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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by KoRnFlakes on Sun Nov 2nd at 8:46am 2003


PC-Cillin, Norton?
Could really do with putting a scanner on my pc, allot of viruses going around atm.

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by G4MER on Sun Nov 2nd at 8:57am 2003


I stand by AVG. its a great program and its free.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

There ya go.. Try it I think you'll like it.

($)

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by gimpinthesink on Sun Nov 2nd at 9:55am 2003


I use norton its quite good and got all the virouses I've had. [addsig]



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Nov 2nd at 9:59am 2003


i prefer McAfee, i have tryed norton, it uses to many resourses and slows my PC down, and it finds way more stuff than AVG..

still its a personal choice.

McAfee 8 is out BTW

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Rumple on Mon Nov 3rd at 12:52am 2003


/me points at MoneyShots post

i reccomend that one too

i had too many problems with norton

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Dr Brasso on Mon Nov 3rd at 1:59am 2003


norton......

in my book pound for pound, its the best.....more features, tools, and pretty damn user friendly.....beeen using it since i started using pc's.....and ive never had a virus out of control....

...............or on my pc either...

.....and, if you uninstall it once a year and then reinstall and register, ya get a free years worth of virus updates.....ive also read that they dont try to keep peeps from NOT paying the yearly fee, as their philosophy is basicly, "if thats what it takes to beat the virus;s, then so be it...."

kind of a refreshing attitude in this capitolistic world, eh?

/just my two cents...

Doc Brass...

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by 2dmin on Mon Nov 3rd at 9:08am 2003


pfft norton is constantly screaming and crying about updates and your "master boot record being modified" ... yeh right ... norton is paranoid and slows your comp down ... i use avg



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 3rd at 11:32am 2003


Norton is bloatware, AVG imho is the best program around



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Nov 3rd at 11:46am 2003


AVG



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by matt on Mon Nov 3rd at 12:40pm 2003


I've always used AVG, it got rid of a real bastard of a virus i had a month ago. But keep it updated always, say every 7 days, then it works good. Also it scans out going email, and puts a cool little footer saying so on them. And zonealarm free edition is also quality, and has so far 496 malicious intuders. Or so it says. I think some of these might just be servers pinging me.

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Gav on Mon Nov 3rd at 3:22pm 2003


Panda... [addsig]



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by xconspirisist on Tue Nov 4th at 10:12am 2003


AVG ?

You dont get viruses on linux, btw





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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by G4MER on Tue Nov 4th at 10:54am 2003


Want to bet on that Xeno..

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Leperous on Tue Nov 4th at 11:19am 2003


That's because people who use Linux are bitter enough with their compiling programs and bitching about what version of X they have and stuck in the 80's with their command prompts, if they had viruses to worry about too it wouldn't be pretty



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Nov 5th at 12:28am 2003


? posted by matt

I've always used AVG, it got rid of a real bastard of a virus i had a month ago. But keep it updated always, say every 7 days, then it works good. Also it scans out going email, and puts a cool little footer saying so on them. And zonealarm free edition is also quality, and has so far 496 malicious intuders. Or so it says. I think some of these might just be servers pinging me.

Psh, I have ZoneAlarm and in a month I've accumulated 500,000 attempted connections, majority of them are pings but occasionally they aren't.

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Nov 5th at 6:18am 2003


I use BlackICE and in 90 days ive had 1009 atempted connections and of that lot only 23 are malicious.

I usualy get UDP or TCP probes but ocasionaly get a Sub7 probe and I get a hell of alot of probes from 207.44.240.23 I have no idea where and what it is (apart from a computer).

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by 2dmin on Wed Nov 5th at 6:38am 2003


I have a hardware firewall which came in my router . . . it doesn't pop up and tell me that xx.xx.xx.xx has attempted to kill me on port xx (which is good imo) but my comp is fine. . . i have no software firewall



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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by fraggard on Wed Nov 5th at 8:32am 2003


? posted by gimpinthesink

I get a hell of alot of probes from 207.44.240.23 I have no idea where and what it is

Try this site: http://www.geektools.com/whois.php
A search on that IP gave quite a bit of info:


Final results obtained from whois.arin.net.
Results:
OrgName: Everyones Internet, Inc.
OrgID: EVRY
Address: 2600 Southwest Frwy., Suite 500
City: Houston
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 77098
Country: US

NetRange: 207.44.128.0 - 207.44.255.255
CIDR: 207.44.128.0/17
NetName: EVRY-BLK-11
NetHandle: NET-207-44-128-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.EV1.NET
NameServer: NS2.EV1.NET
Comment:
RegDate:
Updated: 2002-05-08

TechHandle: RW172-ARIN
TechName: Williams, Randy
TechPhone: +1-713-400-5400
TechEmail:
admin@ev1.net

OrgTechHandle: RW172-ARIN
OrgTechName: Williams, Randy
OrgTechPhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgTechEmail:
admin@ev1.net

If you think it's a malicious user, you can probably report it, or something...





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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Nov 5th at 8:59am 2003


lol I knew there was something like that out there but I hadnt looked.

i dont think its anything malicious I just get about 100-150 pigs a day from that ip

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Re: Virus Scanner
Posted by OtZman on Wed Nov 5th at 11:28am 2003


I use Norton... [addsig]




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