What antivirus should be I use ?

[Aiden2k13]

Hey guys, I have a gaming PC and I was using Kaspersky till now but it is kinda slow and I wanna change to a better anti-virus.
My rig is :
Core i7 4th gen , 16 gb ddr 3 vengeance ram, gtx 760.
So, which antivirus should be good ? I play Online a lot , offline too and therefore I want a reliable anti virus.

Kindly help.

 

[Lee-m]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/security-essentials-download

your best bet for free

 

[wanderer11]

I agree with MSE. It never has popups. AVG liked to tab me out of my game to tell me to upgrade to pro or scan or whatever it thought was more important than my game.

 

[Gee Bee]

i used kaspersky for years, and i decided a change was in order for similar reasons to your own (albeit i never was never infected under Kaspersky)

I'm now using AVG Internet security 2014, and have had zero issues thus far. The firewall is extremely good, almost in the outpost league. I configured mine to manual so AVG asks me every time what to do. I prefer it that way. It has automated settings as well.

I set several tests to have my firewall penetrated and it got them every time, kaspersky did not. Admittedly if i had it under automated settings like kaspersky was, AVG would have failed too.

 

[Aiden2k13]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/security-essentials-download

your best bet for free

I am on Win 8.1 . So will Security essentials support on 8.1 ?

 

[wanderer11]

I may be wrong, but I believe it's called Windows Defender on 8 and preinstalled.

 

[Lee-m]

I may be wrong, but I believe it's called Windows Defender on 8 and preinstalled.

Yes your wrong 😉 its a separate download from microsoft.

It should work just fine on any version of windows 7 or 8. Obviously microsoft will be supporting their flagship OS.
I believe its also free for business use, for up to 10 licensees (10 installs)

 

[Aiden2k13]

So what to put on win 8.1 ?

 

[Lee-m]

whats the issue ? download it and install it. job done.

 

[Aiden2k13]

whats the issue ? download it and install it. job done.

Ok , I am gonna install Security Essentials now.

Thanks for the reply guys.

 

[Hyedwtditpm]

on windows 8 , its called windows defender, and it already comes with the OS .

Also i read good things about the latest Norton antivirus and internet security. It used to be very bloated.