What antivirus do you use?

[TomTom]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

I am using ESET Nod32 Antivirus Home Edition: http://www.en.nod32.ch/products/ena.php Size of the program is only 40MB and it's protecting my OS without giving me the impression that it's all over it and so deep inside of it that I can't get it out anymore if I like to (like Norton). It also doesn't give me 1000 options I do not need (like Norton lol). It is not free though, one year is around 22 dollars or something in that range. But it is small, it doesn't bother me at all or affects the performance of my PC and it does what it should so it's well worth it.

[ganjamo]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

MSE + Malawarebytes and Spybot S&D ftmfw.

[Steve Graham]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

Spybot I always liked too

[rbuffetta]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

Avira and for further protection in Firefox, adblockplus and noscript.

[heretic]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

My antivirus is common sense and a good browser.

[Shpira]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

NOD32 + Malawarebytes

[Shpira]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

I am using ESET Nod32 Antivirus Home Edition: http://www.en.nod32.ch/products/ena.php Size of the program is only 40MB and it's protecting my OS without giving me the impression that it's all over it and so deep inside of it that I can't get it out anymore if I like to (like Norton). It also doesn't give me 1000 options I do not need (like Norton lol). It is not free though, one year is around 22 dollars or something in that range. But it is small, it doesn't bother me at all or affects the performance of my PC and it does what it should so it's well worth it.

I have checked all anti viruses (long live pirated software) this is the best. It uses the least amount of memory. it doesn't slow the PC down (even at start up) and I never had a breach.

[floridaorange]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

[Simon Preston]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

That massive false sense of security that Apple users have is alarming in itself. It's only a matter of time.

[i!!ustrious]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

^ good point Simon.

lol John, brotha, you got a mac, you need not worry.... well... idunno bout that....

[i!!ustrious]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

i've tried them all, or most anyways. antivir, avg (lol horrible), zone alarm, kaspersky, etc.

but i use avast's full package now. i think it is the best.

http://www.avast.com/index

[i!!ustrious]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

spybot seek and destroy is awesome. anyone use data guardian?

[i!!ustrious]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

oh here..... and get this

http://users.telenet.be/ahmadi/nettools.htm

The Creation

Net Tools is cutting-edge security and network monitoring software for the Internet and Local Area Networks, providing clients with the ability and confidence to meet the challenges of tomorrow's technology. Keeping pace with the industry trends, we offer professional tools that support the latest standards, protocols, software, and hardware for both wired and wireless networks. The main goal is the creation of high quality software. Net Tools is a very strong combination of network scanning, security, file, system, and administrator tools useful in diagnosing networks and monitoring your PC and computer's network connections for system administrators. Next to the essential core tools it includes a lot of extra valuable features. It’s a Swiss Army knife for everyone interested in a set of powerful network tools for everyday use. This all-in-one toolkit includes also a lot of handy file and system utilities next to the huge amount of network tools. The menus are fully configurable, so in this way you won’t get lost in the extremely large amount of essential tools. All the additional features will make this application a must have for all system administrators. There are numerous constructive and valuable applications included in Net Tools that can be used for a great amount of purposes. The latest version of Net Tools is hybrid; it means that it’s capable of working together with applications that are made and designed for Net Tools, so in this way more flexibility and user-friendliness is obtained. This software is designed for the Microsoft Windows OS (Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista). It’s entirely compatible and has thoroughly been tested on Windows XP. With the 175+ tools it is a great collection of useful tools for network users. The size of Net Tools 5.0.70 is approximately 25 Mb.

Contents

Net Tools 5.0 (build 70) contains a whole variety of network tools. Here is a list of the most important tools:

1) IP Address Scanner
2) IP Calculator
3) IP Converter
4) Port Listener
5) Port Scanner
6) Ping
7) NetStat (2 ways)
Trace Route (2 ways)
9) TCP/IP Configuration
10) Online - Offline Checker
11) Resolve Host & IP
12) Time Sync
13) Whois & MX Lookup
14) Connect0r
15) Connection Analysator and protector
16) Net Sender
17) E-mail seeker
1 Net Pager
19) Active and Passive port scanner
20) Spoofer
21) Hack Trapper
22) HTTP flooder (DoS)
23) Mass Website Visiter
24) Advanced Port Scanner
25) Trojan Hunter (Multi IP)
26) Port Connecter Tool
27) Advanced Spoofer
2 Advanced Anonymous E-mailer
29) Simple Anonymous E-mailer
30) Anonymous E-mailer with Attachment Support
31) Mass E-mailer
32) E-mail Bomber
33) E-mail Spoofer
34) Simple Port Scanner (fast)
35) Advanced Netstat Monitoring
36) X Pinger
37) Web Page Scanner
3 Fast Port Scanner
39) Deep Port Scanner
40) Fastest Host Scanner (UDP)
41) Get Header
42) Open Port Scanner
43) Multi Port Scanner
44) HTTP scanner (Open port 80 subnet scanner)
45) Multi Ping for Cisco Routers
46) TCP Packet Sniffer
47) UDP flooder
4 Resolve and Ping
49) Multi IP ping
50) File Dependency Sniffer
51) EXE-joiner (bind 2 files)
52) Encrypter
53) Advanced Encryption
54) File Difference Engine
55) File Comparasion
56) Mass File Renamer
57) Add Bytes to EXE
5 Variable Encryption
59) Simple File Encryption
60) ASCII to Binary (and Binary to ASCII)
61) Enigma
62) Password Unmasker
63) Credit Card Number Validate and Generate
64) Create Local HTTP Server
65) eXtreme UDP Flooder
66) Web Server Scanner
67) Force Reboot
6 Webpage Info Seeker
69) Bouncer
70) Advanced Packet Sniffer
71) IRC server creater
72) Connection Tester
73) Fake Mail Sender
74) Bandwidth Monitor
75) Remote Desktop Protocol Scanner
76) MX Query
77) Messenger Packet Sniffer
7 API Spy
79) DHCP Restart
80) File Merger
81) E-mail Extractor (crawler / harvester bot)
82) Open FTP Scanner
83) Advanced System Locker
84) Advanced System Information
85) CPU Monitor
86) Windows Startup Manager
87) Process Checker
8 IP String Collecter
89) Mass Auto-Emailer (Database mailer; Spammer)
90) Central Server (Base Server; Echo Server; Time Server; Telnet Server; HTTP Server; FTP Server)
91) Fishing Port Scanner (with named ports)
92) Mouse Record / Play Automation (Macro Tool)
93) Internet / LAN Messenger Chat (Server + Client)
94) Timer Shutdown/Restart/Log Off/Hibernate/Suspend/ Control
95) Hash MD5 Checker
96) Port Connect - Listen tool
97) Internet MAC Address Scanner (Multiple IP)
9 Connection Manager / Monitor
99) Direct Peer Connecter (Send/Receive files + chat)
100) Force Application Termination (against Viruses and Spyware)
101) Easy and Fast Screenshot Maker (also Web Hex Color Picker)
102) COM Detect and Test
103) Create Virtual Drives
104) URL Encoder
105) WEP/WPA Key Generator
106) Sniffer.NET
107) File Shredder
10 Local Access Enumerater
109) Steganographer (Art of hiding secret data in pictures)
110) Subnet Calculater
111) Domain to IP (DNS)
112) Get SNMP Variables
113) Internet Explorer Password Revealer
114) Advanced Multi Port Scanner
115) Port Identification List (+port scanner)
116) Get Quick Net Info
117) Get Remote MAC Address
11 Share Add
119) Net Wanderer
120) WhoIs Console
121) Cookies Analyser
122) Hide Secret Data In Files
123) Packet Generator
124) Secure File Splitting
125) My File Protection (Password Protect Files, File Injections)
126) Dynamic Switch Port Mapper
127) Internet Logger (Log URL)
12 Get Whois Servers
129) File Split&Merge
130) Hide Drive
131) Extract E-mails from Documents
132) Net Tools Mini (Client/Server, Scan, ICMP, Net Statistics, Interactive, Raw Packets, DNS, Whois, ARP, Computer's IP, Wake On LAN)
133) Hook Spy
134) Software Uninstaller
135) Tweak & Clean XP
136) Steganographic Random Byte Encryption
137) NetTools Notepad (encrypt your sensitive data)
13 File Encrypter/Decrypter
139) Quick Proxy Server
140) Connection Redirector (HTTP, IRC, ... All protocols supported)
141) Local E-mail Extractor
142) Recursive E-mail Extractor
143) Outlook Express E-mail Extractor
144) Telnet Client
145) Fast Ip Catcher
146) Monitor Host IP
147) FreeMAC (MAC Address Editor)
14 QuickFTP Server (+user accounts support)
149) NetTools Macro Recorder/Player (Keybord and Mouse Hook)
150) Network Protocol Analyzer
151) Steganographic Tools (Picture, Sounds, ZIP Compression and Misc Methods)
152) WebMirror (Website Ripper)
153) GeoLocate IP
154) Google PageRank Calculator
155) Google Link Crawler (Web Result Grabber)
156) Network Adapter Binder
157) Remote LAN PC Lister
15 Fast Sinusoidal Encryption
159) Software Scanner
160) Fast FTP Client
161) Network Traffic Analysis
162) Network Traffic Visualiser
163) Internet Protocol Scanner
164) Net Meter (Bandwidth Traffic Meter)
165) Net Configuration Switcher
166) Advanced System Hardware Info
167) Live System Information
16 Network Profiler
169) Network Browser
170) Quick Website Maker and Web Gallery Creator
171) Remote PC Shutdown
172) Serial Port Terminal
173) Standard Encryptor
174) Tray Minimizer
175) Extra Tools (nmap console & win32 version)

Many extra features and utilities are included in this package!

[floridaorange]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

It's only a matter of time.

you have personal experience with creating virus's or what? I don't get it

[i!!ustrious]

Re: What antivirus do you use?

well, according to my IT professor (who has been involved since before mac and microsoft): apple systems have only started to become universally utilized.... i'm talking like right after the turn of the century --- while microsoft systems have monopolized, and have been universally utilized, commerically, industrially, etc. etc since forever. i don't know how relatively correct this all is, but you get the gist of it. i had pcs and macs in the 90s; at that time, macs where pretty much like non-existent, non-existent when compared to how widely used they are today.

since everyone (or at least on a consumer basis) is jumping on the bandwagon - thinking a mac is the best and hippest way to go; and everyone in the creative realm is starting to use macs as a designated workstation, i would postulate that viruses and such will start to become an issue... simply because more people are using them. perhaps that makes some sense, idunno.

pc - used a lot
mac - not used a lot (until now)