How often do you run Anti-Virus software?

**Shady** · 09-18-2006, 03:23 PM

I use Norton Corporate Edition , I have Auto-Protect enabled
I do a Full scan every night
and I Scan with Ad-aware every night too

[-0MEGA-] · 09-18-2006, 03:35 PM

I used to have it run in the background and scan periodically, but then it became annoying when im trying to play a game, so i just disabled it. I run it about once or twice a month or so.

Since i'm using FF instead of IE, I get much less in terms of virus' and spyware.

Filip · 09-18-2006, 03:41 PM

I don't.

Motoxrdude · 09-18-2006, 03:42 PM

Never.

Jet · 09-18-2006, 03:51 PM

AVG whenever it wants. Even when I game I have Folding@home running, so AVG isn't much worse.

belfong · 09-18-2006, 08:02 PM

Active Protection, but allso once a month i manually scan for viruses, and spy ware...

PC eye · 09-18-2006, 08:12 PM

One of the best protective measures is to be familiar with several freewares as well as retail softwares. Webroot's Spy Sweeper and Spybot S+D combined have detected and removed things AVG failed to detect. Likewise AdAware will find what Ewido misses and vice versa. Those two do seem to suplement each other as mentioned earlier. I'm presently giving Jetico a try as a firewall to see if that is worth the time.

tlarkin · 09-18-2006, 08:13 PM

at work we use etrust ITM on every work station (about 10,000 computers) and it monitors the systems in the background constantly. On user comptuers we have the etrust gui disabled, so they can't even turn it off.

Our Macintosh Computers don't run anything, just behind a NAT router on the network

Marzeth · 09-18-2006, 08:28 PM

I have AVG Free Edition and its full deactivated.
Only run a scan every month or so.

Doom_Machine · 09-18-2006, 10:15 PM

aw, no option for never on the poll
i dont like having them installed, just something else to bog down my gaming rig
only things installed on mine besides games is gamejackal and nvidias hardware firewall thing
cant complain never no problems

View Poll Results: How often do you scan you computer with Anti-Virus software.
Daily	4	12.50%
Weekly	6	18.75%
Monthly	8	25.00%
Active Protection (Constant Monitoring)	14	43.75%
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

09-18-2006, 03:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
Shady Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cairo Age: 21 Posts: 2,392	I use Norton Corporate Edition , I have Auto-Protect enabled I do a Full scan every night and I Scan with Ad-aware every night too __________________ Phenom X4 9850 BE Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 2GB Kingston DDR2 800 Radeon HD 3450 WD5000AAKS 500 GB

09-18-2006, 03:35 PM	#12 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 20 Posts: 27,344	I used to have it run in the background and scan periodically, but then it became annoying when im trying to play a game, so i just disabled it. I run it about once or twice a month or so. Since i'm using FF instead of IE, I get much less in terms of virus' and spyware. __________________ Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.1GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 (800/1900) 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 960 (6-6-6-18) 750GB SATAII w/32MB Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 22605

09-18-2006, 03:42 PM	#14 (permalink)
Motoxrdude Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Nor Cal Age: 18 Posts: 6,387	Never. __________________ RIP Mom 9/17/55-02/22/08.

09-18-2006, 03:51 PM	#15 (permalink)
Jet Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 5,298	AVG whenever it wants. Even when I game I have Folding@home running, so AVG isn't much worse. __________________ Macbook/Intel Core Duo 1.83Ghz/2GB DDR2 667/60GB HD/OSX 10.4.11/160GB 3.5" Firewire External/160GB Maxtor One Touch 4 Mini External/

09-18-2006, 03:41 PM	#13 (permalink)
Filip Diamond Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Croatia Age: 19 Posts: 1,977	I don't.

09-18-2006, 08:02 PM	#16 (permalink)
belfong Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Finland Posts: 292	Active Protection, but allso once a month i manually scan for viruses, and spy ware...

09-18-2006, 08:12 PM	#17 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,213	One of the best protective measures is to be familiar with several freewares as well as retail softwares. Webroot's Spy Sweeper and Spybot S+D combined have detected and removed things AVG failed to detect. Likewise AdAware will find what Ewido misses and vice versa. Those two do seem to suplement each other as mentioned earlier. I'm presently giving Jetico a try as a firewall to see if that is worth the time.

09-18-2006, 08:13 PM	#18 (permalink)
tlarkin VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO Posts: 6,947	at work we use etrust ITM on every work station (about 10,000 computers) and it monitors the systems in the background constantly. On user comptuers we have the etrust gui disabled, so they can't even turn it off. Our Macintosh Computers don't run anything, just behind a NAT router on the network

09-18-2006, 08:28 PM	#19 (permalink)
Marzeth Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 28 Posts: 176	I have AVG Free Edition and its full deactivated. Only run a scan every month or so. __________________ --Laptop-- Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz + 2GB RAM 128MB nVidia GeForceGo 7300 80GB HDD --Console-- Sony - Playstation 3[/size]

09-18-2006, 10:15 PM	#20 (permalink)
Doom_Machine Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 32 Posts: 129	aw, no option for never on the poll i dont like having them installed, just something else to bog down my gaming rig only things installed on mine besides games is gamejackal and nvidias hardware firewall thing cant complain never no problems

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