Internet Virus Protection

Me

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Norton or McAfee and it's done. Less than $50.

[CedarDave]

Doing a "live update" as I write!!

[lawdude]

"Get Zone Alarm,"

If I recall correctly, Zone Alarm is a firewall application, not a virus protection app.

[Cicero]

Norton wants to take over your system which may cause jamming.

I always turn off the auto-update feature, because it has a habit of popping up at the worst times. I do the same with Windows Update. But if you turn them off, then you need to get in the habit of updating often manually.

[Drango]

I paid all of $8.50 for Norton Internet Security 2002 by bidding for it on Ebay. Anti-Virus protection and a firewall that work great, a privacy control thingamajig and a cheesy ad blocker that is only OK. Also, I assumed that 'cause I had dial-up I didn't need a firewall. WRONG...I get several intrusion attemps a day!

'Nuff said!

[VOA]

Is Norton (Symantec) the best?

I'm no expert, but...
I work at a major research university; they use Symantec.

Additionally, the hosts of one of the "tech" radio shows out here give the
nod to Symantec; they just seem to think that McAfee isn't quite as good.

[CedarDave]

Exactly!! It's been ten days since I last updated. This thread reminded me to do it manually.

[goldstategop]

I use Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Internet Security Firewall in tandem. Great products and easy to install and use and never have had an infection or a hacker make havoc of my hard drive yet. Plus if you look now, the 2002 edition can only get even cheaper. And its Windows XP compatible.

[VOA]

Oh, and like others, ZoneAlarm is gets lots of positive comment out here.

Be careful about the Klez virus (and variants). Our university computer center
sent out an e-mail advisory campus-wide about it; that's a pretty rare event...
thus I go with their evaluation of it being a really bad boy.

[Mark17]

Consumer reports says Macafee and Norton are best virus protection, and Zone alarm is one of the best firewalls.

[tall_tex]

I had Norton in my office, along came sircam, got hit big time cost me lots of bucks to get rid of it. Went to Mc Afee, got hit again, went to Pccilin, user friendly, tells me when they have a update when I turn my computer on. We spents thousands of dollars in repairs last year, and who knows how much money it cost us in down time with this problem. I told my agents, you open an attachment and we get a virus, you are history. Tough part is that my wife is the worst offender.. Go figure, married 39 years this fall, like I am going to fire my best agent and love of my life. Good luck. Tom

[PaulJ]

I have AT&T cable and Zone Alarm was causing me quite a bit of trouble with Windows. When I called AT&T tech support, one time, and described my problem, the first thing they asked me was if I had Zone Alarm. They then advised me to remove it. And if you decide to get rid of it you have to go to their web site (Zone Alarm's) to find out how to manually remove bits and pieces of it, a simple un-install still leaves some of it in your computer.
AT&T now has a free download of Sygate Fire Wall and I have had no problems with it.

[PhilDragoo]

Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Has Live Update feature to keep current on virus definitions. Catches those pesky viruses before they can infect.

Prior to that, McAfee was adequate and used their techs via phone and email.

For firewall protection, ZoneAlarm stopped a series of Chinese "scientific institutes" at the time of the EP-3C incident. Now Black Ice blocks the various probes.

[tall_tex]

I keep thinking about Rush's comments, "Follow the Money", do any of you'al think the the virus protection industry could possibly be responsible for the large number of virus infestations.. Tin foil hat right....... dum da dum dum

[Mahone]

For my money you can't beat two programs, Protector Plus for anti-virus and Cookie Pal for beating all the cookies the sites load on your puter (it also has stopped any spyware from being added to mine, I know because I have Ad-Aware and since I've had Cookie Pal have picked up almost no spyware) Protector Plus is $12 a year and Cookie Pal is $15, both well worth a safer computer.

[Pushi]

I have McAfee, and I am perfectly happy. I was inundated by viruses a few weeks ago--several per day. McAfee got them all.

[big bad easter bunny]

Since no one mentioned it I will: AVG it's free and it's great. I put it on all my clients computers and have found a lot of viruses that the software they were running didn't. http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm

[Beach_Babe]

I've had some problems with Zone Alarm also. That firewall works two ways. It took several attempts to get online...ZA wouldn't let me sign on to AOL. And it wouldn't let me post anything of length here at FR. Now I use ZA only when I want to, and close it at other times.