OT: Antivirus Recommendations?

Question

Hi All,
My antivirus/security software just expired (PC-cillin
Internet Security
2005) so I renewed for another year. Unfortunately, the new
version slowed
my computer to a crawl. It took three minutes 42 seconds for
Dreamweaver to
load. I timed it. I've tried everything with no success. The
manufacturer
was very good and gave me a refund but now I'm running AVG
Free until I get
a more comprehensive suite. Can anyone make any
recommendations?
I'm running XP Professional
2.52 GHz P4
1GHz of RAM
Thanks!
David

Answer 1

I'd love to stand beside you guys and yell, and have been
about AVG for
quite some time. It's a great AV program, but some caution
should be used:
Recently while transferring files from this machine to
another, the other
machine picked up a virus in an archived file.
*Granted* this is at the limits of what an AV program looks
for, and
definitely granted that AVG did a wonderful job for being
free - however...
Upon scanning with
http://housecall.trendmicro.com,
and an indepenedent
Symantec tool, I was able to find a virus located in a
tarballed archive of
our email directories off our server. AVG never picked up the
virus on
trransfer, nor did it pick up the virus when I scanned the
folders directly.
Again, I realize this is at upper limits of a program's
capacity, especially
a free one, but you should be aware of it's limitations.
HTH,
Jon
"Steve" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:28:56 +0100, "RobGT"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Stick with AVG.
>>It's good and works well.
>
> Seconded.
> --
> Steve
> steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com