What is the Best AntiVirus?

[books555]

Avira Antivir works for me .as we had some problem at work where we had norton coporate edition pre installed from server, dident do any thing.we tried avg but still no results then we tried Avira Antivir and it removed and blocked threats ok. so I had to install that on 41 machines and 15 laptops. it seems to be working fine till now.

 

[theexefiles]

I used to use Avast! for a few years, but I recently switched to Nod32 after i'd heard some pretty good things about it. Still both quite good antiviruses though Really loved avast! because before that I'd had Norton, so pretty much anything was a huge step up.

 

[agroup]

Avast 4.8

 

[xPlozion]

Avira Antivir works for me .as we had some problem at work where we had norton coporate edition pre installed from server, dident do any thing.we tried avg but still no results then we tried Avira Antivir and it removed and blocked threats ok. so I had to install that on 41 machines and 15 laptops. it seems to be working fine till now.

depends on when you first installed them. Avira's free AV has a 1 year expiration, and they display an ad after every update.

Now, you could easily bypass it by disabling the exe responsible for the ads.

 

[Energritz]

The 1st AV i ever used was Norton, it was very good, did its job and never has a problem with it, but in the end it was slowing the system down and using a lot of memory, so i then changed to AVG, avg was good, but didn't have a lot of feature like Norton did, didn't have a auto notification saying that something was blocked or attempted to access the system, you had to manually scan and didn't have a anti spy ware integrated at the time, so then i tried Nod32, was much better than AVG, did its job provided information is something bad cam through and gave me the option on what to do, in the end NOD32 killed my system completely, due to some TCP stack issue, reformatted winxp, then game kerpasky a whirl, using only the trial that they had going, it worked but felt like it wasn't informing me what was going on, only saying that things were blocked and that was pretty much it, and sometime getting the occasional pop up trying to get me to update to a paid version, eventually i got rid of kasp, then recently i moved onto Avira, no problems with avira at all, only thing is it doesnt provide real time background support, and anti-spy integrated, it would only sometime report a problem, i also had a root kit and it detected it, but wouldn't remove it at all, lucky i knew how they worked and just got rid of it manually, but at least it detected it, avira was fine but just wasn't enough for me, and now I'm using avast, remembering that one of my good friends uses avast and they haven't had a problem with it, thought that i should give it a go, so far so good, Tells me when its updated itself , notifies me if something bad attempted to get into my system but blocked it, also blocks any incoming attacks on the network. so far its doing its job and notifying me on what going on, and has anti-spy built it, and has real time background running. I've only used Freeware Anti-virus applications also, in the exception to Norton witch was my only paid service.

 

[rahulkhatri]

the best is Norton 360
offers everything
It uses the system resources but its worth it

I have never got a virus till now

Its costly but it can be easily cracked

 

[Zdroyd]

the best is Norton 360
offers everything
It uses the system resources but its worth it

I have never got a virus till now

Its costly but it can be easily cracked

I never like Paid services like Norton, they take up more memory and CPU resources then they are worth. For example: McAfee takes up more memory and resources than the game Skulltag.

 

[rahulkhatri]

if you have precious data in your computer and you know how the cracks work
then you will obviously opt for a better antivirus

 

[datumon]

Personally I use Norton, and have never had any problems with it. In the past, it was very resource intensive, but I'm using the 2009 edition and it's a lot better than the older versions were. I have it on an XP machine as well that used to take forever to boot up after logon, but after installing the 2009 version, it was much much faster than before. I think personally that you have to pay for AntiVirus protection to really get a proper software package. However, Norton is pretty pricey - but it's not too bad for me as I run it on 3 computers so it ends up costing only £10 a year for each computer.

 

[peterhsieh]

ESET is my currently running first in my list.. great detection rates...

Unfortenately AVG. is just not that good .. it seems that it installs a little to much.. toolbars.. no one likes toolbbars (no one= me ^-^)

Kaspersky is the best.. but prices can be a challenge

Trend Micro is also a pretty good AV.. but it also seems to a resource hog.
Others: there are many out there.. some AV specialise in different things where others do not. And if you were to put all into one.. it would be the resource king... so there is no best AV.. they might be the best AV detection rate.. which is apparently Kaspersky...

Thanks for reading my arguement
Peter

 

[idiil]

After some recent investigation, I have found that AVG's detection rate is terrible. Worse than Symantec. It missed half of the downloads I tested, of which nearly all the other decent AVs picked up.
And yes, I investigated the binaries myself to make sure it wasn't all false positives.

 

[gsgrego]

Comodo anti virus isnt on there..... i have never had a virus problem with comodo.

 

[evegas]

I use nod32, its very good! Especially because it has mayor support!

 

[z_killemall]

NOD32, the best in my opinion (I had many bad experiences with other AVs).

However, the trojan detection is not that good, it detects tons of programs (mostly emulators and open source stuff) as "possible trojans". Anyway since I use Spybot to find trojans I just disabled it in the NOD32 menu.

 

[Linkz0rs]

Kaspersky all the way! :biggrin:
Although, I'd have to say Avira AntiVirus is my second choice.

 

[uosnetwork]

Personally I like AVG better.

They give you many options that lots of programs don't. They also scan all websites Before you go to them, which is great!

They are free too .

 

[datababe]

CA for paid, and Avira a close 2nd; I finally opted for the paid version of it on my "clunker" Thinkpad. I've had AVG free on my "spare" laptop and been pleased so far.

I also have Winpatrol on all my Windows boxen, which often doesn't leave my AV programs much to do. It's not an AV per se, but Scotty has sniffed out more than a few things trying to make tweaks to my system before the AV caught it. It's been an eye opener, too, as to shedding light on all the things legitimate installs will do behind your back - often things you don't want or even need.

 

[adamparkzer]

I think McAfee shouldn't even be on that list. I used to have a promotional version of McAfee from AT&T Internet Services, and it was more or less useless. It connected to its servers everyday to download updates, which took about two minutes in itself. Then, when it went to install it, my computer would freeze for about 10-20 seconds everytime it finished installing. Even worse, when I actually had a virus, McAfee didn't catch it. When I did a full scan, it took two hours and it only found the wrong files - one I use for packet spamming through Flash, and one I use for running Flash scripts in Flash objects. I had to remove it manually, which I should've done in the first place; it only ended up taking me about eight minutes.

 

[idontkno]

For some reason, BitDefender is not very popular, but has as good protection as Kaspersky and probably better than Nod32?

No, Kaspersky's engine is the most widely used engine. F-Secure uses the Kaspersky engine along with quite a few other anti-virus programs.

 

[peacehotel]

mcafee