So how many of you are gonna run out and change your free university provided antivirus? Todays the day.

http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/news/4939a212

ncsu.edu/antivirus

1/12/2009 12:00:05 PM

haven't used antivirus in about 4 years

1/12/2009 12:21:36 PM

1/12/2009 12:48:11 PM

no way am I going to use that garbage

1/12/2009 1:00:56 PM

Quote :

"Because our license for Symantec products will expire prior to the end of the fiscal year, OIT will take the campus Symantec parent servers offline on Monday, June 22, 2009."

So no, I'll only start to think about it in 5-6 months.

1/12/2009 1:15:08 PM

trend micro has some good reviews, is it not better than what they had?

1/12/2009 1:16:49 PM

Truth be told I'd only care about memory usage. Which uses less?

1/12/2009 1:19:35 PM

Trend Micro. hands down. Symantec's corporate products have gone to shit in the past year.

1/12/2009 1:23:12 PM

Trend Micro and McAffee are the best ones on the market right now. The Symantec shit sucks and their Norton Antivirus is ridiculously cpu intensive.

Quote :

"haven't used antivirus in about 4 years"

I haven't used any for over a year. I occasionally run Spybot.

[Edited on January 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM. Reason : :]

1/12/2009 2:15:46 PM

I work at a computer repair place, I would NEVER put McAffee on any of my computers. I would say a large majority of virus removals that I have to perform had McAffee as their antivirus.

TrendMicro seems to do very well though.

1/12/2009 4:03:58 PM

I would never put McAfee or Symantec (Consumer) on someone's computer ... the Symantec Corporate products were lightweight enough until they hit version 10 and 11 ... that said, still don't like either of those companies bloated software.

I've not used Trend Micro before but never heard anything negative.

1/12/2009 4:23:33 PM

put it on my windows 7 install, just for S&G. runs in background 5 processes 32mb total.

1/12/2009 4:25:22 PM

get a mac, you wont need the shit then

1/12/2009 4:27:55 PM

How can I persuade my father to delete the Norton Systemsworks program he's got and let me install this basic antivirus for him?

1/12/2009 4:39:17 PM

i cant figure how to update definitions with trend micro

1/12/2009 4:51:35 PM

right click on the icon, select Update Now

1/12/2009 4:52:28 PM

dur, thanks

1/12/2009 4:58:50 PM

mcafee enterprise 8.7 is what i have right now

whatever

1/12/2009 5:07:38 PM

kaspersky is teh best

1/13/2009 4:19:17 AM

buy a NOD32 license for 10 dollars.

1/13/2009 7:33:43 AM

Quote :

"no way am I going to use that garbage"

1/13/2009 8:57:24 AM

Quote :

"How can I persuade my father to delete the Norton Systemsworks program he's got and let me install this basic antivirus for him?"

offer to 'update' his computer and do it for him

1/13/2009 9:02:27 AM

bttt

1/15/2009 6:49:30 PM

Kaspersky or NOD32, everything else is bloated and/or worthless.

1/15/2009 6:53:44 PM

Quote :

"buy a NOD32 license for 10 dollars."

where can you get a NOD32 license for $10?

1/15/2009 8:36:06 PM

occasionally at newegg or frys
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/16435

1/15/2009 9:13:47 PM

http://technicianonline.com/news/university_switches_antivirus_providers-1.1316930


[Edited on January 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM. Reason : .]

1/29/2009 9:52:19 AM

running trend micro on a friend's machine (student).

installed very quickly, running a scan now. scan speed isn't bad.

still won't give up symantec until i have to.

1/31/2009 2:48:50 PM

Link to get Symantec taken off the university site yesterday

http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/news/4939a212

I probably wont switch them out but Ill put on Trend Micro on any new machines i work with as I get them.

1/31/2009 6:35:55 PM

^ What will you do after June 22?

1/31/2009 10:10:23 PM

nod32 for me.

1/31/2009 11:26:20 PM

if someone will send me the new exe you'll be my new best friend

plz to pm

1/31/2009 11:50:29 PM

anyone have the updated symantec remover tool for vista? it's not a huge deal, as i can get the student to access it later, but i wanted to be ready in the mean time.

2/1/2009 12:00:06 AM

? http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Norton_Removal_Tool_for_Windows_2000XPVista/1169144666/1

2/1/2009 12:03:36 AM

^^ help desk ought to be able to hook you up now

[Edited on February 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM. Reason : fuck it]

2/1/2009 12:15:14 AM

the person who works for them mentioned on here that the retail and corporate versions use a different remover.

2/1/2009 1:04:47 AM