Virus Or Not

[abucksdiver]

Originally Posted by John_C

There are a number of reasons but the main two are virus updates and resources. BitDefender gets several updates per day for its AV and Spam databases and does so without the need for reboots. But the main one for me is BD is much less resource hungry than other AV programs especially Nortons, thats a real resource hog. you can compare them here. and Here

The McAfee spam updates can go out as frequently as every 10 minutes, and regularly get the "Detect more spam than the others" awards...

Viruses don't change quite as quickly as spam, so having daily updates, especially when linked to heurisitic scanning, will detect all the current threats.

Have to agree that some scanners use more resources than others, but then some scanners do more work! (And a few are just bloated...)

Andrew (Yes, I do have an interest in this area!)


And to the original poster, this problem sounds more like a system restore issue than a virus one... viruses are not that decerning about the files they delete!

[Garf]

Originally Posted by David

thanks all I will shoot over to his place tomorow and have a look at his pc my self.

its just ive not heard of a virus that delete all new files only.

wondered if he had some how switched on a system restore point by just fiddling about like kids do :-)


DAvid

If you're going round there, just nick his computer and bring it round to my house this afternoon.

G