Anti-Vir sucks- need a free av

[ghettoside]

I'm setting up a box for my bud's kids, a K62 @ 500Mhz w/192 Mb RAM.

Anyway, I tried nod32 and it crashed the box, so I installed Anti-Vir, which I haven't run in a while. This new version sucks.

Had to uninstall Anti-Vir, it kept telling me a bunch of win .dll's are infected w/ a trojan that apparently doesn't even exist. WTF. I'd just done a clean install and had not connected to the internet yet, there's no way there are trojans or viruses on the box. Updating the av did not help, nor did updating the OS. I had a hard time uninstalling that pos app too, it would not stop alerting me of the supposedly infected files even when I disabled the av guard, and the instant I clicked on ignore or deny acces, the damn thing would just pop up again instantly and hung up the uninstall. I had to go into msconfig and turn it off there, then after reboot I was able to uninstall that pos. I never had such problems with Anti-Vir over the past 3 or 4 years. I've been recommending Anti-Vir as a freeware av... that is going to change now.
What a total piece of crap!

I need a free av that has a light footprint, any recommendations?

[YeOldeStonecat]

Sounds like it's too infected to actually install a cleaner...if installing NOD32 (one of the best) crashed it. I'd slave the drive to a healthy PC with a quality AV...scan/clean it.

As for freebie AVs...I don't like AVG anymore, never really liked Avast...eTrust is the top freebie AV IMO.

[ghettoside]

Sounds like it's too infected to actually install a cleaner...if installing NOD32 (one of the best) crashed it. I'd slave the drive to a healthy PC with a quality AV...scan/clean it.

As for freebie AVs...I don't like AVG anymore, never really liked Avast...eTrust is the top freebie AV IMO.

It's a clean install Stonecat, that's why I was trippin ;) The hdd came from my #2 box and for sure it was clean. I wiped only the mbr, and had setup create partition and format. And I ran this K62 box daily for at least half a year- w/ the same OS installed, xp pro sp2. When Nod crashed it, then Anti-Vir gave me problems, I was trippin to say the least, lol. The mobo is from a gateway... my 2nd j/p'd box last year. Was a workhorse for me.

I don't like AVG or Avast either. :thumb:

eTrust. Thanks. :cool:

LOL, I looked at the sys requirements for Nod32 again. It says 300 Mhz Pentium/Celeron/AMD 128 Mb RAM 30 Mb disk space. I said to myself :wth:
So I tried Nod again. This time n/p. Ran so well I've got the box o/c'd to 560Mhz now lol.

I've noticed since I switched to Nod32 my systems seem more responsive. I still have NAV on a xp pro sp2 partition, and I really notice the difference when I boot into that OS. Thanks for that tip too.

I'd told my bud I'd hook his kids up w/ this old box of mine for $25. Kinda a lot to go thru for $25...:rotfl:

[ghettoside]

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As for freebie AVs...I don't like AVG anymore, never really liked Avast...eTrust is the top freebie AV IMO.

Darn, I went to download eTrust and I don't see a freeware version. :confused:

Looks good though.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Google baby..Google!
First hit
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/

[ghettoside]

Google baby..Google!
First hit
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/

:eek: :eek: :eek:

:rotfl:

here's what I'd found lol (http://store.digitalriver.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=ProductDetailsPage&SiteID=caconsum&productID=35180700&Env=BASE)

thanks Stonecat. :thumb:

[mnosteele52]

That's odd and Microsoft removed it from their Vista certified free antivirus options. I just downloaded it 3 days ago when I installed Vista on my laptop and it was free.

:confused:

[Shinobi]

I'm setting up a box for my bud's kids, a K62 @ 500Mhz w/192 Mb RAM.

Anyway, I tried nod32 and it crashed the box, so I installed Anti-Vir, which I haven't run in a while. This new version sucks.

Had to uninstall Anti-Vir, it kept telling me a bunch of win .dll's are infected w/ a trojan that apparently doesn't even exist. WTF. I'd just done a clean install and had not connected to the internet yet, there's no way there are trojans or viruses on the box. Updating the av did not help, nor did updating the OS. I had a hard time uninstalling that pos app too, it would not stop alerting me of the supposedly infected files even when I disabled the av guard, and the instant I clicked on ignore or deny acces, the damn thing would just pop up again instantly and hung up the uninstall. I had to go into msconfig and turn it off there, then after reboot I was able to uninstall that pos. I never had such problems with Anti-Vir over the past 3 or 4 years. I've been recommending Anti-Vir as a freeware av... that is going to change now.
What a total piece of crap!

I need a free av that has a light footprint, any recommendations?

I'm using Avast!.. It's pretty good.. The memory footprint is a little on the heavy side.. check it out.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

[ghettoside]

That's odd and Microsoft removed it from their Vista certified free antivirus options. I just downloaded it 3 days ago when I installed Vista on my laptop and it was free.

:confused:

thanks for the heads up on possible urgency of grabbing that free download, I just went and got it.

I'd gone to that digital river link and etrust's other site. (S/N: 00039033098657 070-02284-GR)

Maybe I'm connecting to a crappy google data center... I didn't see that link Stonecat posted, not on the first page of results anyway.

[ghettoside]

I'm using Avast!.. It's pretty good.. The memory footprint is a little on the heavy side.. check it out.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

I admit it's been a few years since I tried Avast, and it's soley because of my past experience w/ that app that I do not like it.

A main concern is finding a freeware av that has a light footprint and yet is effective w/o a lot of false positives.

I appreciate the input Shinobi. I'll give it a shot soon, as well as Stonecat's recommendation.

I have a few old clients that are running P1's & 2's still, running win98se. I am sort of expecting at least some work to come after 98 reaches it's end of life. Most of those clients will doubtless want to try and run xp on the old equipment, and beleive it or not, most are using freeware av. I'm surprised I haven't gotten any complaints about Anti-Vir. Come to think of it, I did have 2, but they were last year and didn't require my presence, handled by phone.

[Shinobi]

I have a few old clients that are running P1's & 2's still, running win98se. I am sort of expecting at least some work to come after 98 reaches it's end of life. Most of those clients will doubtless want to try and run xp on the old equipment, and beleive it or not, most are using freeware av. I'm surprised I haven't gotten any complaints about Anti-Vir. Come to think of it, I did have 2, but they were last year and didn't require my presence, handled by phone.


Wow.. First Gen Pentium's.. wow.. cool! :) For P1's.. ya.. Avast would be too much.. I would probally go with Grisoft's Free AVG.. really. I know some people have wingged that program to the side.. but it's might be the way to go.. I have Grisoft's Free AVG running on a First Gen Pentium Laptop, with only a 500 meg hard drive and 16 megs of ram. (and some mapped networked drives :) )

[ghettoside]

Wow.. First Gen Pentium's.. wow.. cool! :) For P1's.. ya.. Avast would be too much.. I would probally go with Grisoft's Free AVG.. really. I know some people have wingged that program to the side.. but it's might be the way to go.. I have Grisoft's Free AVG running on a First Gen Pentium Laptop, with only a 500 meg hard drive and 16 megs of ram. (and some mapped networked drives :) )

Just about anything is too much for those p1's lol.

I appreciate the suggestion of avg, but I've worked on enough boxes running avg to make me steer clear of it. Had problems myself once, after an update, avg saw my vid card drivers as a virus... and my mouse as well. That was win98 several years ago.

More power to ya tho... myself I saw only bad things w/ avg.

lol, 500Mb hdd and 16Mb RAM.

I have a compaq lte 5280 here w/ 32 Mb RAM and a 2.1 Gb hdd. Needs a hdd tho, I sold it to my bud before I went to vegas and he spilled a beer on it while it was running. I pulled the hdd... sure enough was all sticky inside the hdd casing. It's so old I told him not worth buying an hdd for it.

it should be interesting when win98 update support dies and I have to migrate to xp on those p1's and 2's.

thanks Shinobi. :thumb:

I'm really disapponted with Anti-Vir, that app had such a light footprint

[Shinobi]

it should be interesting when win98 update support dies and I have to migrate to xp on those p1's and 2's.


P2 should be ok I would think.. not sure about those P1's ,, maybe.. if they are at 233MHZ with 128 megs of ram... ok... I'm rambling..
LOL.. L8ter. :thumb:

[ghettoside]

P2 should be ok I would think.. not sure about those P1's ,, maybe.. if they are at 233MHZ with 128 megs of ram... ok... I'm rambling..
LOL.. L8ter. :thumb:

Yups, I doubt those P1's will handle it. I wouldn't even try xp on them myself, but I expect that 2 of my clients (w/ a total of 4 P1 boxes between them) will want to try and get away w/o upgrading their equipment.

If they don't wanna take my advice and have me install xp... n/p... they're gonna pay for that, that's all. :rotfl:

I have a rep for being honest, that's how I got most of those customers in Zion. I tell 'em like it is, and iffen they then wanna go another route first that's cheaper, I say "ok- but you've been warned and it's your money."

There was this local guy screwing all these little businesses to the tune of $110/hr... and $110 up front just to walk in the door, regardless of whether or not he was there 10 minutes or the full hour. I heard from several of these little businesses that dude would come in, then say he needed something and then not return for 3 or 4 days. LOL, dude had to go look for the answers... I impressed the first couple of clients w/ fixing their probs on the spot... and offer free consultation. I was starving, on layoff from a machinist job, so my prices were dirt cheap, and that helped bring me biz too. Those first couple of refereneces went a long way. :D

[YeOldeStonecat]

P2 should be ok I would think.. not sure about those P1's ,, maybe.. if they are at 233MHZ with 128 megs of ram... ok... I'm rambling..
LOL.. L8ter. :thumb:

Yeah they'll do OK..I did Win2K on P2 300's and still have an old P2 400 laptop with 192 megs of RAM..running 2K. I wouldn't feel like trying to shove XP on those rigs though. :nope:

[Croc]

Hi Cat. Read this and thought about trying eTrust. Used to use the predecessor InnoculateIt when it was around.

Anyway, it's great and I installed it on Mrs.C's as well. Still believe AVG is underrated but it's time to get a bit adventurous. ;)

Thanks for the linkage. :thumb:

[YeOldeStonecat]

Hi Cat. Read this and thought about trying eTrust. Used to use the predecessor InnoculateIt when it was around.

Anyway, it's great and I installed it on Mrs.C's as well. Still believe AVG is underrated but it's time to get a bit adventurous. ;)

Thanks for the linkage. :thumb:

Yeah it's pretty light on the system...detection rates are decent. Have to keep an eye on the updates sometimes...

I used to like AVG as a freebie..but for well over a year..they've fallen in detection.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/ <==only getting standard rating over last several tests. And myself...I've cleaned some machines that had AVG..stuff slipped past it. Not that strong in ad/spyware.

[Croc]

Have to keep an eye on the updates sometimes..
Been doing that for a few days now with no updates as yet.
AVG was a daily event.