Anti Virus

[Bardrick]

Any suggestions on a good Anti Virus program that doesn't not bother EQ2?  I am running Norton, but even when I disable it, it tens to bog down the system a little.Thinking either System suit, or Mcafee.Any suggestions?

[Cele]

Norton is Satan incarnate.  Try AVG

[StormCinder]

<div></div><div><a href="http://www.grisoft.com/ww.product-avg-anti-virus-free-edition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AVG</a></div><div></div><div>SC</div>

[TSR-DanielH]

I use AVG on my current EQ2 computer.  It seems to work well as long as you keep all the active protection off.  Generally, as long as you can completely deactivate the AV until you request a scan, it'll work well with EQ2.

[Elorah]

We used AVG for a while, but switched when all those sites were hacked into.  We now are using Bitdefender.  Hubby did some research and saw that AVG was slacking a lot when compared to other AV programs...With Bit Defender, you can turn on Game mode when playing if you feel that it is affecting yoru game play, although to be honest, I dont see a difference between the 2.

[TSR-TrevorG]

Personal thoughts here, not related to SOE.I use AVG, I have for a few years. It has a smaller footprint then the other McAfee and Norton versions.  I wanted to use Panda, since well, its called Panda, but I had my differences with their program. <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Elorah]

<cite>TSR-TrevorG wrote:</cite><blockquote>Personal thoughts here, not related to SOE.I use AVG, I have for a few years. It has a smaller footprint then the other McAfee and Norton versions.  I wanted to use Panda, since well, its called Panda, but I had my differences with their program. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" /></blockquote>I liked the name Panda too...  lol.  But Hubby is in charge of all this stuff.  I am trying not to learn too much about it all....  *wink*

[Wingrider01]

<cite>TSR-TrevorG wrote:</cite><blockquote>Personal thoughts here, not related to SOE.I use AVG, I have for a few years. It has a smaller footprint then the other McAfee and Norton versions.  I wanted to use Panda, since well, its called Panda, but I had my differences with their program. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />" width="15" height="15" /></blockquote><p>Like the name, hate the software...</p><p>I am a long time Trend Micro user, since Windows 95<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> I recently demo'd the Karpersky Internet Security suite for 30 days, while it is a nice system and works well with the online game it just seemed to be lacking in a lot of standard features that Trend's Internet Security Pro 2008 have. Things like wireless access protection, mobile device protection. I switched back to the Trend product.</p><p>Trend Internet Security Pro has a lot of nice features, it has a somewhat small foot print in memory and system resources then a lot of the other products on the market, including the free ones. The one very nice thing about the Trend product is the ability to tell the realtime scanner to ignore files or directories in the real time scan portion of the program. It will scan the ignored directories normally, but when you launch the application and the directory it resides in is a part of the ignore configuration, any data streaming to or from it is not scanned by the realtime scanner service. Helps tremendously in performance for the online games.</p><p>Pricing is not to bad either, normal price for 3 machines is 69.95 for 1 year, free major upgrades during that year, hourly scanner program updates. Renewal for the scanner license is around 39.00. Their support is top notch. Recently saw it advertised at a local Office Max for 39.95</p>

[Bardrick]

<cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite><blockquote>I use AVG on my current EQ2 computer.  It seems to work well as long as you keep all the active protection off.  Generally, as long as you can completely deactivate the AV until you request a scan, it'll work well with EQ2.</blockquote>Thank you very much for your input.  Always makes me feel better when a Dev backs up what players are doing.  Or at least puts in their 2 cents <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Vodr]

<p>I always liked Nod32,  I had to test several antivirus packages for some aging pc's a while back and did a lot of time tests on opening our main app and that one was the fastest out of all the packages I tried.  (Mcafee, Norton, Avg, Panda, Nod32). Really gave us some useful life to older PC's.</p><p>Stats were approximatly as follows</p><p>Mcafee - 2 min load on app</p><p>Norton - 2 min load on app</p><p>AVG - 1:00 load on app</p><p>Panda - 1:30 load on app</p><p>Nod32 - 30 second load on app</p>

[tomdykins]

<p><cite>TSR-DanielH wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>I use AVG on my current EQ2 computer.  It seems to work well as long as you keep all the active protection off.  Generally, as long as you can completely deactivate the AV until you request a scan, it'll work well with EQ2.</blockquote><p>I realise this is an old thread but my question is related.</p><p>I currently have the free version of AVG 9, how do I switch off all active protection? When I go into the user interface there seem to be multiple active components, do I need to switch them all off? Some of the components don't seem to have the option to switch them off.</p><p>Also do I need to switch them back on again when not playing eq2?</p>

[Gaige]

<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/">http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/</a></p><p>^^^ Best free out there, no contest.</p>

[tomdykins]

<p><cite>Gaige wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/">http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/</a></p><p>^^^ Best free out there, no contest.</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for the link. Just downlaoded it.</p><p>Can I turn off the real-time protection while playing eq2 or is that unsafe?</p>

[Gaige]

<p>You can, but I never do and EQ2 is fine for me.</p>

[Skywarrior]

<p><cite>Crocodile@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I currently have the free version of AVG 9, how do I switch off all active protection? When I go into the user interface there seem to be multiple active components, do I need to switch them all off? Some of the components don't seem to have the option to switch them off.</p><p>Also do I need to switch them back on again when not playing eq2?</p></blockquote><p>I use the same AV program as you - AVG 9.  I've never had a problem with it running 24/7, including during gameplay.  Honestly, unless you are having a real issue that you know is caused by your AV program, I wouldn't switch it off.  If you do switch it off, then yes, you will need to manually run the program again to start it up again.  It should automatically restart upon reboot.</p>