For the longest time I never ran any anti-virus software and I haven't been infected since high school. The anti-virus software you use does not determine whether or not you will get a virus. Smart computing is more effective than any virus scan out there and 99.9% of the time a person gets infected is because they were not using common sense or didn't have the knowledge to prevent it. The only reason I run a virus scan now is because my clients are very virus-prone and since I save my backups on my local fileserver I have to be able to scan them as needed.
So to recap, the best virus scan in the world will only tell you 2 things:
1) You're infected.
2) You can't substitute knowledge with software.
lol, nice summary KuJoe. I've not been infected in several years myself.
Though I almost got infected because someone I trust gave me a USB flash stick and it was infected (they didn't know). Thankfully most virii can't infect Linux and thats where I opened it at. And I had my Clam up and running, so it was detected shortly after inserting the key.
It was a very evil little bas**** too. It would be initiated by the USB key's autorun, which would then attempt to install it in about 10 different locations. Weeee.
(2009-10-29, 03:06 AM)KuJoe Wrote: [ -> ]Everytime!
lol!
(2009-10-29, 05:56 AM)ralgith Wrote: [ -> ]Well, I agree with KuJoe. ClamAV under *nix and ClamWin for Windows. However, ClamWin has no access scanning mode. Meaning you have to run manual scans every now and again. It used to be there, but in Windows its borked.
From the ClamWin site:
Quote:Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
However, it does have integrated scanning with many programs, especially email programs and browsers. I love it, and since it has a scan scheduler I just schedule for 3:30am every day and voila. 
Screw that Norton crap.
All this said however, I did vote for Buy Kaspersky 
3 license version was only $60 last time I looked.
Of course, I would have voted for clam/clamwin but you didn't have on list 
For Corp. edition? Amazing!
And yes, but he has a corp edition, and it is actually very nice.
(2009-10-29, 07:44 AM)Sundim Wrote: [ -> ]At the expense of getting flamed. I use Microsoft Security Essentials, along with windows firewall. Never had a virus on any of my computers though. So I don't really care what anti-virus I have installed lol.
I used to use Comodo Internet Security, but stopped using it when I updated to the 7 public testing.
I have an un crypted trojan on my machine dormat, i downloaded to help a friend get rid of. And MSE can't seem to find it xD.
And i know, i haven't gotten a real virus for years. Even more so since i am a clean user, i don't torrent anything illegal. Period.