How often do you run Anti-Virus software?

[ETSA]

What Anti-Virus software do you use and how often do you run it?

I use Norton Corporate Edition.

Every Wednesday.

I run Ad-Aware daily and also have E-Trust Patrol on active protection. Along with Sygate personal Firewall.

 

[PC eye]

AVG 7.1 Free edition works quite well here even when not active. On one recent occasion while being on the disabled list it suddenly came to life to warn about a file being copied onto the system upon first reaching one site for the first time. That is supplemented by AdAware SE Personal and Ewido at the present time.

 

[_simon_]

None & Never.

 

[Shane]

None & Never.

Thats linux for you

I run a scan every 2 days with AVG free and Advanced spyware remover and i now have a genuine licence for Registry Mechanic so i scan my Registry for errors too.

Works great.

 

[Bobo]

Avast on-access scanner. I run a scan every time i start having problems.

 

[ckfordy]

Ill usually run the antivirus whenver i remeber to do it or when i start having problems. But i will run spyware scans every week.

 

[JamesBart]

AVG when i get any spare time to run it. all good so far. (touch wood)

 

[JFHuff]

Norton Internet Security. Auto protect turned on but i still run a full system scan once a month.

 

[gamerman4]

So far no viruses have been able to get through my firewall. Every time I do a virus check (Kaspersky) nothing is found. I did turn my firewall off one time and 10 seconds later Kaspersky told me I got 3 viruses..... I've never turned my FW off since.

 

[Verve]

Every two months usually, but I do spyware scans once a week.

 

[Shady]

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

 

[Geoff]

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]

I don't.

 

[Motoxrdude]

Never.

 

[Jet]

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

 

[belfong]

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

 

[PC eye]

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]

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]

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

 

[Doom_Machine]

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