What was your first Anti-Virus/Antispyware program you can remember?

[BoraMurdar]

Mine was GIANT-AntiSpyware
It looks like some rogue Antivirus but it was one of the better GUI's in those days Windows Defender was initially based on it

 

[Venustus]

From memory I think it was Pc-cillin (now Trend Micro)

 

[Jaspion]

Oh, great thread! Maybe you'll help me identify an old AV I used, probably back in the Win 95 days. All I remember is a nice GUI, which kind of looked like AVG's interface when it still had the thug virus graphics (anyone remember that?), and the name is shadier in my memory, maybe I'll recognize it if I see it (I could say it might have been an old version of Ikarus, but I could be way off).

This AVG and PC-Cillin came some time later, but were also some of my fist AVs. And McAfee & Norton too, came with a lot of PCs those days.

 

[nsm0220]

mines was McAfee

 

[aztony]

I thought McAfee was the best thing next to sliced bread. My 1st AV.

 

[BoraMurdar]

Oh, great thread! Maybe you'll help me identify an old AV I used, probably back in the Win 95 days. All I remember is a nice GUI, which kind of looked like AVG's interface when it still had the thug virus graphics (anyone remember that?), and the name is shadier in my memory, maybe I'll recognize it if I see it (I could say it might have been an old version of Ikarus, but I could be way off).

This AVG and PC-Cillin came some time later, but were also some of my fist AVs. And McAfee & Norton too, came with a lot of PCs those days.

eScan or Fprot had a similar GUI, maybe?

 

[nsm0220]

I thought McAfee was the best thing next to sliced bread. My 1st AV.

now its junk now

 

[aztony]

now its junk now

What a difference a couple decades make, huh?

 

[Jaspion]

eScan or Fprot had a similar GUI, maybe?

Thanks for the guesses, but looking at some screenshots, I don't think we have positive id yet. Maybe it was just one of the world's first rogue antiviruses.

 

[nsm0220]

What a difference a couple decades make, huh?

oh yeah its so bad i don't even test it anymore

 

[KaptainBug]

Norton, then McAfee

 

[Gnosis]

avg, ad-aware, PC-cillin, and some PC Tools stuff. There is one other vendor I cannot recall.

 

[BoraMurdar]

Yep, used Spyware Doctor some time also... now PC Tools doesn't exist too

 

[Guest28]

Mine was Norton but back then it was horrible........

 

[jim lin]

Norton then Mcafee when i did not know better and then my first free av RAV (Reliable Antivirus) from GECAD Software which
Microsoft purchased in 2003 to make Windows Live OneCare and i have not paid for AV since



James

 

[BoraMurdar]

Norton then Mcafee when i did not know better and then my first free av RAV (Reliable Antivirus) from GECAD Software which
Microsoft purchased in 2003 to make Windows Live OneCare and i have not paid for AV since



James

yeeees, I totally forgot about RAV , If you didn't mentioned it, it would probably never come across my mind again

 

[viktik]

It was 2002.

AVG antivirus. TDS-3 Trojan Defence Suite.

 

[bunyip783]

AVG like many others I'm guessing?

 

[samit]

Mcafee, escan, Nod32

 

[Gnosis]

Spyware Doctor

Yep BoraMurdar, that is the one. Thanks for that.

I used it to off "SpyAxe", which if I am not mistaken is a rogue. That was obviously in my novice days. LOLOL