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Avira Personal (free), Norton Antivirus 2009, or NOD32 v3?

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BehindEnemyLines

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I have just reinstalled my Vista Ultimate and need a new av. For the past few years, I have been using NOD32 v2.70 excusively. My license for NOD32 has expired, and I don't need the security suite. Firewall is taken care with Agnitum Firewall with lifetime updates.

It seems Avira Personal (free) has the best detection, but the free version doesn't include antispyware (adware and spyware) detection. It also doesn't scan from email clients. However, it does detect the more dangerous virus, worms, and trojans.

According to AV-comparatives, the three are ranked, highest to lowest:

Avira Personal (free), Norton Antivirus 2009, then NOD32 v3.0.

What's your experience with any of these three AV?
 
IMO, Avira Personal Edition Premium and Kaspersky Anti-Virus are the two top dogs right now for consumers. Personally, I am giving Symantec End-Point Protection (Corporate) 11 a try since my university recently made it available to those of us on 64-bit systems. Shame there is no Linux client for it.
 
The one feature of avira personal free that makes it crippleware regards its lack of incoming email pre scanning. Its still my choice of an antivirus because I receive few emails. And if I am worried about opening an email, having XP pro, I can always open it up using a non administrative account with a full software restriction policy in place.

The other curse of avira is that some people have fits getting their automatic updates reliably. If nothing else, it seems to effect computers that had some variant of Norton or sysmatec not fully removed. Thankfully I have no problem getting auto updates, but any that visit the avira forums can see its an common complaint.

In the case of my wife, she receives a bunch of emails with video attachments, so I have her using an AV with email pre scanning.
 
free AntiVir.

even if its detection rates arent the very best, you should still be fine. most infections happen because of misuse or negligence. if you use a "restricted/limited user account" you can decrease the chances of infections by A LOT.

i've been using different free AV programs (Avast, AVG, AntiVir) for about 5 years and havent got any virus problems. AVG is heavier, though.
 
Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
now they need to retest against nod32 v. 4
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V4 is ok.. Not really any ground breaking features added. I like the ability to see when Windows Updates are needed on clients. They integrated Sysinspector snapshots which are nice also, and rescue media. I was looking for other things from Version 4.

1. Lower memory footprint
2. Less CPU usage
3. Increased Heuristic engine, and increased Spyware detection capabilities.

 
++1 New version of Avira Free edition (AntiVir Personal 9.0.0.386) that comes with 2 new features (at least what i have noted) when i run it on Windows Xp.
Added Support for Windows Management Instrumentation (enabled by default) and System Files Integrity Checking (disabled by default); all this in Expert Mode.
 
Originally posted by: FLegman
++1 New version of Avira Free edition (AntiVir Personal 9.0.0.386) that comes with 2 new features (at least what i have noted) when i run it on Windows Xp.
Added Support for Windows Management Instrumentation (enabled by default) and System Files Integrity Checking (disabled by default); all this in Expert Mode.
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So far I'm digging this new release. When you get a false positive on a file, you can now check off ignore, and tell it not to notify you again :^)
 
Originally posted by: lxskllr
When you get a false positive on a file, you can now check off ignore, and tell it not to notify you again
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I check "Ignore" but don't have any options for it not reporting again on the next scan.
Can you help me with this?
 
Originally posted by: Blain
Originally posted by: lxskllr
When you get a false positive on a file, you can now check off ignore, and tell it not to notify you again
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I check "Ignore" but don't have any options for it not reporting again on the next scan.
Can you help me with this?
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Ok, sorry Blain, I think I spoke too soon :^(

It looks like the "whitelist" is only good for that session; It gets reset for the next scan. I guess I'll have to keep my old technique of setting it to ignore, and log hits, then manually review them later.
 
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