[PANTUGGeneral] Ask Slashdot: What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

[JP Vossen]

Since it came up on the list recently...

http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/03/18/1831246/What-Free-Antivirus-Do-You-Install-On-Windows

Ask Slashdot: What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?
Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, @02:43PM
from the is-clamav-no-longer-good? dept.
Techman83 writes "After years of changing between AVG Free + Avast, it's
coming time to find a new free alternative for friends/relatives who run
Windows. AVG and Avast have been quite good, but are starting to bloat
out in size, and also becoming very misleading. Avast recently auto
updated from 4.8 to 5 and now requires you to register (even for the
free version) and both are making it harder to actually find the free
version. Is this end of reasonable free antivirus, or is there another
product I can entrust to keep the 'my computer's doing weird things'
calls to a minimum?"

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[Jeremy Fountain]

I have moved all of my windows instances to Microsoft Security Essentials.
I've been quite happy with it. VMs seem much happier (running VMWare &
Parallels).

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[Jim DeCaro]

I have been hearing good things about it from testing types. MS must have
either bought the company or farmed the project out. I can't believe they
came up with anything the pros would like internally.

Jim

[Troy Sorzano]

Just one more AV to think about.

We use FortiClient Premium for all the office notebooks and Kaspersky for desktops and servers.

Fortinet just changed the licensing and the FortiClient is now available in a free version.

www.forticlient.com

I like it because we can use it as a web filter on the notebooks. When you install it you can choose all or just the parts you want. We have a fortimanager that allows us to manage settings for both this software and our FortiGate UTMs.

I would like to hear what the AV / Security bundle gurus have to say about it.

Troy

[Art Alexion]

+1 for MSE.

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jeremy Fountain
<foun...@innovatech.net> wrote:

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[David Dows]

I just recently noticed the free FortiClient, but haven't tried it yet.
I had planned to test MSE and Vipre on the next two test systems, but
after my recent research, I think I'll wait until Vipre earns a decent
rating at AV-Comparatives and a VB-100 on something other than Win7.

I'm still looking for a firewall that matches the Norton Personal
Firewall in auto-configuration. I don't think they sell it as a
standalone product anymore.

Until then, I'm sticking with NIS 2010, SAS, MBAM and Windows Defender,
which alerts me to any new startup items, just like Spybot, SpySweeper
or WinPatrol (although I'm looking more at WinPatrol, after Bob
Sherman's mention of the DLL blocking - and I like lifetime registrations).

i can also add to what Bob said about Norton resource usage, even Alex
Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software acknowledged that NIS had greatly reduced
its resource footprint. I believe I uploaded his article a while ago,
calling attention to that observation in paragraph #3, but I forget
where I found it originally. His statement might have even been made
about NIS 2009, although NIS 2010 has gotten even better.

SnoopFree alerts me to ANY activity that would be necessary for spyware
to work. Using it has also revealed that often apps will try to read the
screen, or an unowned window, or hook the keyboard, and work just fine,
even when I disallow it permanently.

I don't want any firewall that tries one-setting-fits-all for any
application; no better than the Vista or Windows 7 firewalls (I forget
which one, if either, added limited outbound filtering). Nor do I want a
chatty HIPS, that would overwhelm my clients with prompts requiring a
PhD in IT Security.