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Anti-Virus Guide
This page offers important tips and links to
comparative product
reviews, recommended products,
more retail products and reviews,
free software and services, and
links to testing organizations.
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Do you need
anti-virus help right now?
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Malware Removal and Prevention,
Castlecops Wiki, June 12, 2007
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How to Recover From a Virus Attack,
by Entrepreneur.com on thestreet.com, April 13, 2007
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Six Steps For Curing Malware Infections,
Laurie Rowell & Dan
Bacon, TechBuilder, Feb. 20, 2006
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Caught
a Virus? Lincoln Spector, PC World, February 9, 2005
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Gadzooks!
My PC has the pox, John Leyden, The Register, UK, November 11, 2004
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Free Virus Removal Tools, Tips, and Tricks, and
Removing Stubborn
Infectors, Mary Landesman, antivirus.about.com
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Important Tips
- Just One, Not Two -- Never use two
anti-virus products at the same time. Completely uninstall one before
installing another. Use the vendor's uninstall utility or if not
available, use the Windows XP add/remove software tool in the
control panel.
- Patches & Updates -- Anti-virus software is only as effective as its most recent
update because it is inherently reactive treating "known" threats. So
when you install anti-virus software, go to the
vendor's web site and update the program and virus definitions immediately
and then turn on the auto update feature (if it has one). If you want to be
ready for the next big bad thing before your anti-virus signatures
can be updated, consider Zero-Day Protection.
- Get Online Protection Too -- Consider using an Internet service provider or email
service that includes server side anti-virus and spam email filtering as a
second layer of defense. If possible, use different anti-virus software
on your home computer than your ISP or service uses on their servers.
- Consider a Gateway
-- A Broadband Gateway product between
your modem and network can screen out viruses before they hit your
computer(s).
- Spyware & Trojan Horses --
Some anti-virus software products now include
anti-spyware and some anti-spyware products have added anti-virus.
In addition, some of these products include anti-trojan, anti-worm
and other anti-malware features. Before relying on a single security
product, carefully review the vendor's list of features and study
comparative test results if available. See
Editorial - Do you really need a spyware scanner? Gizmo
Richards' Support Alert Newsletter, April 17, 2008. Also see our
Security Suite,
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Trojan
and Zero-Day Protection pages.
- Prices -- See our custom Anti-Virus Price List
powered by Amazon.com
Comparative Reviews
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AV Still Weak on Rootkit Detection, Fixing Infections, Kelly
Higgins, Dark Reading, March 12, 2008 and
equivalent letter grades from Sunbelt Software. By our count,
none of the products got straight A's on all eight tests; only four out of thirty got all A's
& B's; ten got a mix of A's, B's & C's; and sixteen (!!!)
got at least one D or F.
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Antivirus Software Reviews,
Consumersearch.com, January 2008, comprehensive summary of 30 reviews of
28 products -- Kaspersky, ESET NOD32, AVG Free, Panda & Norton
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Untangle Weaves Controversial Web With AV Test, Brian Prince,
eWeek, August 13, 2007
- Virus Stoppers, Ryan Naraine,
PC World, April 23, 2007 --
Alwil's Avast 4 Antivirus Professional Edition, BitDefender's
Antivirus 10, Eset's NOD32, Grisoft's AVG 7.5 Anti-Virus
Professional Edition, Kaspersky's Anti-Virus 6, Panda's Antivirus
2007, Symantec's Norton AntiVirus 2007, and Trend Micro's AntiVirus
plus AntiSpyware 2007.
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Labs: Anti-virus software, Simon Edwards,
Computer Shopper UK,
February 2007 -- F-Secure, Kaspersky, Steganos, Bullguard, Eset,
Grisoft, McAfee, Panda, Softwin, Symantec, Alwil & Trend Micro
Recommended Retail Anti-Virus Software
- Kaspersky Anti-Virus
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ESET NOD32
Antivirus
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ESET Updates Antivirus For Network Scanning, Andy Patrizio,
eSecurityPlanet, October 30, 2007
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Eset NOD32 Antivirus System 2.7, PC Advisor UK, Roger Gann,
February 14, 2007
- Eset's Nod32
2.7 | The Best Antivirus Product of 2007, Scot Finnie's
Newsletter, February 7, 2007
- Norton Antivirus 2008
with Antispyware
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PC Advisor UK
review, October 3, 2007
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CNet
review, Robert Vamosi, September 20, 2007
More Retail Anti-Virus Software
Choices
Free Anti-Virus Software, Tools and Online Services
- Comparative Reviews of Free Anti-Virus Software
- Free Anti-Virus Software
- Free Anti-Virus Tools
- Free Online Anti-Virus
Scanners
Anti-Virus Testing
The importance of the information provided by these organizations is
explained in Independent Antivirus Lab Testing, Michael Muchmore,
PC Magazine, April 22, 2003. The need to update testing is discussed in
Security Vendors Challenge Antivirus Tests, Jeremy Kirk, IDG News
Service, PC World, June 26, 2007.
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