Good XP Antivirus.

[mrdinkel]

Need your folks comments on a good antivirus that will be in the clear to run under XP, because of the new file access permissions and such. Any constructive suggestions are good.

 

[Shakie]

I use Nortons System Works 2003 and it runs very smooth and does a great job of catching harmful things that may infect my system.

 

[þÄ®âÐÖx]

I use AVG (www.grisoft.com) and I think it makes a great alternative to Norton (especially since it's free )

 

[Shakie]

Free is good... lol

 

[neb1211]

I use avg also. It is a pretty good anti virus.

 

[Overclocker16]

Really anything other then Norton.

Sure Norton does a great job at removing it. But there are some where it stops Norton from working. What other choices? The best are the free online scans.

 

[Slam'n Systems]

I use Norton Antivirus 2003

 

[microsoftne]

I actually use norton 2002, (still have years of free updates), or panda. Panda is free and it can run from your browser while you are online....

 

[chalk]

Excellent!

Hey, just tried AVG per reading this thread.

Brief Story that happened today. Mcafee had run out yesterday since I had the 30 day trial. I was downloading, then installing gta3.exe off of kazaa and I immediately thougtht, 'hey' i really ought to check for bad stuff...and looked in task manager and saw the infamous system32.exe running. Argh! I installed AVG. and it immediately found it on reboot. Fixed it. Found 83 freaking infected files!!!! Wow, I didn't know those little bastards worked that fast. Luckily I caught in time and none were essential system files...it was getting ready to spew random replications named things like update.exe...gamecrack.exe etc.

Anway thats my infomercial plug for AVG. I'm glad I read this thread when I did.

Cheers.

 

[devlish96]

maybe i should try it too,..downloading it now...