Do you use : No Antivirus , FREE Antivirus , or PAID Antivirus and why?

[kasiourasg]

Go for paid one guys. If you guys are reading malware and ransomware attacks, free ones does not stops the attack, their features are limited. Get a paid one. There are a lot of tutorial videos on youtube with paid anti virus services.

Actually no. Free product can perform good as a paid product such as Avast Free for instance. You can strength your security with anti-exe app such as VoodooShield Free that will lock down your PC for good.

Free product can stop the attack if it have signature for it and behavior blocker. As matter of fact, Avast Free can stop the ransomware attack with its new behavior blocker modules.

I won't agree with you because a lot of my office and neighborhood peeps were telling me that they have Avast, AVG and other free tools for protection against KRACK, Duhk and bad rabbit, but none of them were capable enough to survive the infection. Result, they lost a lot of files. I had a paid service and it blocked all the malicious attacks. Free one does not guarantee a safety.

All those people were handling e-commerce websites (office colleagues) and have a little e-stores business (neighbors).

No security program will ensure your safety. Paid, or free. I really can't stress this enough guys. There is no doubt that having a paid Antivirus/Anti-Malware will offer you a higher security than a free one, but don't go on believing that you can go around the web and do all sort of stupid mistakes without getting infected.

Be cautious at all times.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Agree with the last statement. I will say that I've started using the free Windows defender that comes built into windows 10. Used to really like Avast. So far it does well though.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

Anyone here use TrendMicro?

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

I don't. As far as paid antivirus, I've personally worked on systems with paid antivirus that had THOUSANDS of infections before.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Anyone here use TrendMicro?

Have in the past , very good detection engine.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

Anyone here use TrendMicro?

Have in the past , very good detection engine.

Is it heavy on usage?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

No not heavy at all.

 

[gn842a]

I recently removed Kaspersky from all my devices. I realize that I am a zero priority target for the Kremlin, and that commercial spyware is if anything more aggressive, but I'm no longer comfortable with Kaspersky.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I recently removed Kaspersky from all my devices. I realize that I am a zero priority target for the Kremlin, and that commercial spyware is if anything more aggressive, but I'm no longer comfortable with Kaspersky.

Try Sophos HOME Free Edition.

 

[gn842a]

I'll keep sophos in mind. I seem to be doing OK with NOD32 (ESET). I grant you that it may not be the best. But their support is reasonably responsive. I've used ESET probably for twelve or fifteen years, with a break to try some alternative products.

Most of my issues are harddware related. Such security issues as I have are the ones you read about in the news, credit card hacks and the like.

Part of the issue is that I'm not one of these guys who lives and breathes desktops and is constantly looking for the optimal solution. In my ideal world the PC is like a washing machine, you just use it and don't think about it.

Unfortunately one DOES have to think about desktops to keep them operational, but there are so many things to think about that once I've got something that seems to work I pass on to the next subject. But it leaves me at a bit of a disadvantage, if I am successful and have a build that I don't have to think about, then I *never* think about this stuff, and I have to look at all kinds of youtube videos to refresh my memory about what to do when there is an issue.

There is a huge mass of conflicting information out there about virus software and I suspect that much of it is funded by one or another software company and it's very difficult for me to tell them apart.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

SOPHOS Premium Home Beta has FREE year subscription right now. Contains Hitman Pro Alert to stop RansomWare.

 

[SumTingW0ng]

Or Bitdefender Free.

 

[kitkat8]

The only one I would use would be NOD

 

[jadinolf]

The only one I would use would be NOD

I agree.

 

[cneth259]

I use malwarebytes lifetime premium I think it is the best

 

[sirhawkeye64]

I use a paid AV/Security program (ESET). I'm still a believer in that you get what you pay for. Yes, there are some decent FREE ones out there, like AVG, Avira, and a handful of others, but I still think that when it comes to security, it's not worth cutting corners to save a few bucks. If you want to save a few bucks, trim back on something else (a subscription for a game or a magazine, for example). To me, in doing software development, and overall, just being like everyone else, security is a high priority, and to me, it's worth the $60 or so that I pay, per year ($60 per machine, that is... ESET usually has deals throughout the year where you can get a 5-pack of their Internet Security or Smart Security for $100 or something). I'm not pushing ESET necessarily, but I do think that paid is usually better, unless you don't have anything on your computer you don't mind losing should you get a virus or malware. But most people store their lives, so to speak, on their computers and phones. I also use MalwareBytes on my computer as added protection against malware (which ESET I think does scan for, but it's not necessarily active scanning like MalwareBytes).

 

[thunderforces2017]

paid antivirus due to updates

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

https/chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php#
AV-COMPARATIVES

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Sophos Home is another great FREE suite.

 

[mdd1963]

"As I stated before, the computer cannot get infected without user interactions, "

Untrue with the 'drive-by' infections of the last couple years or so....; not every infection requires a user to click on "Yes, I'm a moron, please install questionable software immediately"

Merely visiting a site infected with 'drive-by' variants can infect the user; this is (or should be) well-known....

'Questionable' web-sites are probably more prone to this than others....