now a days new av software is not really compatible with 98se or ME anymore, most of them stable when using winxp system.

i agree with that. for me panda is a very sensitive antivirus. sikit sikit then consider as virus. even i use kaspersky cant find any virus but panda can. i wonder how sure they r bcoz kaspersky has better detection rate compare to panda.

NOD32 got free version? I am using AVG now , so far so good

nope, Nod32 does not hv a free version but u can download the trial version(30days) from here : www.nod32.com

for free antivirus, AVG is quite good.

panda is a good anti virus software if use it in company,not like symantec(hate it)....
it can auto detect unknow virus,i think is a good service,coz in offcie 365day,24h,7day
the system was on and the server was on,somehow connect to internet,once online you and me also d't know will got new virus or unknow virus attack to you system and you server.so i think panda can detect unknow virus and worm coz this reason(maybe lar)

now our company try switch to panda anti virus(corporate use)

kaspersky also is a good anti virus, really
our also think b4 want use it, but panda got branch office in malaysia,which mean in malaysia got they enginner support and the price also and 24h update

I am using NOD32 2.5.19.... Love it since version 2.12.3!

Im using BitDefender 8 Professional Plus... It the best overall Anti-Virus I ever used...

why I never had to pay or run-out of trial ha? I use NOD32 BETA 2.5.... and I never be prompted to pay..

bitdefender is very good but scanning time can take ages to complete. this is my experience after testing it.

Ugh .. after using Anti-Vir and AVG, i changed to Kaspersky. Seems like this one works the best for me so far, detecting what Anti-Vir and AVG couldn't.

kaspersky is good ! but just the resource abit too much, but it working fine if you using high performance computer... example like p4 2.0> and a 512mb ram

for me, i using nod32... very good detection and less resource, i using p4 system too

just to inform...
avast! av have updated and some of it's problem have solved...

avast arh? use kaspersky home edition better lar...

nothing beats Kaspersky

tell this to the western people around america and they say heck no,

unless ur giving out proofs, usefull advice, statements about this particular antivirus, i'd say every antivirus is the best (suits each different people, people can still say norton is the best if they think it is) [taikoh, next time elaborate, we dunno whats great about kapersky]

Kapersky is strong regarding virus database and stable scan engine, but however its a bit resource hogging

Nod32 did a great job on resource hogging free(scan engine is fast, but not as great as kapersky), but i was wondering, if anyone use an antivirus for protection, why would we want to scan our computer weekly or monthly?

kaspersky the best of virus detection if compare with other antivirus, strong virus database, engine and etc... but as what "up" said, little resource suxker. lolz!

nod32 i use so far so good, other then nod32, what i can recommend is kaspersky only!

but the detection of kaspersky and nod32 i think is quite equal...

do testing between this two av before...

clone a virus effected harddisk

use nod32 and kaspersky scan

1st) kaspersky then nod32

2nd) nod32 then kaspersky

1st result: cleaned
2nd result: cleaned

Well yeah i use Kaspersky Personal Pro and it use up to 40mb of memory at startup. But it goes down to the teens after a while (goes to the virtual memory i guess ..).

This post has been edited by Joseph Hahn: May 30 2005, 05:57 PM

if ur on high rams,

i suggest not using too much of ur HDD as virtual memory, too me, swapping too much at times might kill HDD

if not using virtual then kill ram????

i not really know how to set virtual memory, but i found out from internet the virtual space min set it to be ram size x3 and maximum into 1gb..

i using 512mb ram, but i set it to be 768 and max 1gb...

hmm, in my opinion, the most of the antivirus, thier realtime scan is not as efficient(in term of Detecting and Cleaning) as the conventional scan engine.So thats why we still hv to conduct a full system scan weekly or monthly.

well, maybe norton beefed up thier Real Time Scan, thats why it uses up so many resources.