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Definitive Best *Paid* Antivirus 2015

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Poll: Definitive Best *Paid* Antivirus 2015  

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  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • Avast! Pro/Internet Security
      11
    • AVG Antivirus PRO/Internet Security
      1
    • Avira Antivirus Premium/Pro/Endpoint
      7
    • BitDefender Anti Virus/Internet Security/Total Security
      16
    • Comodo Endpoint Security/Internet Security Pro
      1
    • Emsisoft Anti-Malware/Internet Security
      0
    • ESET NOD32/Smart Security/Endpoint Security
      64
    • Kaspersky Anti Virus
      20
    • MalwareBytes Anti Malware PRO
      4
    • McAfee Anti Virus
      0
    • Panda Anti Virus/Internet Security
      0
    • Sophos Endpoint
      0
    • Symantec/PC Tools/Norton
      19
    • Trend Micro Anti Virus/Internet Security
      1
    • Vipre Anti Virus
      0
    • Webroot
      6
    • Other (please specify below)
      5

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
 

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

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