Perfect. Now *this* is useful information! Several people have now posted their own experiences with the various software packages, rather than merely repeating what he/she has heard from others. So many of these rumors (yep, that's what many of them are) get so exaggerated that they serve no other purpose than to simply propogate themselves further. I mean honestly, would anyone want the opinion of someone on a given item when he/she has never even used it? At least Mr. Guvernment did preface part of his post stating that he heard some of it, so that does let the reader know. But in other cases, persons have declared that a given product is horrible only to find out later that it was a really old version still being used and/or it was improperly installed/configured. Opinions can be valuble, but all I ask is that they be somewhat based in fact.

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However, the free version did not protect email

Actually, thats not quite true. It depends largely on your email client and how it handles attachments. Given that Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express (and probably others, including the complete Outlook) download mail and attachments into encoded container files then InoculateIT Real-Time Protection can't scan them. Opera's built in email client however downloads messages and attachments seperately and stores them on the disk as such meaning the Real-Time Protection can scan them. Of course, this information is only helpful if you use Opera or another email client that behaves the same way...

Why is iy always me who brings up the name Sophos? has anyone even bothered to try Sophos Sweep for NT? Its damn good. It automatically detects the viruses via the IC monitor, and leaves it to you to do what you want with it!!! Pretty good, if you keep the files up to date and surf the net alot (like me!!!). others arent bad, but my experiance with Sophos makes me recommend it to anyone!!!

"Opera's built in email client however downloads messages and attachments seperately and stores them on the disk as such meaning the Real-Time Protection can scan them. Of course, this information is only helpful if you use Opera or another email client that behaves the same way..." ... and you want to continue to use a piece of software that is now extinct.

NAV Corp 7.6 is the one

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Why is iy always me who brings up the name Sophos? has anyone even bothered to try Sophos Sweep for NT?

Actually, if you go to the 7th post, you'll see this:

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So, while I haven't used it, I did mention it.

My Mistake! Sorry!

Umm, Immortal....You may want to change that to NT4. NT 3.51 kicked @$$....and still did for many years to come over 9x.

Yeah well, i was just talking about NT in general, not a specific version!!! I know that NT 3.51 was ok, but NT4 was had more to give really. Anyway as i said i was talking about NT in general, but if you still feel i should change to NT4 let me know!

Nah, it's your sig man and your pretty much right. NT4 did surpass Novell as the OS of choice for business and still is and will be for some time to come.
 
It just sounded from your sig like NT popped into being after 95.

I'm a fan of Norton Corp 7.6, but I'm running AVG Pro on some systems. Works quite nicely, but the interface is a bit clunky.

So Sophos for XP is better than Mcafee and AVG Pro?
 
also does AntiVir Personal Free Edition have an email scanner?

i think norton antivirus 2002 is best program available...

Yeah its true NT 3.51 did come before 95, but I havent used NT 3.51 at all! I started to use NT 4.0 when my 95 system wouldnt work properly, all those years ago!!! Thats when I realised what kind of OS NT really is, and thats why i got 2k Pro when it came out, and XP Pro!!!
And on the Anti-Virus matter, I still like Sophos Sweep for NT most.

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... and you want to continue to use a piece of software that is now extinct.

Geez... how difficult is it to use the "quote" function...

Anyway, I worded that post completely wrong. What I meant was that while the product was still supported it did check email so long as it is downloaded as seperate files the ways Opera's mail client does. I know that from experience since it caught a couple of viruses that were sent to my folks (I have my machine check their account so I can catch messages from our ISP). I don't use the product now anymore because no updates are made for it. Instead, like I said earlier, we're now using an email checking service provided by our ISP which is proving quite effective.

I've tried many av products..and from my experience best antivirus scanners has to be PC Cillin 2002 and Kaspersky Personal Pro ver.4 or late. They have too many features unlikely 'everywhere sponsored' Norton AV's. Faster and efective than NAV in all comparative tests etc. I'm workin on win XP , Cel.667mhz, 320MB Ram,20GB hdd,GeForce 2mx 400 64MB,and so far no problems at all with

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Honestly, it's truly amazing how "they" seem to have all these problems with McAfee software and "they" seem to never have a name, nor can back up anything with hard evidence. But man, "they" have the biggest mouths out there and can share their "knowledge" with everyone. I pretty much expected a huge influx of Norton fanboys coming in, but I figured I'd post anyway.

Also, you might want to check out Panda or Sophos, or just do a search on antivirus on this forum as some have posted links to different applications you might have interest in.

The persons name is richard = TrueHostRich at my work.

to me the name was irrelevant as u did not know the person at all.This did happen, and i have hard evidence cause i was the one on the phone with him for about 2 hours trying to get his computer to work.

so THEY does exist and it is not simply me trying to put down McAfee.

I guess things like this alwasy end up as mostly "i heard" which is EVER so true, that is why i try not to comment on something i have simply "heard" about, or i state that i only "heard" about it

were as many other do "assume" that because they "heard" it, it has to be true, these are the people who rush home every night to read their daily copy of the National Enquirer. (typo?)

First, in your post you claimed that you had "heard nothing but hporry stories", so that would lead myself (and others I would imagine) to believe that there were several times you have been told/have read about problems with this software but the only thing you offered was something about writing to the boot partition (which sounds more like a virus than the application) as your reason why the software was poor. If you have evidence, or personal experience, or something more than rumors then great, but if not why bother? You do state that you can show this, so what version was it? What engine version? What OS was it? Tell the person asking the question more useful information if you have it, that's all I ask.
 

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Plenty, but we have worked around it.

use Pc-Cillin 2002.
 
It gives me no problems, it loads fast and does what it is suppose to do. None of this flashy stuff like McAfee has and it isn't as expensive.

I had a problem with Norton 2001 when Nimda was out. They hadn't updated their AV definitions until the 2nd week the virus was out. Not only did it infect my computer (thanks to an idiot on my network) but it would not clean it. It had no problems sending files to quarentine (same ones every boot, even after I disabled the shares) but would neither delete nor clean the files. The one saving grace Norton has is how easy it is to use. The GUI is very clean and straight-forward.
 
I installed PC-Cillin 2000 which not only detected the virus immediately but deleted them the first time. I never heard from Nimda again. It has nowhere near the amount of frills as the other AV software packages but 1) it gets the job done, 2) doesn't take up much by way of resources, and 3) came free with my mobo.
 
In upgrading to WinXp, I thought I'd install McAfee 6 Pro w/ the built-in firewall. The firewall is a pain in the butt to configure. I put some of my progs (like MSN) on the allow list and every time it loads, I have to click 2 windows each program for the firewall to allow it to access the outside. Also, after a file transfer, its scanner hogs resources and won't give them back until you open their screen and hit ok. I do like the QuickClean Lite feature even though I really don't use it much.