Windows 7 antivirus

[tzdk]

Well that is a horrible test by Av-comparatives DLeRium, shows a few AVs are crap and rest are more or less equal - on their limited test.

Since then Avira has a new setting called "optimized scan" which takes advantage of dual+ cores when scanning. Wow! of course it does not detect this automatically and user must do it themself - after activating "Expert mode". A whole 5% will do that 😉 Well, Avira has always been and still is light - regardless of that test. Which is bogus in many ways. I think their overall judgement of more or less equal performance is correct. Nothing to worry about - with the exception of Kaspersky perhaps. Matter of setup/settings I guess. I also bought it at 6 and well, it has changed 😉 Not so sure you can graph that, test yourself...

 

[Marty502]

Whoa, didn't know about Avira's "optimized scan". Just enabled it. Should be better!

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: lopri
I've been sticking to Kaspersky for years now, but after trying out new Norton I have to say I'm impressed. (2009 version) It's a very, very different from the Norton that I used to know.

I had renewed a family value pack [of kaspersky] that I maintain for my fols and decided to take the current 3rd license for myself on a visit. While it runs rather flawlessly and has blocked a bunch of crap, it does destroy the battery life by about 40-50% if I start running a bunch of apps 🙁

Kaspersky used to be great... around 6.0 was when it peaked. I went from 5 all the way till this year and I jumped to NOD. AV enthusiasts typically pick Kaspersky or NOD but I never understood those NOD fanboys until now. The software is so much better.

NOD32 is also at the top of the pack when it comes to resource management. Norton 2009 is actually there too but given Norton's poor track record prior to the current version, I decided to pick NOD instead. Wow. Within no time I updated my whole household's Kaspersky protection to NOD.

http://www.av-comparatives.org...nce/performance08a.pdf if you don't believe me

Originally posted by: Marty502
+1 for Avira Antivir.
In my 64-bit Win 7 install it's using a 1.4 MB process right now.

Memory is one thing, but unless that thing hogs up 500mb of your resources, it should be fine. The key is the general responsiveness gets decreased and AV Comparatives shows Avira in the middle of the pack.

Avira all the way. Using 64bit Win 7.

I rather have system responsiveness then an AV responsiveness.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: Muadib
Kaspersky is what I'm using. They have a version just for the Win7 beta, that's exactly like the Vista version I had. They was a link to it in to action center when it was crying about the version I had. There were links to several of those already mentioned in the thread.

I used it too, but it definitely slowed down my machine. Even when I set everything to "on-demand" only. Getting rid of it was nice. Now I use Clamwin on demand and right click scan suspicious files only.

 

[sxr7171]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: lopri
I've been sticking to Kaspersky for years now, but after trying out new Norton I have to say I'm impressed. (2009 version) It's a very, very different from the Norton that I used to know.

I had renewed a family value pack [of kaspersky] that I maintain for my fols and decided to take the current 3rd license for myself on a visit. While it runs rather flawlessly and has blocked a bunch of crap, it does destroy the battery life by about 40-50% if I start running a bunch of apps 🙁

Kaspersky used to be great... around 6.0 was when it peaked. I went from 5 all the way till this year and I jumped to NOD. AV enthusiasts typically pick Kaspersky or NOD but I never understood those NOD fanboys until now. The software is so much better.

NOD32 is also at the top of the pack when it comes to resource management. Norton 2009 is actually there too but given Norton's poor track record prior to the current version, I decided to pick NOD instead. Wow. Within no time I updated my whole household's Kaspersky protection to NOD.

http://www.av-comparatives.org...nce/performance08a.pdf if you don't believe me

Originally posted by: Marty502
+1 for Avira Antivir.
In my 64-bit Win 7 install it's using a 1.4 MB process right now.

Memory is one thing, but unless that thing hogs up 500mb of your resources, it should be fine. The key is the general responsiveness gets decreased and AV Comparatives shows Avira in the middle of the pack.

Yes NOD32 has always been good to me. I think it's the best paid AV IMHO.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

IMO its too hard to beat Avira AntiVir for what it offers once you disable the nag screens.

 

[starams5]

+1 for ESET (NOD32).

 

[Ballatician]

I am downloading and about to install Avira Antivir (free) on Windows 7. Do I need a separate firewall also? I am not clear on whether there is one included.

fwiw, I'm moving from a paid subscription PC-Cillin to this.

 

[dguy6789]

The built in Windows 7 firewall is all you need.

 

[Ballatician]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
The built in Windows 7 firewall is all you need.

Ah I didn't even realize there was a built in firewall, thanks. Just installed this the other day.

 

[flexy]

kaspersky. Although i didnt check avira in a long time, maybe they got better.