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Best free anti virus?
- Thread starter SAWYER
- Start date
Ultralight
Senior member
I have Advast on my second PC and on 2 Laptops and it works great.
Quiksilver
Diamond Member
all of the above.
Just follow this to lose the small annoyances.
http://www.elitekiller.com/fil...isable_antivir_nag.htm
ultimatebob
Lifer
How is Avira better than either AVG or Avast?
IHateMyJob2004
Lifer
It doesn't bother me that much. And I think the pop up is only when you do an update (every 3 days in my case).
zerocool84
Lifer
What that home slice said.
mechBgon
Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
It's one of the best as far as signature/heuristic detection rates go, but if you collect a sample set of fresh malware that's just minutes old, and scan it with Kaspersky's online scanner, you are probably going to get results similar to mine: http://www.antisource.com/arti...ntispyware-comparisons
In the set of 95 samples used there, there were some that none of the antivirus softwares recognized by signatures or heuristics. Behavioral blocking might see something suspicious when the malware was actually doing its thing on your system, but that requires having full-ride Kaspersky (or whatever) actually installed and running its Proactive Defense module.
These days, it's best not to play with executable files that are of questionable origin, no matter what the antivirus scanner says. The bad guys know how to bait a hook... :evil:
wwswimming
Banned
PC Tools Anti Virus + SuperAntiSpyWare
superandroid
Junior Member
kaspersky is best
Chapbass
Diamond Member
xp/vista antivirus/antispyware 2008/2009 or some variant of it. they look so pretty.
(For those taking that recommendation seriously, please dont. The programs listed above are rogue products and should never be used, once again, please dont.)
for a more serious recommendation: x5 on Avira Antivir. Solid little program.
(For those taking that recommendation seriously, please dont. The programs listed above are rogue products and should never be used, once again, please dont.)
for a more serious recommendation: x5 on Avira Antivir. Solid little program.
mechBgon
Super Moderator<br>Elite Member
It doesn't scan it in transit, but if you try to open an infected attachment, the real-time protection is going to take care of it. Having seen Avast miss a few extremely-common email worm samples in a row (namely Storm), I think I'd rather have AntiVir, even if it doesn't scan POP3 traffic on-the-fly.
Flipped Gazelle
Diamond Member
How so? Performance is fine for me, really unobtrusive, occupies about 20mb RAM.
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