What's the worst Antivirus program you experience?
from the program itself, from the tech support people or customer service of these antivirus programs?
By the program itself I would say Mcafee. There's worst like the AVG or similars, but they're free, so we can't ask much from them 
AVG is fine, apart from the latest version having a computer-slowing Resident Shield, which I disabled on mine and it's great 
But the two worst which I hate with a passion:
Norton Anti-Virus from 2003 and beyond
McAfee (every version that I've had to deal with)
Please, PLEASE don't get Norton anti-virus! It's AWFUL.
Use AVG, Norman Virus Control or VET. | David_Pardy wrote: |
AVG is fine, apart from the latest version having a computer-slowing Resident Shield, which I disabled on mine and it's great
But the two worst which I hate with a passion:
Norton Anti-Virus from 2003 and beyond
McAfee (every version that I've had to deal with)
Please, PLEASE don't get Norton anti-virus! It's AWFUL.
Use AVG, Norman Virus Control or VET. |
Back in the day, Norton was amazing.. what happened? Stupid people started buying it and relay on it for everything, making it a shitty program because it keeps acting like a babysitter.
l used pirated keys on Kaspersky, cause l don't have a way too buy it around here during the times l was using it, and was getting angry with it, it kept detecting WLM.exe as a virus, no matter what l do, it just did. NO IT WASN'T A WARE, IT WAS ONLY A KEY WITH A LEGIT PROGRAM FROM KASPERSKY THEMSELVES. (before a war starts over this).
NOD32 was fine and dandy till it turned out wasn't working right, now l'm on ClamWin (also using it portable aswell)Norton certainly was great!
Then Symantec bought them. It's all Symantec's fault.
in 2001 norton. suddenly i found my pc full of virus
then avast. i wrongly enter the serial number, the next day it display some message about avast pro. i never thought something is wrong until i connect to my office VPN and found out avast just disabled itself if you enter the wrong serial number, and it was too late then.
I've pretty much have had the same experience with all of them. On a side note, I love when people come to where I work and complain that they have a virus. I look at their computer and they have the free version of AVG installed. Why don't people understand that they get what they pay for.
| Scubaman2051 wrote: |
| I've pretty much have had the same experience with all of them. On a side note, I love when people come to where I work and complain that they have a virus. I look at their computer and they have the free version of AVG installed. Why don't people understand that they get what they pay for. |
ClamWin is free and opensource, and it's amazing. l don't see how this compares too a retail of av or anti-spyware, it's the programmers and hackers that make a great software in this category. Its the user that fills the pc, some common pc procedures and a decent, even free (none of thos, you have a virus! scan here! schemes) and behind a dynamic IP router, slim too none. Been anti-virus free in years and l download ALOT.clamwin don't have "on access" scanner.
do you really think you can always scan before you run/open/finish downloaded each and every files? what if the virus already loaded in memory?
read their FAQ.
Norton anti virus. I legally won Norton Systemworks in a contest and it just sucked. Ridiculously slow and after a while it kept complaining that I needed to register it again. What's the point in getting a legal anti-virus program that'll work for a year only.
I've tried several anti-virus programs like kerpersky, Norton, Nod32, AVG,....... In all i think they all have their flaws as hackers are working tooth to tooth to break these anti-virus program. Am currently using Avast pro, so far so good, there's been no problem. Hope it continues................... Norton Antivirus, they always hogs too much resources for me. Btw is it a good idea to run multiple anti virus a once, I'm currently using Symantec and AVG at the same time on my laptop.
Norton Antivirus just makes my Computer slow and complains to register soon. I think it is Symantic version.
You shouldn't run more than one anti-virus scanner on a computer.
I still stand by Norman Virus Control as the best commercial software.
Norton, totally annoying like it embeds itself on to the OS and tiring process in uninstalling + annoying
AVG too, simply because its a resource hog.
AVG is horrible. One of the worst free antivirus products. It wasn't so bad a few version ago, but now it's horrible.
EDIT: Doing a test on a VMWare System AVG is horrible. It let through 3/5 viruses installed on the machine. I installed my current AV (NOD32) and it detected it without any problems. In the line of free, Avira or Avast would probably do the same.
I do give AVG +1 for being the only free program that has more than just antivirus, it's attempting to bunch everything into it's program which is good, but the detection rates are horrible.
Go with something else if you either have the money, or go with Avira (99.7% detection rate according to AV-Comparatives) or Avast.
windows pro 2009
or something like that, though tit was a windows product and took hours days to get rid of
Spydoctor kept giving me a pop up, funnily enough pop off went when i uninstalled spydoctor
the one i use now is Mcafee, which was the first i used back in 2000
no known problems since
Slash, if you mean Antivirus Pro 2009 then you machine is/was possibly infected. It is a well known piece of rogue software and should be removed immediately. Please refer to the link below for removal:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-removal/remove-antivirus-pro-2009
This rogue software steals credit card information, banking information and passwords. I think McAfee and Norton are the worst antivirus packages I have used. Not very good on resources.
The worst I tried is Norton. A lot of memory ram used, slow etc
I like Nod32 as a paid one. Free anti virus i like Avast
Norton and AVG because they are resource hogs and Norton can not be installed completely always leaves some component behind .
and McAfee for trying to babysit me
Norton is horrible. It slows you down more than what it's worth. Now I'm using linux so no antivirus needed (it feels like paradise this way).
My friend had Norton Antivirus and we scanned the computer and it said that no viruses. Then I scanned it again with AVG free version and it found about 30 - 40 viruses. 
I was shocked because Norton is supposed to be a great program but apparantly it didn't get the job done... I personally don't recommend Norton Antivirus!!! yeah, Norton must be a winner here , very good at early days, but s*cked bad after that. The detection rate is low, and it's pretty resource intensive too from my experience. I would have to say that McAfee has to be the worst hands down. When I had a new internet connection set up a while ago from Comcast they installed McAfee onto my computer without me even knowing. It comes with the "package" as a free gift I guess. I couldnt stand the program. All it did was slow down my computer, give false errors and readings, and sucked up way to many resources. I got rid of the program as soon as possible. (within about an hour of getting my computer hooked up and running)
My old favorite, when using Windows 95 (when it first came out) was hands down Norton. That was the top of the line anti-virus program out at its time. After XP came out they started to make new versions of Norton which all it did was about the same as McAfee does. Slowed down the computer BIG time and was just way to big and bulky. I got rid of that program after about 2 weeks of use and then turned to AVG.
I find that AVG is a very well balanced Anti-Virus. It seems to run smoothly without to much slow down on the computer along with a pretty decent detection rate. I have been using it for about 3 years now without any issues. I have heard a lot of good things about NOD32 as well but havent given it a try. My friends that are computer savy say that it is a very light weight program that has a very nice virus detection.
The worst one are random free ones ones that people download from pop ups and then complain that there new "anti virus" is slowing down their computer.
Way back i used to use norton, but.. meh... currently i'm using AVG but i hate it. I'm a coder, and when i'm making client/server apps, i generally try to 'hack' my own apps by packet editing and AVG detects my packet editor as a sniffer so it locks it out.. Quite annoying. My laptop on the other hand, has Malware Bytes installed, and i haven't ran into any problems .. yet.
McAfee, hands down.
It wouldn't even remove itself from my computer, not to mention that it wasn't very good at staving off viruses... 
McAfee is the worst I've ever seen. It slowed down my computer horribly every time it did a scan or updated.
Norton Internet Security - slowed my PC a lot, but it was rubbish in case of detecting viruses. Same Panda, awful firewall, but quite nice antyvirus module.
| Whong wrote: |
| My friend had Norton Antivirus and we scanned the computer and it said that no viruses. Then I scanned it again with AVG free version and it found about 30 - 40 viruses. |
No chance it was coming up with "tracking cookies" and other mostly harmless stuff? It seems a lot of virus programs point out tracking cookies in almost a way that they seem more important than viruses. Sure it's great that it removes them, but seems to just be the program trying to justify its usage most often. | jdelfire wrote: |
What's the worst Antivirus program you experience?
from the program itself, from the tech support people or customer service of these antivirus programs? |
Hey, peace
I hate norton products, such as norton antivirus. I own a five year (if not older) computer which has low specs. Norton slowed down my computer greatly, and didn't always catch a virus. It's ridicolously overpriced (although to be fair, most antivirus programs are), and has far too few features. You have to pay even more to get norton internet security.
This is a fairly recent list on the best antivirus programs, if anyone is interested:
http://www.virus.gr/portal/en/content/2008-06%2C-1-21-june (scroll down for the list).
Thanks.Mine would have to be Lavasoft or McAffee thye both leave massive footprints and can often mess with your registry real bad.
AVG,Panda,Norton,Avast <= these are my opinions
Norton is very system hungry although I'm led to believe the new version is much better. I've never liked Norton to be honest.
norton anti virus is the worst of its kind. done know how people still believe in their crapy software. so bulky and takes up all the free memory we have in our system
the best one would b nod32. takes so little memory and does its work flawlessly. norton antivirus is getting bulky as time passes by. nobody should go for norton.
mcafee and NOD32 .. nothign can beat them when it comes to worst antivirus
I've used Norton, MacAfee and Kaspersky. MacAfee was the first anti-virus software I used. Norton seemed to be better, and I have used it for about 6 years. I am now using Kaspersky and I find it more lightweight. Only criticism against Norton for me was that it gobbled up a lot of system resources and I was always aware it was there. I'm barely aware of Kaspersky, and so far so good. I started with Kaspersky last year. I would not be able to describe any of the three as "worst". Perhaps "worst" is more prevalent among some of the free anti-virus software?
For me AVG is the worst one, I dont care its free. The next one i hate is Trend Micro OfficeScan.
i think no antivirus is upto user satisfaction
but to some extent i like symentec.
because i have use avg....... avira...... avast,,,,,,,,
but i found symentec help me to protect against viruses more then others like avast, avg.
but this is my opinion and whats your about it , i dont know,
anyway i agree to some people that it degrade system performance, mean it use more resources like hdd space , cpu etc
so thats all my knowledge and experience about symentec and other antiviruses
nice topic started by starter
thanx
goodbye
AVG Free… I had problem when I tried to remove it. 
I also had some serious problem with removing ZoneAlarm and NOD32…
That’s why I keep distance from these programs now and I must admit I wouldn’t dare to install them again. Maybe it was only something about my system but... no thanks.
I don’t want to go through complete process of reinstalling Windows; it is like a punishment for trying some AV… Never again. 
McAffee is the antivirus program I don't like. One can get better help from AVG.
McAffee was horrible when we had it. It was slow and didn't do a very good job. Avira's been much better =D
Norton just slowed down my pc and it's virus detection capacity is too worse.Not satisfied with avg free but no complain because it's the free version.
Anything except Kaspersky, ESET, or Microsoft Security Essentials is the worst. Those programs are great; shit like Norton or McAfee are viruses themselves.
Norton was the baddest ever since i can think about AV. Now it should be the best in the tests?
How much did the Norton People pay for that?
Panda AV is influencing almost every Prog in progress on the PC, Bitdefender has a bad virus detection,
Avira Prof. is good for old PCs, the personal Version is free and good enogh for the basics.
Kaspersky AV seems to keep the balance beetween Software detection and Performance after all
and is my favorite right now.
Worst AV I had was Norton AV 2004, 2005.
Also Mcafee was a hoarder.
In my experience, every version of Norton and McAfee I've used has been hopelessly awful. Took up immense resources, had a price tag, and didn't even pick up some viruses. After those two, I used AVG, which was nice. I also use Avira on some systems, and actually, I think I prefer Avira over all the ones I've used. (Haven't tried NOD32).
