Definitive Best *Paid* Antivirus 2015

[nabz0r Veteran]

It's a new year, and a new poll for Definitive Best Antivirus. The 2014 thread can be found here.

This is a poll for best Paid antivirus, there is a separate thread for free antiviruses here.

 

If your choice of Paid Antivirus is not listed, please choose Other and specify in the comments.

[Scirwode]

I am using Norton, Norton 360 for me. It hasn't failed me yet these past few years and it has been light on resources and stable ever since I used it. Was using ESET before but there some things they were scanning that somehow wasn't picked up by them, hence the move back to Norton.

 

Scirwode

[calimike]

There is new anti-virus called "Norton Security for 5 devices." Anyone have tried NS?

[coth]

Somehow DrWeb is missed in the list. It's main competitor to Kaspersky in its home market. And it's older. Back in 1990's-mid 2000's it was more popular than AVT. Kaspersky came to front mainly thank to marketing and rebranding.

I use mainly standalone scanners - AVZ (most of its technologies were acquired by Kaspersky many years ago), Kaspersky AVT, DrWeb CureIt.

[iogbrideau]

Kaspersky Internet Security for me. For a software firewall, the firewall is pretty solid. I was pretty disappointed by ESET Nod32 when I tried it.

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

Somehow DrWeb is missed in the list. It's main competitor to Kaspersky in its home market.

ohh man, dr web was the best.  i remember it saved pc back in DOS times.   i did not know it still existed though.

[Mr. Black]

ESET is the one. I am a virus writter and they released a definition for my last creation within days of its release. And it was not a binary release so they had to compile it and test it etc, they were really fast. Oh, its a Linux virus to make it better. More info about it: www.virusradar.com/en/Linux_Zariche/detail

Put your talents to better uses rather than pissing off people and needlessly causing problems with their systems.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Secureaplus

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

Secureaplus

the thread title said "paid"

looking at this it looks like a free mashup of other companies engines...  in cloud.    not even sure how can they do this as the engines are paid for.     i am confused now.   sounds like a hack.

[+Warwagon MVC]

the thread title said "paid"

looking at this it looks like a free mashup of other companies engines...  in cloud.    not even sure how can they do this as the engines are paid for.     i am confused now.   sounds like a hack.

 

You can pay for it. I paid for it. I really like the whitelisting aspect of the AV.

[Sc0rp]

I would go for Kaspersky , better detections and easier interface in my experience. If you have one suspicious file though, get is scanned using virustotal .

[GotBored]

Trend Micro Anti Virus/Internet Security, seems I'm the only one.

 

Worked on  military contracts and the department of defense use it on their computers and gave me a license from their enterprise plan that they re-license every year.

So I use it basically cause its free for me, until they decide to change anti-virus companies.

 

It fairly lightweight and I haven't picked up anything nasty with it so it seems to do alright.

 

Haven't used Symantec/PC Tools/Norton in awhile but when I last used it, it was very resource heavy and not sure why it has so many users. It was like the Internet Explorer of the anti-virus world, bloated, slow and very behind in comparison to the competition and most systems came with it (like a free 3 month license or something). Will have to check it out again one day.

 

Before my free Trend license I used Kaspersky and I will likely go back to it if my trend license stops working.

[T3X4S]

Webroot Secure Anywhere AV - the best there is
 

[Luc2k]

14 hours ago, T3X4S said:

Webroot Secure Anywhere AV - the best there is

Have they fixed the huge amount of space it uses for monitored files?

[umneycreep]

Working in IT I have done a lot of testing with many antivirus solutions. Nothing even comes close to Eset.

[T3X4S]

On 12/5/2015, 9:22:37, Luc2k said:

Have they fixed the huge amount of space it uses for monitored files?

I know about that bug, I actually heard about it here first, then researched it a little.  People would all of sudden have a 600GB AV folder and run out of disk space - pretty crazy.

I would like to say, yes, it was fixed - but I dont know as the 25 or so machines I admin for (family, friends, clients)  through my enterprise license have never experienced it and when you dont have problems, you tend not to research them much.
 

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

Another nod for ESET. I truly do not even remember it is running on any of my machines until I get prompted for an update. I use it on all of my devices, even my phone, and it is so lightweight and actually does work.
The easiest recommendation I can make from a software standpoint.

[T3X4S]

I like this thread - through 2 pages there have been a bunch of different solutions mentioned, but instead of someone just saying, "Oh that sucks - you dont know" - people are giving their reasons why they rely on a certain brand.  When you deal with people who only use the free crap - their expectations are lower, and they tend to be a little out of the loop on things.  Still of the mindset "well you have to use 2 different programs..."  - not if you're main AV program is good... I havent had MBAM installed in 2 years.

[Shiranui]

22 minutes ago, DirtyLarry said:

Another nod for ESET.

Pun intended?

[T3X4S]

8 minutes ago, Shiranui said:

Pun intended?

I see what you did there 

[primexx]

ESET always wins these popularity contests by far. I'm confused why though, it rarely scores better than Kaspersky on AV-Comp. Why do people prefer ESET so overwhelmingly?

ESET always wins these popularity contests by far. I'm confused why though, it rarely scores better than Kaspersky on AV-Comp. Why do people prefer ESET so overwhelmingly?

[tompkin]

3 minutes ago, primexx said:

ESET always wins these popularity contests by far. I'm confused why though, it rarely scores better than Kaspersky on AV-Comp. Why do people prefer ESET so overwhelmingly?

ESET always wins these popularity contests by far. I'm confused why though, it rarely scores better than Kaspersky on AV-Comp. Why do people prefer ESET so overwhelmingly?

Uh-oh. The "double post bug" is back.

[Mando]

On 05/12/2015, 12:26:27, T3X4S said:

Webroot Secure Anywhere AV - the best there is
 

ditto and yup I agree sire