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Which is Currently the Best Free Antivirus Available
Going to reformat and install Win8 on one PC's and Win7 on the other. Last post I can find on PC Antivirus is June 2011. A lot can change in that time. Good security is essential for everyone using the internet so should be in everyone's interests.
Tried a few over the years. A few years back I used AVG but found it slowed the system down. Changed to Avast but that was slowing my downloads by half because it insisted on scanning every file. Could disable the option but it kept re-enabling itself. Currently have Avira on one machine but it pops up with annoying messages saying it has disabled autorun for security, even though autorun isn't enabled with me anyway. Got Comodo internet security on the other machine which seems fine at the moment... but is it the best. One annoyance is that Comodo won't let me disable the antivirus when I want to.
Also running Spybot S&D on both machines which I have no complaints about, and also MalwareBytes which is ok but sometimes annoying in blocking websites that I know are not a risk.
I would assume that quite a few of us here use our PC's for many similar downloading tasks and visit similar web sites. So in your opinion what is the best antivirus which has a good balance between security and not having to put up with annoyances. What else are using alongside the antivirus software. Fine tuning can also make a big difference so what are the preferences you have changed to make it work as you want; because if it works for you it will probably work for a large percentage of other forum members.
Searching the web it seems that Avast is now highly rated by many review sites. As I said a lot can change in a couple of years so maybe I should give it another chance. Just thought I would ask here first to get an unbiased opinion. (">
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Microsoft Security Essentials + Malawarebytes
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What he ^ said
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Nibb
Microsoft Security Essentials
2nded ;-) AVG is like trying to catch water in a colander
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Exactly as above.... someone said to me which is true.... M$ should be the best people to try stop virus's on their own OS.. They should know it better than anyone else
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always gone for avast myself (we use it at work) and had no problems, if you disable the scanning of secure NNTP then your downloads etc. should increase and avast will still catch any problems once the files are extracting
not saying its the best solution but it works for me
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Nibb
Microsoft Security Essentials + Malawarebytes
Since I stopped using NOD32 this has been my preferred choice.
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Was considering Microsoft Security Essentials until I read this below. So would you disagree with this PC Pro review of Microsoft Security Essentials.
True to its name, Security Essentials covers only the bare basics of malware protection. You might think that means less bloat slowing down your system, but in fact Security Essentials added 13 seconds to boot time and 125MB to our system’s RAM usage, making it heavier than some fully featured suites.
Security Essentials updates its signature database only once a day, while many paid-for packages run to an hourly schedule. This may partly explain why it stopped only a shocking 67% of zero-day threats in AV-Test’s detection tests, and even missed 10% of more established threats. This isn’t what we’d call peace of mind.
If you’re looking for free protection, consider Avast Free Antivirus instead: it’s a more lightweight program and provides much better protection.
Source: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/softw...ity-essentials
Maybe the review is correct and it's downfall is only with regard to malware protection. In that case running Malwarebytes alongside it makes sense. (">
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elephantsoup
Since I stopped using NOD32 this has been my preferred choice.
Same here and never had a problem
So far!
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BigBird
Was considering Microsoft Security Essentials until I read this below. So would you disagree with this PC Pro review of Microsoft Security Essentials.
"Security Essentials updates its signature database only once a day"
Yeah, I'll call bullshit ;-)
The virus definitions for Security Essentials were released to the update servers 3 times daily way, way before MSE was even released. Forefront Client Security, which was only available to Enterprises, used the same updates, and it's replacement, Forefront Endpoint Protection, uses them too.
I believe that the number of definition updates may also have gone up since then too and may be as many as 10 now.
Edit: No, just checked, still 3.
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I've used avast for years and it's never caused me any problems...no issues at all with downloading
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AVG has been redesigned and since then I've not had any problems with performance etc. It's all swings and roundabouts but I use AVG on all my PCs (except my server) and all is good.
Been tempted to try out a different one for a while. Mainly for my gaming PC but AVG seems to do the trick for me.
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I used MSE up until it found my Windows 7 was questionable - it stopped updating and practically crippled my machine.
Since then, Avast has been serving me well.
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I'm not sure you can have a one size fits all virus protection. I only use MSE but then I'm unlikely to install random infected files which is my main protection.
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Using NOD32
But as the little one gets older I will add an untangle box to our home network....
And maybe just have an esxi running with windows as a VM.
All you need then is just a thin client.
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Microsoft Security Essentials + Malawarebytes + Pest Patrol
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MSE has started to piss me off, often gobbles up all the CPU and brings my system to a halt and always finds the same virus at boot, which is also worrying. PC i am using is utter shit so I need something lighter. Will give one of these suggestions a pop.
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Undertaker
Using NOD32
But as the little one gets older I will add an untangle box to our home network....
And maybe just have an esxi running with windows as a VM.
All you need then is just a thin client.
I haven't run untangle for a while but I remember some viruses would still slip through. Also was disappointed when they dropped Kaspersky as their AV provider.
Also found the free modules were good to show the box was working but for real protection you needed the paid modules. (webfiltering/antispam/virus protection were the main things I was after and checked out).
If you're going to run an esxi server you could also run untangle on there. They don't recommend it, but unless you are going to be using anything like voip which is very timing critical, it shouldn't matter.
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Avast free is great once you turn of the sound notifications and pop ups.
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eblaster101
Avast free is great once you turn of the sound notifications and pop ups.
It's made better when you install the pirate language pack and turn it up load when you boot up.
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Kaspersky Internet Suite ... 3 years, no resource hogging, no attacks. I get it free through my bank though so if you don't want to pay for it, then carry on...
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neo2810
Kaspersky Internet Suite ... 3 years, no resource hogging, no attacks. I get it free through my bank though so if you don't want to pay for it, then carry on...
what he said
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Totaly off topic .well kind of. I got bt internet switched on yesterday and it came with free macafee family protection ... sounds safe as fuck pmsl ...
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/th...fee4_large.jpg
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i have tried a few over the years, but for free i stick with Avast,
Turn off Animation as it can use up resources,
Once installed it does the rest.
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Hmmm... People running MSE should take a look at this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/good...rty-antivirus/
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Very interesting article.
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Avast seems to be doing the job for me. AVG seems to be a bloated mess in recent years. For a netbook, I'm using Panda which seems nice and light.
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I use MSE. It did have issues with a version on Windows 7 I was "trialing" so I had to put AVG which was fine. I used to use AntiVir and had no issues with that. Which? magazine give MSE one of the top marks so can't be all bad?
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I use MSE on my Revo but it's allowed me to be riddled with viruses. Malware Bytes rounds loads of stuff that MSE had allowed to be installed.
I'm not sure what to put on my micro server. I can put McAfee VirusScan Enterprise on it for free but not sure what to do for the best.
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Tried AVG, MSE, NOD, Panda, Kaspersky, Norton (haha) and McAfee in the past, but always find myself back at Avast.
Current version (Avast Free 2014) is the best yet.
Swear by it and recommend it to all my customers.
Minds it's own business, checks stuff it's not sure of (previews in a 'auto-sandbox' before letting loose on the system). But generally minds it's own business.
Not had a Virus in almost 4 years now...
so +1 for Avast.
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Mse fell down the tests recently but I find it lighter than avast. Avast seems a bit overkill to me but is decent, it messes with some Citrix VPNs though so I can't always use it. When I am supplying a paid for program I use Eset smart security. I try to pair the av with malwarebytes pro.
Thing to note, mbam v2 is in beta, once released they are moving to an annual subscription model but will honour lifetime licences so get a legit licence ASAP ;)
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i tend to stick with avast and malwarebytes myself, seems to work fine and doesn't interfere with my vpn or any other software i run
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I've just tried Avast bases on recommendations but it's not compatible with server 2012. Any other suggestions?
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