Category: Geeks r Us
Has anyone heard of this anti virous program? What are your thoughts? Experiences? Thanks!
ahh! now here's a beautiful proggy! There are a lot of options to configure, so ya kind of have to be someone who knows a lot about those types of things. I happened to snag a program that makes XML files to configure it when doing a silent install. you'll need to disable the nod32 graphical interface for it to be totally accessible with jaws.
I know it's recommended by GW Micro. However I checked their web page and it seems a tad bit expensive to me, $27 for 1 year renewal license, $50 to $80 for 1 to 2 year purchase.
Well, it's not terrible but if you have someone to help you with mail in rebates, for instance, you can get the whole Norton suite, including firewall and system recovery for $14 ($84 with $70 mail in rebate) or McCafe virus for free ($60 with $60 mail in rebate) both from www.buy.com.
I, personally, haven't used this anti virus so not sure how good it is but never seen it in the top 10 anti virus ratings anywhere, I've seen the other two, Panda and one called Bit Defender, which I used and was quite happy with, for a year, then it started somehow messing with my email and blocking it so I gave up on it.
It's worth a try but there are cheaper options out there that are, supposedly, better accessible with Jaws.
cheers
-B
It's the best, Norton and such are given with rebate because they are the biggest and most well known. I can't remember the antivirus magazine that I get results from, but on testing in over 7 years Nod32 hasn't missed a single in the wild virus during independant testing which means it wins the award for best product every time. yes it's maybe a little expensive for the first year at I think $40 but is then cheaper for subscription afterwards. it doesn't use much of your system resources, and so can do full system scans in the background without making much of an impact on your usual pc use. and yes as Blake says turn of the graphical interface, and it works a treat with Windoweyes.
Hi my desktop is using nod32 with out any problems. I just leave it aloan and it scans updates and all of that even while I am at work. I do have avg free on my laptop and that is good as well.
Just my thoughts.
BB, cool, thanks for that info. In that case I should look more into this progrm.
Cheers
-B
I would. I think I paid 27 dallars for a one year subscribtion or something like that.
Ok, those of you with nod32 experience, does it have email scan for outlook express? I see outlook there, but express. Thanks!
If you turn on the MAPI option, Nod32 should scn your mail, whatever client you're using. I use Thunderbird; it checks my mail, and puts that certification bit at the bottom. . Nod is also checking for addware, spies, etc, unless I've misconfigured iomething.
Hmmm, the mappi option?
That is intrestingg.
I haven't tried it but have heard some good things about it. I current use norton and I've also used AVG which I find very accessible.
Troy
I've been using the free version of AVG anti virus. I find it has actually worked very well, scans my emails and has kept my computer virus free without any interuptions to my work. I have to say I'm impressed, no spam, no advertisements all the time, no pop ups, just free anti virus that, so fr, has worked, if it fails I might look into other options.
cheers
-B
B, I used to use it, until I found that on occasions it would find a virus but be unable to clean it. so I moved on, then used EZ armour which again I thought was good until I tried the demo of nod32, and it found 2 viruses that the others had missed, because of what and where they were, I knew they'd been about for a while. Antivirus protection is one of the few things I think we're wrong to believe we can have well done for free, but just an opinion.
I have always used AVG and never had a problemm!