
Avg 8.0 Picked up multiple virus
I noticed from his screen shot that he’s using IE, so i jumped up in defense of Kaspersky:
strange…i’m using firefox and Kaspersky 7 and nothing popped up, most probably it’s an IE exploit(yet an other reason to switch to firefox)
Than Astroman gave the final stroke:
I’m using Firefox, it has nothing to do with the browser.
This determined me to ask a few of my friends to check the page(i asked 3 friends, they were all using AVG Internet security), and they all told me that their AV goes crazy when they access the page.
There was a similar issue back a month ago when Servage got hacked and almost all clusters got infected with some trojan. Luckaly BETng4U noticed it with AVG and told me about it so i got rid of it as quicky as possible(trust me you don’t want to get on stopbadware.org’s list because than you can kiss good bye to your visitors.
Today i formatted, reinstalled Windows and installed AVG Internet Security, so far it looks great, i’m looking forward to its prestation.
When your using payment processors like paypal than you can never be too safe. It’s better to be safe than sorry, trust me on this.
| 4 Jan 2008 |
Choose the Antivirus that Fits your PC |
Nowadays its quite hard to find a good antivirus that will perfectly fit your PC. There are n (n is a very big value) antiviruses that you can use but you need to consider a few factors before using/buying a antivirus software:
- The protection it offers
- The system requirement(you can’t install norton for example on a 300MHZ PC, well you can install it but you need to be really crazy to do that)
- Additional features the antivirus has(firewall,spyware protection,network monitoring, etc)
- If its a commercial antivirus you evaluate it using the 30 days trial that most commercial antiviruses offer. This is MANDATORY!
- If after evaluating the antivirus you are fully satisfied with it don’t get grumpy and start thinking about other antiviruses because you don’t really like this one’s price. If it offers the protection that fits you than price is ALMOST regardless.
Over at digitalpoint there is quite a long thread going about which antivirus members prefer.
The thread started with:
Hello friends,
Currently I am using the Windows XP.
Which Anti Virus is the best one for it?
From that point lots of members expressed their opinions about different antiviruses and they shared experiences with different antiviruses.
Today the thread got almost to the end of page 14,when woke up i checked DP as usual, checked my mail and other standard websites that i check every morning. Since i didn’t have anything better to do i made this chard of what antiviruses DP members prefer:
The number next to the pie slices represents the number of people who preferred the specific antivirus.
You can clearly see from the chart that most DP members prefer NOD, right after it on position 2 stands AVG(its biggest advantage is that its free and it offers quite good protection), on 3rd position stands my favorite: Kaspersky.
Avast is preferred by quite a lot of people also(to be honest i rather use avast than AVG).
Here are a few quotes from what DP members say about the antiviruses they like:
I’ve used ESET’s NOD32 for more than 7 years now and haven’t seen a real threat, highly recommended.
vlad230:
NOD32 is the best! I never had problems with viruses since I installed it
mirturk:
My decision is NOD 32. Very fast and secure.
webmasterplace:
I use NOD32, never want another one!!
gabibeowulfx:
I use NOD32 .. but it’s not virusproof ..
.. I had a virus the other day that Nod just wouldn’t detect .. and I had updated virus definition … but still the best av to install ..
Nigel Lew:
Kaspersky Lab,,, hands down! It’s not free though.
ferde:
kaspersky is the one i use for years and it is very light and always the first one to detect the viruses while others dont.
mrClen:
Kaspersky is really the Best and Top’s among anti-virus programs, very reliable. Always the first one to detect while others not. I had tried avast, bitdefender, nod32 and panda but this ones A++ fo me so far.
Maddison.uk:
Kaspersky owns all other Av programs .
Simple , Fast and Efficient .
nofullstop:
kapersky is always the best choice…
sandalwood:
I would go with the AVG free version. It has saved me several times and its free root kit detector is another great program.
d16man:
AVG all the way!
EagleAmerican:
AVG gets my vote. Free or Internet Security. I use AVG Free and Comodo firewall. Works great.
ARonald:
I’m on avg free right now and am loving it. It is low on system resource usage and has a good detection rate.
usasportstraining:
Definitely AVG free edition.
Far better than Norton anyway!
You can read reviews and opinions about the other Antiviruses in the digitalpoint thread
The most critiqued antivirus was Norton, people either say it sucks, or it eats RAM like crazy and doesn’t do its job as it should:
04lwarner:
Nod32 been using 2 years no virus, Before that used norton and must have a had a 100 viruses a week lol.
warman2442:
LOL norton is one of the worst anti viruses, i would seriously rather use any free anti virus over that, probably AVG.
timsdd:
I’ll 2nd the Norton blowing. I’m sure it protects with the best of them but it is a RENOWNED resource hog. Not to mention nearly impossible to uninstall completely and furthermore it can jack your system up real good.
With the suggestions and the reviews above i’m sure that now you know a bit more about how to choose the AV that fits your PC the best, and mark my words: Security ALWAYS comes first. 
| 9 Dec 2007 |
Bitdefender became the most valuable software company in Romania |
A group of american and romanian investors bought a little less than 7% of the shares of Bitdefender. The investment’s value is 7 million US $, and it places Bitdefender to a value of over 100 million $.
The investment will help Bitdefender expand on new markets aswell in consolidating its presence in countries where the company is present.
For this year Bitdefender estimates sales of 100 million$, almost double than in 2006 when it had sales of 69 million $.
