What is the BEST ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE?

[jwpizzy]

I've been using AVIRA for the past year and love it. Check this out http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_aug2010.pdf. It tests the some of most popular AV's and has helped me in deciding which AV I select.

 

[lunakitty]

yeah but he is virus free!!!!!!!!!!!lol

having multiple anti virus App sounds like it can work better than having just one. Truthfully its not, it could be incompatible with each other. Either competing for resources or cancelling each other out.

Causing more hassle than its worth, Opt for a good anti virus and anti spy/malware

 

[lunakitty]

Avast 5 has good ratings, and It has Nifty Feature with multiple protection,

Incl antivirus, RootKit Protecting, boot-time scans, antispyware, and heuristics engines also real-time shields Including mail and file system shields.

Network Behaviour, instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and Web shields. silent-gaming mode that can be turned on that wont disturb you if you busy (Gaming Hehe) and a new addition called "intelligent scanner" that once system is scanned only looks at changed files after sets a baseline.

Its totally free and provides same protection compaired to other Popular and expensive antivirus Apps .

 

[lunakitty]

wich way to download ccleaner

- Download from FileHippo.com
or
- Download from Piriform.com

and whats the difference. nd is it better than atf cleaner for windows 7?

Try Cnet Downloads
its tested spyware free and good place to get free apps

http://download.cnet.com

 

[verbalizer]

http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html

 

[blablacentral]

huh ppl where right atf cleaner misses stuff and cc cleaner misses stuff but between the 2 you get it all

 

[Tom Kamkari]

Don't use more then one av, firewall and anti spyware, more app don't mean more secure, they mean more conflict.

all you need is a good one.

eset smart security and malwarebytes or spysweeper will give you all the av/firewall/anti spyware you ever need.

but keep in mind being safe and clean is 80% dependent on your commonsense and 20% on what apps you use, lets say there was one av that was the best and one firewall that was the best and one anti spyware that was the best, if we have all 3 of those, and used very little common sense, within minutes if not seconds, our pc would be infected or hacked and ultimately vulnerable.

So its not about which app or how many security apps you have, its about how much commonsense you use.

 

[stillerfan15]

Norton anti virus online comes with my netzero account and win 7 firewall works for me.
Dave

 

[mattcha]

cant go wrong with AVG or trend micro.

 

[dEAne]

Anti virus is good only if they are updated -AVG, avira, kaspersky, norton, etc.
I am using MSE, my firewall is ON, I turn on windows update and I don't log on using an administrator account.
I also tried configuring User Policy - this is the best but you will loss control if done wrong.
I have tried Deep Freeze, Sanboxie when I surf on heavily infected site and it works.

 

[malashia]

I have been using ZenOK Free Antivirus for over a month now & after using Norton, McAfee, AVG and PC-Illin, I say ZenOK wins hands down. Fast scanning, very frequent updates and great detection rates, along with a online backup (use of resources) makes it a winner.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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