Change of Anti-Virus

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Many upon many will get awarded with "Vendors certified for Anti-Virus detection." PC Tools AntiVirus from my experience will catch some stuff others may miss, and found the file on my system that I had thought was suspicious for a very long time, but it had never did anything malicious.

I followed my own advice and just switched over permanently to PC Tools Free AntiVirus just last night because Avast for some reason was having trouble "initializing it's engine" to begin a scan and was taking about 10 minutes to begin a scan. :huh: After an uninstall and clean install it didn't fix it, so the switch was rather necessary and I surely didn't have the patience for it to take 10 minutes to "initialize it's engine."

What did you think Of Avira Antvir? I remember you trued it recently but I dont remember what you thought about it?

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What did you think Of Avira Antvir? I remember you trued it recently but I dont remember what you thought about it?

I like the new AntiVir Personal. My only problem with it is that stupid AntiVir Notifications ("avnotify.exe") ad window that even properly setting the Local Security Policy to block couldn't block, sorry but that window is just too f'n annoying to have AntiVir installed, plus I hate the red theme the program has.

Who knows I may try it again though and find another way to block avnotify.exe or kill it as soon as it loads, since I after all switch antivirus software regularly.

Although I think that PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition is good I don't like it's non-descriptive systray icon, and the fact that scanning exclusions only work during one Windows session. So I'll probably switch to something else again that allows scanning exclusions to stay between Windows sessions because constantly scanning things like the Microsoft Office .CAB files is a significant waste of time, and since they'll never change they only need to be scanned once.

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I just don't get it. I've never seen PCTools stuff being mentioned on those anti-virus comparing sites. I use PCTools too...

avast! Professional Edition 4.7

AVG Anti-Malware 7.5

AVIRA AntiVir Personal Edition Premium 7.06

BitDefender Antivirus 2008 11.0

eScan Anti-Virus 9.0

ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus 3.0

F-Secure Anti-Virus 2008 8.0

G DATA AntiVirusKit (AVK) 2008 18.0

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0.1

McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 12.0

Microsoft OneCare 2.0

Norman SS Antivirus & Anti-Spyware 7.0

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.0

Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 2008 15.0

TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2.8.0

VBA32 Scanner for Windows 3.12.6

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by admin (Nov 13th 2007, 10:02am)

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No reply the last time said like no good as a Anti-Virus only test it if you can call it a antivires