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Antivir or AVG or Avast!4

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I am looking for free antivirus software and these are the three(Antivir and AVG and Avast!4, all the free versions) I have found to be the most trusted on the internet, but I am unsure about chosing between them. I have heard that Avast!4 is alittle bloated compaired to the two others and that Antivir has the best detection rates, but I haven't been able to verify that. Thanks in advance.
 
Actually that first post has too many pages - should be isolated as a sticky, IMHO. John's link is a good read. Suffice it to say, he favors Kaspersky. Based on that read and others, that is what I have started using as of last week.
 
AVG: Uses little resources but doesn't have that great of a scanner.
Avast: Sort of a resource hog but does a very good job.
AntiVir: Uses less resources then AVG and has a similar scanner to Avast.

I use AntiVir.
 
detection rate is about the same but AVG doesn't repair files as well as Avast.
AVG uses far less resources.

I use AVG and Avast together and havn't had a problem. 2 heads are better than one 🙂

utilization is ~5% running both. Not bad at all for a single core 3400+
 
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Yes, kaspersky is good but you have to pay for it. Detection rate is < or == AVG+avast. Better repair rate than AVG+Avast though.

 
I read somewhere on this forum that Kaspersky somehow marks the headers of all files on your PC. Is that true? I wouldn't want that.
 
Originally posted by: DannyLove
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For the wealthy or pirates arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
 
Originally posted by: beggerking
wow! thats awesome! I'll give it a try! maybe i'll have all 3 on.
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Bad idea! You only want one antivirus installed and running on your pc. Multiple scanners will introduce lagg and conflict with one another in most cases.

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I read somewhere on this forum that Kaspersky somehow marks the headers of all files on your PC. Is that true? I wouldn't want that.
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The old version 5.0 used NTFS streams, but the new 6.0 does not. What's nice is 6.0 is not as cpu intensive either. The free AOL/Kaspersky 6.0 is without a doubt the best freeware AV currently available. It uses the same definitions as the pay version and has the same detection capabilities.

 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: beggerking
wow! thats awesome! I'll give it a try! maybe i'll have all 3 on.
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Bad idea! You only want one antivirus installed and running on your pc. Multiple scanners will introduce lagg and conflict with one another in most cases.

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I read somewhere on this forum that Kaspersky somehow marks the headers of all files on your PC. Is that true? I wouldn't want that.
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The old version 5.0 used NTFS streams, but the new 6.0 does not. What's nice is 6.0 is not as cpu intensive either. The free AOL/Kaspersky 6.0 is without a doubt the best freeware AV currently available. It uses the same definitions as the pay version and has the same detection capabilities.
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I wonder if he uses 3 condoms at one time?
 
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