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Whats the best antivirus software that actually works

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mrrman

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I am using AVG and somehow a trojan got through. What is the best reliable antivrus software to use excluding Norton.
Thanks
 
Avira free(my choice)
MSE
NOD32

Keep in mind that no A/V is infallible. AVG isn't so great, but any A/V solution can fail if you're unlucky. Mechbgon has a great security guide, and is as close to bulletproof as you can get with a usable machine.
 
Avira Free is my choice. And as others said, the best anti-virus / anti-malware is common sense. I haven't had a virus, trojan, malware, etc. in at least 5 years, and I've used several different AV software products over that period (including ones of lesser quality, like McAfee).
 
you have two choices....Microsoft Security Essentials or Avira AntiVirus both are free and the best.
 
I would say Avast 5 once finished - and proven to be flawless 😉 Has some nice caching options making it highly intelligent compared to for example MSE which can hog cpu for no apparent reason. Well reason is crazy scan policy. On the other hand if you want something that is so reliable that you will let it do auto-removal, may be without you even knowing, there can only be MSE 🙂 Depends on what you prefer. I don't think you get most out of for example Avast without tinkering with settings. MSE is more like an on/off switch. Is designed this way, some run away because they want to play! - others uninstall previous stuff and go all MS 🙂
 
NOD32 is a favorite.

Kaspersky used to be excellent for me too, but their new 2010 version royally sucked. IE or Firefox would take 30+ seconds to load, programs would randomly pause during install, alt-tabbing out of a game would take decades... and this is was on a Core i7 920 with 12GB of ram so it was not for lack of resources. Tried uninstalling, reinstalling and whatnot. I was not the only person with the problem and the consensus "solution" was to go back to the 2009 version. Some people of course have no problems with it, but use a trial version before forking over money for it.

You said no Norton. If it's because you were burned by craptacular performance in the past, consider giving them another shot. They did a complete re-write for the 2009 version and it's now a very fast well-regarded product. The 2010 version just won Av-Comparative's product of the year award.

I just got rid of Kaspersky and am trying a trial version of NIS 2010. Never thought I'd see the day that Norton >>> Kaspersky. :biggrin:
 
Only thing bad about avira is that daily nag screen. It pops up in the middle of games too. Very annoying.
 
SAV Corporate is now called Endpoint. It is nice from a deployment point of view, as far as it's detection rates go... it is so so. I like Panda AV for corporate and Panda home version for my non mananged clients.
 
growled said:
I use MSE and I'm pleased with it.
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was using that until recently.
found that it was scanning something ( don't know what, could have been anything!)
made pc totally unresponsive, and had to close it via task manager!

after a while, got rid of it
 
NOD32 by far. I used Kaspersky for 3 years and Norton for 3 years. Both went from good to slow as hell. NOD32 is not only fast in speed tests, it's also the top in detection rates.
 
There a lot of ways to rate an anti virus, you can look at detection rates, the number of false positives, speed, and the bloat factor to just name a few. I also think a very few payware AV's like NOD32 and kaspersky are a hair better than the better freeware alternatives like Avira and Avast. And for what its worth, the final non beta version of Avast 5 just came out a few days ago so its basically unrated yet.

As for me, I have Avast 5 on my wife's computer and I have Avira personal free on mine. Largely because my wife needs the email pre screening that Avira personal lacks.
But both of our computers have stayed virus free for five years or more, but I also attribute that more to a multilayered security system that does not place all eggs in just the AV. Like Schadenfroh notes, following the Mechbgon advice is an excellent way to patch your all your security holes.

But at the end of the day, that old adage applies: There never was a horse that could not be rode and never a rider that never could be thrown. I just want to be sure any hacker has to work his ass off to get me. Usually they go for easier game.
 
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