Which anti virus software is better?

Symantec would get the nod over McAfee,because of it sems to integrate over the network.
The Symantec software seems to provide better protection over the network even at the server level.

If you are interested in centralized management and forcing virus signature updates to the desktop, maybe you could try Trend Micro's antivirus application. I prefer that at the corporate level, but as a single home I use Symantec (Norton AntiVirus).

Hope that helps -

Norton is a product to stay away from! A lot of people think that it's ease of use make it a good product but the updates and detection is not there.
Both Norton and Mcafee have jumped on the per year subscription band wagon. They don't give much warning when the subscription is going to or has run out, you simpley don't get the new pattern files!
I have two that I recommend to people, Trend Micro and AVX. Trend is the only OPSEC certified anti-virus program on the market. What this means is that when code red was detected, the FBI contatced TREND. As for AVX, this is a military grade anti-virus program along the same lines as trend. Both companies are neck and neck on who gets the latest patterns are first and both protect the system, email, web and other areas. Their web sites are www.antivirus.com and centralcommand.com.. Take a look, AVX has just added a built in firewall to their product..

Norton is at lease two or three steps above McAfee, We used the latter and it can not clean some virus's and asks you to delete the file, the same virus Norton cleaned. Try deleteing a memory resident virus, enough said there. I have used AVX in thepast at home before it became AVX, it worked perfectly, updated its updates daily and was very easy to set up. The only problem I have with Norton is the resource's it uses.

Ahhh...
I use Norton as part of Norton System Works.
Maybe you will detect some contradiction, but in fairness:
I heard so many times Norton doesnt detect what McAfee would detect. Tho, I used McAfee b4, I moved towards Norton, coz I personally find Norton better. Dont go into the installment of both, you will end in pain.
What about Trend? I run Trends Housecall on regular base, and YES, Trend detected some McAfee nor Norton could. End of the day: go for Trend.

I'll just toss this out. You didn't say what kind of network you were running so I can only vouch for this product on Netware. I used Sophos on our server and it worked wonderfully, www.sophos.com. One of the problems with running antivirus on a server is the amount of server resources that the software uses. Depending on the software, your network performance can take a real hit. Sophos will grab as much of the free resources as it can get to run the antivirus, but as other tasks come online,it releases them back to the system. I'm suprised how well it worked. You may not have heard of them because they only sell to businesses, not off the shelf. it's supposed to work just as weel on Windoze.
Check them out.

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