Comments on: The Ultimate Guide to Protection from USB Viruses

By: Pras

Pras — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:23:39 +0000

@M.M.Kashani: Can you be more specific? What kinda weakness have you seen?

By: M.M.Kashani

M.M.Kashani — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:08:19 +0000

I have also seen some weakness on Nod32 smart security

By: Parikshith

Parikshith — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:55:17 +0000

Lol ! just like me i wont change avast no matter what anyone says!!

By: Pras

Pras — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:40:18 +0000

@Parikshith: Well I’m surprised that Avast and Avira are gaining ground. I was only voicing a very personal opinion and will stick to NOD32 until I face problems like in your case

By: Anand

Anand — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:16:59 +0000

I’m with Parikshith. Down with NOD32.

By: Parikshith

Parikshith — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:16:07 +0000

Its as Anand said… even i tried NOD before Avast and had lotsa problems. the cracks didnt work and the software used to hang if scanned sandisk memory cards.!! annoying and i seriously dont bother if my antivirus takes in much memory as its for the good of my system… (that saying i used to have 1.5 GB RAM in my prev rig…. new rig having 4GB of which i cant use 1GB just coz i dont have a 64bit OS !! haiyo!

And having a standalone firewall is always better than something thats integrated with an antivirus pack. Comodo not only does the firewall thing but its defense+ option also allows me to block programs form running (bit like UAC in vista…
Also the virus definitions of avast are in small packs and not as a huge bundle. so its good. keeps the system healthy and running. I even installed avast in my college rigs to get rid of some real nasty viruses and it did the job real neat. And avira is something thats catching up, not used it yet but ppl say its good. And have a look at the following link
http://download.chip.asia/in/Top-10-Power-User-Tools_4170981.html?tab=5&show=0
Thats a page from CHIP site giving top ten power tools to be installed in a new rig….. and avast is no:1 in the list

By: Pras

Pras — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:33:54 +0000

@Anand:

It hasn’t detected a single Virus or Malware or whatever it is ever since i installed it.

I’m dumbstruck . You’re the only person who’s had such a bad experience with NOD32. You very well know it works well & updates regularly on my computer

By: Anand

Anand — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:56:45 +0000

Very very Informative and Important too.

I’ve personally seen some viruses slip through even NOD32

Huh! I’ve been using NOD32 for the Past 1 year.Its not free,most of the cracks for it don’t work, It wouldn’t update its Virus database regularly,most of the time the update process ends up in ERROR and above all It hasn’t detected a single Virus or Malware or whatever it is ever since i installed it. I know very well that my system is infected and it wouldn’t even detect it. Ok so it doesn’t drain System resources,Good. But whats the point in having it if it cant detect anythin??????
NOD32 is a piece of CRAP.
I switched to Avira,most ppl wouldn’t have even heard about it. Its free and detected malwares as soon as i plugged in my Pendrive. i don think it would be better than Free commander or Ikill, but it certainly is way Better than Nod32 in perfomance and uses minimum system resources.

By: Pras

Pras — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:57:52 +0000

@Parikshith: I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Avast, but personally, I just hate the interface. Also, tech reviews show NOD32 is stronger than Avast in heuristics. Also, if you use NOD32 Smart Security, you wouldn’t need a firewall running separately. Having used only 256MB of RAM for years before, I treasure memory usage a lot and have been noting memory usage of almost everything on my computer. ESET has got an amazingly small memory footprint, which I like the most. Do keep in touch and let me know how good Avast is

By: Parikshith

Parikshith — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:52:47 +0000

This is a very good method. But an even hassle free method to remove new folder virusses adn most new virus is to use Avast antivirus(with auto update feature on). I’ve been using this software for more than a year and have to give it a pat on the back. It does a great job really. Combine it with comodo firewall adn the results are awesome. I’ve had no viruses in my sys for a long time now thanks to these two