What is the Best AntiVirus?

[morbid_leathal92]

ESET smart Security is the best of all

 

[reborn-studios53]

avast is the best

 

[v4xde]

Hi all,
I think the antivirus should be one that uses the low resources as possible.
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[dark.s0ul98]

i prefer nod32.. is great in preventing malwares

 

[whosyourpick34]

i prefer nod32.. is great in preventing malwares

yep. gets my vote

 

[lllllllbob61]

* Your poll left off the best one! Avira AntiVir Antivirus (Free version available.)

* Here's a browser hijacker google redirect "goingonearth" that I had to remove off a family members pc.
I had to find it and remove it myself, cause they use avast.
Notice the other useless antiviruses didn't detect it. Is yours on the list. LOL!

Here is the virustotal results: At the time, Avira was the only anti-virus that detected it.
SUPERAntiSpyware malware remover also detected it. but its not an anti virus though.
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Result: 2/ 43 (4.7%) from virustotal.
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AhnLab-V3 2011.08.09.00 2011.08.09 -
AntiVir 7.11.13.2 2011.08.09 TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen
Antiy-AVL 2.0.3.7 2011.08.09 -
Avast 4.8.1351.0 2011.08.09 -
Avast5 5.0.677.0 2011.08.09 -
AVG 10.0.0.1190 2011.08.09 -
BitDefender 7.2 2011.08.10 -
CAT-QuickHeal 11.00 2011.08.09 -
ClamAV 0.97.0.0 2011.08.10 -
Commtouch 5.3.2.6 2011.08.09 -
Comodo 9688 2011.08.09 -
DrWeb 5.0.2.03300 2011.08.10 -
Emsisoft 5.1.0.8 2011.08.09 -
eSafe 7.0.17.0 2011.08.09 -
eTrust-Vet 36.1.8493 2011.08.09 -
F-Prot 4.6.2.117 2011.08.09 -
F-Secure 9.0.16440.0 2011.08.09 -
Fortinet 4.2.257.0 2011.08.09 -
GData 22 2011.08.09 -
Ikarus T3.1.1.107.0 2011.08.09 -
Jiangmin 13.0.900 2011.08.09 -
K7AntiVirus 9.109.4973 2011.08.02 -
Kaspersky 9.0.0.837 2011.08.10 -
McAfee 5.400.0.1158 2011.08.10 -
McAfee-GW-Edition 2010.1D 2011.08.10 -
Microsoft 1.7104 2011.08.09 -
NOD32 6364 2011.08.09 -
Norman 6.07.10 2011.08.09 -
nProtect 2011-08-09.01 2011.08.09 -
Panda 10.0.3.5 2011.08.09 -
PCTools 8.0.0.5 2011.08.09 -
Prevx 3.0 2011.08.10 -
Rising 23.70.01.03 2011.08.09 -
Sophos 4.67.0 2011.08.10 -
SUPERAntiSpyware 4.40.0.1006 2011.08.10 Trojan.Agent/Gen-Falprod[RE].Process
Symantec 20111.2.0.82 2011.08.10 -
TheHacker 6.7.0.1.275 2011.08.09 -
TrendMicro 9.500.0.1008 2011.08.09 -
TrendMicro-HouseCall 9.500.0.1008 2011.08.10 -
VBA32 3.12.16.4 2011.08.08 -
VIPRE 10119 2011.08.10 -
ViRobot 2011.8.9.4613 2011.08.09 -
VirusBuster 14.0.160.1 2011.08.09 -
MD5 : 22e9a59bd0604f09f458cfe7d3387f04
SHA1 : 0da041a85ef145c7f398a81f26f6935bbafd4f60
SHA256: 0c9e82890d803889d174628169ae9f5b99ccc4b56ef49179cb28c40950ea78cd
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I test my anti-viruses by actually downloading trojans and viruses on purpose.
I don't just take their word for it.

Infected Files was sent to virustotal, so other anti viruses should have that BY NOW.
Also was sent to malwarebytes, spybot search and destroy, and adaware.
Which at the time they did not detect it either.
So nod32, avast, and the rest are not as great as you may think.

 

[namnguyenhoang794]

Norton is the best of all

 

[jmambu41]

you need to put AVIRA

 

[PicTech1]

Which do you think is the best AntiVirus?

Abstinence!

 

[yardimet.az24]

All are bad. If you have antivirus your system will work lower, u cant write paches for games, u cant develop some apps and etc. If u are using windows, run antivirus once in month and check for viruses, i think its best way.

 

[jamesmascall22]

Avast Free is good

 

[swalihmcmr63]

I think its BitDefender..

 

[theone48]

Okay, this is according to my experience so far:

Norton: Powerful protection but very process restrictive and a memory hog.
McAfee: Less powerful protetion but not as taxing on memory while being more compatible.
Avira: May not provide the best protection, but is simple and light.
Avast: Massive memory eater, lockdown security. This is curfew on the computer.
AVG: Similar to Avira in security, but not as PC friendly.

That just about sums up the ones I've used. Haven't used the rest, but if I do, I'll let you know how they fare.

 

[luckyjoestar99]

My AntiVirus is Linux … because hardly anyone writes viruses for it. ^_^

 

[theone48]

My AntiVirus is Linux … because hardly anyone writes viruses for it. ^_^

I'm not so certain. If it's programming, it can be virused. I'm sure there must be some for linux too.

 

[Brandon]

Kaspersky<3

 

[henk717]

For me it whould be Panda Cloud Antivirus.
This is the only security product i am running on my system.

It needs no definition updates as everything is done in the cloud wich also makes it perfect for older systems due to the low resource usage.

Best of all its free edition is good enough so you dont need to pay anything if you use this in combination with windows firewall and a router wich is not port forwarded.

 

[ac02000513af46]

:wink:AVG

 

[colegiomaosdadas27]

for me COMODO

 

[sgupta.vedanta56]

I don't see Avira anywhere. Is there any reason for it?
Have been using avira for years now, never had any issue. Best part is, it is light, so doesn't affect the speed of the machine.