Hi all,

Now i know this is'nt a strictly linux question, but i guess everyone has an M$ Box somewhere. What's the best in your opinion as to what anti-virus prog to use?

i suggest to use norton or panda, you can choose one of them.

I say Norton....I like their Yellow colour,

For non-linux questions, feel free to use the General forum, this forum is Linux - General

Don't worry about it, it will be moved accordingly

Cool

Like you said, not Linux strictly question so its being moved to General. Regards.

no anti-virus. false security.

Norton Corporate version 8.0 for Windows AD Network and desktops.

Trend Micro AV for Exchange server.

McAfee used to be good but sux now

I picked Norton, mostly because I've been using it for like 2 years and it's never asked me to pay for a new subscription...

Norton Corporate AV works great for me... very small and doesn't take up many resources.

Definitely Norton; it catches stuff McAfee doesn't.

1) clamav on the mail server (qmail)
2) clamav on the file server (samba)
3) Only one MS machine and it's running Symantec/Norton. After the license expires in March of next year it'll probably be purged of the MS vector.

Well back when I used a virus prone OS I used Computer Associates InoculateIT. It was free back then. Alot has changed. Fruit of the Loom now have two solid blue lines around them... weird! Change is difficult but necessary.

I would rather have a virus on my machine than an antivirus. Most virus's are coded better than the AV and they don't give near the problems, keep up on updates and you won't get most virus's, try to be on a provider that scans your email for virus's and that gets rid of the rest.

When I worked for a couple of colleges most of my day was spent trying to fix AV problems, most of the times the person would have a virus because they never updated there AV and the ones that did the update would make there mail stop working, or there computer freeze every time they tried to print, or make there computer not be able to shut down. etc...

The fix to all the problems shown above, turn off AV and the problem goes away, how nice. I will take a virus on my system any day.

Oh and as a side note when people ask me what antivirus I use I always tell them linux :-) I can see them going to the store to by the Linux AV :-)

I have used both, but I find norton easier to configure and update.

Actually, when I was running Windows on my computer I used F-Prot DOS. Best of them all, for my money.

I don't like Norton because I don't like the idea that I have to pay annually for updates. F-Prot DOS is free.