Best antivirus poll

[Dark Lord of Tech]

What is your favorite antivirus!!!!!!!

 

[btk1w1]

Woohoo!!! Avast takes the lead.

But on a serious note, it would have been nice to vote for Paid vs Free or something like that.

 

[btk1w1]

Subcategorised I meant to say.

 

[megatubai]

Woohoo!!! Avast takes the lead.

But on a serious note, it would have been nice to vote for Paid vs Free or something like that.[/quote




i think what btk1w1 have said is a good issue to think about ....coz i am using Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 paid version ......it works much better than the non paid version that my one friend id using ...also i have tried out Avast,Avira.But according to me Kaspersky Rockss

 

[itadakimasu]

My vote went to other for Vipre Antivirus / spyware by sunbelt software.

I demo'd this for work because they were offering a really good price compared to our symantec endpoint security. I put it on 3 machines, and it found something on each machine that had not been picked up by symantec including trojans, and a keylogger!

They also gave me a free license for trying it ( which i used on my moms computer to help rid her of one of those "fake anti spyware" viruses that now plagues the internet.

They offered me $10 per license + 1 free year to essentially reimburse us for our current symantec, but my supervisor didn't want to do it.. oh, and they also were offering a free at home license for every user ! seriously... was an excellent deal.

Symantec Endpoint security is like... $35-40 per license per year for renewals. So, by the end of the year I'm switching our office over to this by year end.

 

[GrievousAngel]

why is AVG so low?

later,
billy

 

[techie555]

why is AVG so low?

Well, AVG lets some other powerful viruses get past on its system.
I have a very bad experience when it comes to AVG. My computer was infected by an Adware.
Starting fro that day on, I never used AVG again.

 

[randomizer]

I've used AVG for years and never had a problem. I won't vote it as the best though, because I haven't used many others. I couldn't stand Avast.

 

[GrievousAngel]

actually i had the same problem with AVG (twice) > one RootKit and one nasty virus. AVG later got the virus BUT never found the RootKit. a free Rootkit killer fixed the RootKit thing.

i thought maybe i was expecting too much from anti-virus appz If you go to risky sites.

i guess its time to move on to another anti-virus!

which anti-virus is king?

thanks,
bbilly

 

[dantrona]

Kaspersky is definately an expensive program, but you pay for quality. All of my family (Except me) uses Kaspersky, where I am using a free McAfee Professional that came withour comcast connection. After a year of having that my computer started slowing down and I happened to get hacked (That sucked.) before getting it all squared away, I scanned my computer with McAfee, it found nothing. I used Kaspersky's free scan, it found 4 things, 2 spyware, 1 trojan and a virus. Removed them all right quick, got all my stuff back, and life was good. Once I build my new computer in the next month I am putting Kaspersky on it immediately.

 

[nashlofer]

I first used Norton antivirus but literally it sucks.... It is too conservative on its firewall settings plus the internet security is a bummer.
I switched to AVG... then to AVAST... I guess AVG (Free) and Avast (Free) are great Antivirus today.

 

[GrievousAngel]

is there a bigger comparison on the net comparing anti-virus appz?

AVG Firewall is good but it not sharp with Rootkits.

who does the best job with downloading unknown files?

thanks,

billy

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

hey grievousangel look here!

http/www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php

 

[nashlofer]

hey grievousangel look here!

http/www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php

You got a nice list here. Thanks for the information!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

your welcome!

 

[blackhawk1928]

I have used mcafee, norton, avast(free),AVG(free),and Avira(free). All i can say is avira smashes everything, all of its competition between the anti-virus i've used personally. truth be told it has no competition. Avira anti-vir the free version has has practically all features that paid-antiviruses do that i need. I am thinking of purchasing the premium of it actually. It has a very high detection rate, daily updates(sometimes 2--3 times a day), has excellent heuristics and a good scanner. It catches everything. Mcaffee, just plain sucked, norton goes with right with it, its crap, avast was okay but it doesn't have a very good detection rate cause some viruses got through and has a horrible GUI, i once thought that it was my music player when i saw it, AVG is pretty good, i would put in second because it doesn't have a very good detection and kind of got bloated. Avira takes up no resources and yet easily defeats everything else. Avira is a brick wall and nothing gets through it PERIOD. Remember this is my opinion, you may not agree but i suggest give it a try

 

[nashlofer]

I haven't try Avira, perhaps I'll consider it in the future. Thanks for the tip.

A little out of the topic I have downloaded Malwarebytes software (Free). Tried it, and clean-up my P.C. very nicely from malwares and spywares. My Firefox just crashed couple of days ago and I have to "clean" install it.
It works fine now, but I used Malwarebytes to clean my system before re-installing Firefox.

 

[Zinosys]

Kaspersky works for my servers. Otherwise, I use Mc@fee or 360.

360 seems to work much better for me, although it is a pain to uninstall. Kaspersky is more of an enterprise-level, server thing than a home use program.

 

[Bruceification73]

Are you kidding me? 5 votes for Norton? It's the crappiest besides mcafee and Trend Micro. I say Avira or nod32. Kasperskey slows the f out of my internet and, although it whitelisted iTunes, it blocks half of the songs I purchase. It has great protection, but too much of a performance impact. Besides, Avira is free, Kasperskey cost me $62.

 

[core i7 ownage]

Norton is good. BTW, it's 390 version which does is not power hungry. It's running on my laptop, C2D with 4GB of memory.