Virus Scanner

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

Which is the best or most recommended now?

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.

($)

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

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

/me points at MoneyShots post

i reccomend that one too

i had too many problems with norton

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... :dodgy:

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 :wink:

Norton is bloatware, AVG imho is the best program around :smile:

AVG

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.

Panda...

AVG ?

You dont get viruses on linux, btw :smile:

Want to bet on that Xeno..

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 :razz:

matt said:
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.

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).

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

gimpinthesink said:
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: [color=white]http://www.geektools.com/whois.php
A search on that IP gave quite a bit of info:

<BR">Final results obtained from whois.arin.net.
Results:
<BR">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: [/color]<a href=""mailto:admin@ev1.net"">admin@ev1.net</a>

OrgTechHandle: RW172-ARIN
OrgTechName: Williams, Randy
OrgTechPhone: +1-713-400-5400
OrgTechEmail: <a href=""mailto:admin@ev1.net" mailto:admin@ev1.net??">admin@ev1.net</a>

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

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

I use Norton... :biggrin:

2dmin said:
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

ditto

routers rule :biggrin:

Norton for me. You kind of need this sort of software for clean-ups when you have 300mbs left on your machine!

I have a gay virus that shuts down my computer only a few minutes after connecting to the internet. Downloading AVG now since it beats the 60$ price tag of Norton's 2004 NAV.

There's a patch through that, it's called msblast, and it only happens when you connect to a Microsoft Server, or it did when it came out. You can get a specific patch for it through System Update.

Unno. But its a good excuse for another reformat :biggrin:

And I figured out why SATA didnt work last time. In BIOS, the boot device was IDE-0 and theres a option for SATA.

Uh-huh ... think it's about time to read your manual now? Since it DOES tell you all this?

Actually it dosent mention that it has to be set to SATA in the boot devices in BIOS :razz:

gimpinthesink said:
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).

Psh, that's puny. I've got ZoneAlarm and in about 2 months I've already had 155,267 attempted connections and 11520 are high rated. And before I re-formatted it was past a million over a 6 month period. Also you usually can't install XP now without getting worms if you don't pre-install a firewall before you connect to the internet. You can't patch anything fast enough.

This topic was started over 6 months ago... why on earth did you post in it, WC?

Cause I had some gay virus? And I knew long ago there was a thread for free anti-virus software, so I did a search.

And SATA still didnt work. Oh well, here's to reinstalling ME and then XP pro. T'will be a long night boys! :biggrin:

and then? No and then. Just install XP pro fresh if anything ... god no wonder you have so many problems with your computer.

pffftt, ive got ad aware

There are tons of good free virusscanners ...

http://www.avg.com

http://www.avast.com

http://www.free-av.com

http://www.bitdefender.com

http://www.f-prot.com

Windows XP pro CD isnt a boot-data CD. The idiot that burned it didnt make it so. So I need a OS installed before I can install XP pro.

Anyways, reformat is complete. But I still get that damn bastard shut down. Why is that?

Its something to do with Remote Procedure Call or something like that.

Here's the exact error:


[edit]
Ok, reading on, they say this is because of a blaster worm due to some security update. Yet the only thing I installed was the service pack (off a CD). I connected to the internet, yes. But it wasent even 60 seconds before I got this.

types this really slow

nick, its a simple thing to remedy. you can either

1) disable remote proceedure call, just google search on how.. but i would recommend that you..

2) get the patch, its simpler by far.

these constant posts of yours, that are solvable with 2 minutes of google searching are making you look silly.

the message you posted is a common malady, google will help you, but only if you use it.

I never thought about Google :biggrin: slaps self

I was looking at Symantec's website but I could find anything.

stares real hard at WC This dial-up of yours is affecting your brain

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

It's only the biggest virus to happen in recent history getting lots of media coverage and more. :rolleyes:

It was in the summer. At which point I was at camp for 6 weeks.