What is the best virus scanner?

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Jul 27 2005, 11:14 am
What is the best virus scanner? I have Norton and Spy Sweeper and they both are not to good. I just did a recovery like last month because my computer was infected so bad by these viruses. Norton does not help at all. So right now I am asking what is the best virus scanner so then I can buy it to stop having to do any more recoveries. Thanks.

->Calus CORPS<-
Jul 27 2005, 11:28 am
AVG has always worked for me.
Jul 27 2005, 11:44 am
In response to Scoobert
Ok thanks. I am going to look in to it.

->Calus CoRPS<-
Jul 27 2005, 11:45 am
In response to Calus CoRPS
Oh ya, it is free. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
Jul 27 2005, 12:02 pm
In response to Scoobert
Wow, thanks alot Scoobert this will help me alot. Thanks again.

->Calus CoRPS<-
Jul 27 2005, 3:56 pm
Kaspersky AV is the best paid anti-virus you can get as for detections for spy-ware, viruses, and Trojans go.
http://www.kaspersky.com/

AVG is good if you’re not a heavy downloader, it does well for everyday virus (not the kind you get from P2P networks). But it will not detect much spy-ware or Trojans. AVG is equal or better then Norton and is free :).
http://free.grisoft.com/

My favorite is ESET Nod32, good overall detections and very strong heuristics.
http://www.nod32.com/

Also try MS anti-spyware if you use XP (it's free)
it's good for Trojans and Spyware.