Best anti-virus

[Chuby123]

Hey since I got my new anti-virus. Bitdefender total security 2012. My opinion is...

1: Good price. At only £24 for 3 users for 1 year.

2: Beautiful and easy to use interface.

3: Quick and easy installation.

4: Great browser add-on.

5: Never misses a beat on any virus

To sum up a great package.

 

[equk]

I use microsoft security essentials atm (with a huge exclusion list and tweaks for games)

I was using NOD32 but the memory usage of all the background processes seemed pretty high and I was getting problems with permissions & rights in some applications

Previous to NOD32 I was using fsecure.

The worst AV I've seen for home systems are Norton and Mcafee ( altho mcafee corporate panel with the advanced features isn't too bad, pretty graphs and all

)

I've also noticed avira seems to be packaged with a askjeeves toolbar without asking the user, on update it just installs it and there is no uninstaller so you have to hack it out of windows

Haven't really seen any with useful browser plugins either, lots of proxy style hooks tho which just slow stuff down

I used bitdefender a few years ago and it was interfering with my software firewall with all it's hidden layer0 stuff

also not sure wtf it was doing when in 'gaming mode'

 

[SieB]

Yep, MSE. It's free, made by Microsoft and the same people that designed Windows and who knows how to protect an OS better than the people who designed it themselves.

NOD32 has an annoying thing that scans your PC when it boots to check for viruses but the thing is if you didn't have one before you switched your PC off then you ain't gonna have one when you switch it on, so that feature in my opinion is useless.

 

[KaraMurat]

Avast Home Edition

It's free, not resource heavy and just works. The local pc shop I work in also recommends Avast to all customers over any other anti virus.

 

[equk]

There are also lots of plugins for browser security which are free and autoupdate.

Really depends on what you want.

There are loads of 0day and undisclosed viruses out there that no antivirus will pick up.

Some antivirus programs are just chocolate fireguards tbh.

 

[Niz406]

Comodo Anti Virus - Free for home edition, best soloution I have used in the last 10 years of computing:

and I have used:

AVG

Symantec

Sophos

McAfee

Kerpasky

 

[dugdiamond]

MSE is free

NOD32BE (not the suite) is the dawgs

 

[Excalabur50]

I use Avast and have done for years its free and its great.

 

[Bladehawk]

Avast, epic

free for a year

upgrade is cheap

google supports it and thats why theres a free version http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/01/avast-added-to-google-pack.html

 

[riotcity76]

MSE and Kaspersky are what I'm partial to.

However, according to http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf, G Data seems like the best antivirus, in terms of detection rate.

 

[equk]

MSE and Kaspersky are what I'm partial to.

However, according to http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_feb2011.pdf, G Data seems like the best antivirus, in terms of detection rate.

also if you look at http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/test-reports/julaug-2011/

kaspersky is the top one

can't really trust a lot of the test sites

altho I was using kaspersky before fsecure and it seemed ok, kaspersky source code was leaked and is available in the underground scene of developers so a lot of private botnets are better protected specifically to it

 

[dipzy]

MSE installed on all machine at home