Antivirus Software Reviews, Ratings, Comparisons

Check out this huge list of Free Online Virus Scanners. When we have time we will review them.

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I really can not tell if I like ESET as personal bias or if Nod 32 and Smart Security 3 are really just that good. Every time I install it I seam to have no problems and it seams to work flawlessly with my 64 bit windows XP corporate operating system. Nod32 does not even have any issues with my Linux installed as a dual boot.

I did notice one slow down the other day. I was receiving an update in virus definitions when my computer froze. I had to hit Control+Alt+Delete to bring up the task manager and kill internet explores 8 which I had in emulate IE7 mode. Once I killed the process I waited a second or two and then everything was back to normal.

I think this weekend I will do a full virus scan of my whole computer, including all my SATA and SCSI storage drives just to see if anything turns up.

My work computer is an HP laptop that has a dual Vista Ultimate 32 bit version on the C: drive and a second ubuntu boot on the D: drive. I installed Kaspersky Antivirus on that machine to see if it could catch any unwanted pests. Not exactly sure what to think yet, my work system is boot very slow and often hangs. To be fair, I am running a ton of applications, and I am not the only one on my domain that is having problems with outlook crashing. God forbid a virus could be causing that!

I was a little curious about its results, since the kaspersky scan results show that I have two viruses; one being my install of the webmasterradio.fm streaming video client, and the other one in some zip file I downloaded from some threat prominent website. So I kind of expected the later of the two to be found, but am still very interested in why the webmasterradio.fm client was detected as a virus.

I installed BitDefender 2008 a couple weeks ago and am relatively happy with the results. The install was really straight forward, and it has exactly the functionality I would expect from a antivirus solution.

I was very impressed with Bitdefender's ability to perform a deep scan and even found some viruses I was very surprised to see. However, my computer shuts off every time I get to one particular virus that I cant seem to get rid of. I know where it is since I have a dual boot I was able to boot up my secondary 64 bit XP install and use the free Bitdefender online scanner to find all the same problems as the full program found, the difference being my computer was able to finish the scan and generate a report about where the viruses in question are located.