Definitive Best PAID Antivirus 2017

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

It's a new year, and so we have a new poll for Definitive Best Paid Antivirus.The 2016 thread can be found here.

This is a poll for best PAID antivirus software. There is a separate thread for FREE antivirus software here. 
 
If your choice of paid antivirus software is not listed, please choose Other and specify in the comments.

[+Warwagon MVC]

I think secureaplus's whitelisting is what sets it apart from the rest.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Avast Internet Security.

[Rippleman]

I think most will post simply what they have use without any actual testing or knowledge. Over the years, I have loved doing tests of many for cleaning and prevention. While I have NOT tested out all of the above mentioned names (as well as not doing a wide test for a couple years), Malwarebytes USED to be always top dog in any tests that I performed vs others like Panda, Norton, Macafee, Avast, AVG, Bit defender, Fsecure etc etc. For this reason, I still use Malwarebytes (and have for the last 7 years).

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

8 minutes ago, Rippleman said:

I think most will post simply what they have use without any actual testing or knowledge. Over the years, I have loved doing tests of many for cleaning and prevention. While I have NOT tested out all of the above mentioned names (as well as not doing a wide test for a couple years), Malwarebytes USED to be always top dog in any tests that I performed vs others like Panda, Norton, Macafee, Avast, AVG, Bit defender, Fsecure etc etc. For this reason, I still use Malwarebytes (and have for the last 7 years).

MalwareBytes until their latest release did not have Anti-Virus Protection.

[Rippleman]

17 minutes ago, Gary7 said:

MalwareBytes until their latest release did not have Anti-Virus Protection.

Always a cool story when you/anyone says that, but it always "cleaned" up what other "antivirus" programs couldn't see and/or couldn't remove in ALL tests. Reversely, no protection suite I tested could ever find anything AFTER cleaning with MB. 

Disclaimer: Yes, perhaps I didn't get the "right" infections, however, the infections that I did get are standard files from websites, junk sites, warez sites, porn sites, hack sites, fake AV installs, fake patches, fake programs, bit torrent viruses etc etc etc, which would be what 99% of people would be subject to. 

Edited December 31, 2016 by Rippleman

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

1 hour ago, Rippleman said:

Always a cool story when you/anyone says that, but it always "cleaned" up what other "antivirus" programs couldn't see and/or couldn't remove in ALL tests. Reversely, no protection suite I tested could ever find anything AFTER cleaning with MB.

Not a story friend it is a fact. I use MBAM and have since it came out. It does pick up malware and PUPS but I would never use it as a single source of Protection, but that is me YMMV.

[Rippleman]

1 hour ago, Gary7 said:

Not a story friend it is a fact. I use MBAM and have since it came out. It does pick up malware and PUPS but I would never use it as a single source of Protection, but that is me YMMV.

What I said is also fact. As much as you claim it doesn't pick up viruses, what ever MB called them it did and did very well (according to all other "virus" scanners (i guess all the other protection suites are lying ) And I agree, never rely on just one. I used Avira for a backup scanner -which was never needed. 

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Just now, Rippleman said:

What I said is also fact. As much as you claim it doesn't pick up viruses, it did and did very well (according to all other "virus" scanners (i guess all the other protection suites are lying ) And I agree, never rely on just one. I used Avira for a backup scanner -which was never needed. 

Seven years ago MBAM did not pick up Viruses. It is a great secondary program. I am not disputing that. It was never marketed as an Anti Virus Program.

[Stokkolm]

There's a website for this: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/

 

Kaspersky is the definitive winner.

[Rippleman]

28 minutes ago, Gary7 said:

Seven years ago MBAM did not pick up Viruses. It is a great secondary program. I am not disputing that. It was never marketed as an Anti Virus Program.

Lets  recap just so they was can be perfectly clear. 

 

Fact: MB was not marketed as an avtivirus. Check.

 

Fact: It removed any viruses it found that other suites missed/could not/would not/ and identified.

 

If you are into testing and wish to see for yourself, you can download old versions of MB and try. It appears you may be shocked by the findings. 

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

6 minutes ago, Rippleman said:

Lets  recap just so they was can be perfectly clear. 

 

Fact: MB was not marketed as an avtivirus. Check.

 

Fact: It removed any viruses it found that other suites missed/could not/would not/ and identified.

 

If you are into testing and wish to see for yourself, you can download old versions of MB and try. It appears you may be shocked by the findings. 

It was named Malware---Bytes for a reason.. I posted I used it for as long as I remember!

All-In-One Anti-Malware

 

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/all_in_one_malware_removal_suites.html

 

 

Antivirus

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/all_in_one_anti_virus_suites.html

 

MajorGeeks has it wrong then as they say it is anti-Malware and they are not referring to Chameleon and neither was I///

 

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

4 hours ago, warwagon said:

I think secureaplus's whitelisting is what sets it apart from the rest.

I'm guessing that means it doesn't slow you down when whitelisted applications are running.

[Rippleman]

1 hour ago, Gary7 said:

It was named Malware---Bytes for a reason.. I posted I used it for as long as I remember!

All-In-One Anti-Malware

 

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/all_in_one_malware_removal_suites.html

 

 

Antivirus

http://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/sortname/all_in_one_anti_virus_suites.html

 

MajorGeeks has it wrong then as they say it is anti-Malware and they are not referring to Chameleon and neither was I///

 

All I was saying that most people made the claim it wasn't an AV (even MB themselves), but when testing/using, it did an equal (and better) job at removing "viruses" that it wasn't supposed to do.  I invite anyone to try testing the old versions and see for themselves. 

[The Evil Overlord]

I voted other as ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite wasn't listed

[AStaUK]

I went with Eset as I use it for my office PC's and have found their support to be brilliant, and some of the additional features on the business version are really useful.  Although on my home PC I'm using Kaspersky alongside Malwarebytes Pro.

[+Warwagon MVC]

13 hours ago, James7 said:

I'm guessing that means it doesn't slow you down when whitelisted applications are running.

 

 

Not at all. This means that regardless of definition files nothing new executes in memory without my say so. They also have a huge list of company signatures. So those run without prompting.

[cork1958]

Voted Bitdefender here!

[oldtimefighter]

I bought a 1-year subscription to BitDefender earlier this year after not using a paid anti-virus for over a decade because I admit became a little paranoid about ransomware.  I uninstalled it after 3 months as it just seemed unnecessary and I backup my important ###### anyway. I have literally only had a couple of virus warnings in my whole history of using AV products (like 30 years).  Just being smart along with Windows Defender (cloud option off) , an ad-blocker, and no Flash or Java installed works for me.

 

 

18 hours ago, Rippleman said:

I think most will post simply what they have use without any actual testing or knowledge. Over the years, I have loved doing tests of many for cleaning and prevention. While I have NOT tested out all of the above mentioned names (as well as not doing a wide test for a couple years), Malwarebytes USED to be always top dog in any tests that I performed vs others like Panda, Norton, Macafee, Avast, AVG, Bit defender, Fsecure etc etc. For this reason, I still use Malwarebytes (and have for the last 7 years).

 

17 hours ago, Rippleman said:

Always a cool story when you/anyone says that, but it always "cleaned" up what other "antivirus" programs couldn't see and/or couldn't remove in ALL tests. Reversely, no protection suite I tested could ever find anything AFTER cleaning with MB. 

Disclaimer: Yes, perhaps I didn't get the "right" infections, however, the infections that I did get are standard files from websites, junk sites, warez sites, porn sites, hack sites, fake AV installs, fake patches, fake programs, bit torrent viruses etc etc etc, which would be what 99% of people would be subject to. 

 

I am kinda impressed you are talking all that time to setup test boxes to evaluate anti-virus products but... Personally I prefer to rely on a couple of sites that I trust that are more knowledge than me (or you) and test this stuff for a living but each their own.

[Rippleman]

8 minutes ago, oldtimefighter said:

I bought a 1-year subscription to BitDefender earlier this year after not using a paid anti-virus for over a decade because I admit became a little paranoid about ransomware.  I uninstalled it after 3 months as it just seemed unnecessary and I backup my important ###### anyway. I have literally only had a couple of virus warnings in my whole history of using AV products (like 30 years).  Just being smart along with Windows Defender (cloud option off) , an ad-blocker, and no Flash or Java installed works for me.

 

 

 

 

I am kinda impressed you are talking all that time to setup test boxes to evaluate anti-virus products but... Personally I prefer to rely on a couple of sites that I trust that are more knowledge than me (or you) and test this stuff for a living but each their own.

i agree that is only anecdotal, but it is what it is. About 3 years ago I shut down the store stopped being in the computer business after 15 years, business just came down to trickle of what it used to be. Not too much demand for desktops and support compared to what it was like 15 years ago in my area.  One of the main things through that entire time though of course was viruses and cleanups. Guessing in that 15 years, had probably about 3,000 service calls with customers having viruses problems. Back in the day, options were limited on what a person could do and many times, the easiest/fastest solution was always format and start fresh. Thankfully when companies like MB and the like came around, it made other options start to be available. Malwarebytes (free and paid) were always my go-to program among others of course and did an amazing job. Now a days, if friends or family come to me, it still is my go-to program, after a clean up with malwarebytes, i then install 360 total security since it is free and hassle free and chrome with adblocker. . But, after all these years and my strong recommendations, not to many of my social circle people have issues since once i setup their machine, problems become drastically less likely (mostly non existent).  The only times I seem to have issues is when some of their grand-kids intentionally turn off protection to install something they shouldn't.  

I don't know what I did with the videos I made a couple years ago with the experiments of AV suites, It was definitely time consuming, and took days upon days of work. I may redo the tests again in 2017 with video. I still have interest in this stuff. 

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

I recently switched from Avast to ESET, and the one thing I'm really missing is Avast's email spam plugin. Other than that, happy.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

 

Anti-spam is available in ESET Internet Security and ESET Smart Security Premium, but not in ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky

 

On 1/2/2017 at 11:37 PM, Zagadka said:

I recently switched from Avast to ESET, and the one thing I'm really missing is Avast's email spam plugin. Other than that, happy.

 

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

13 minutes ago, goretsky said:

Anti-spam is available in ESET Internet Security and ESET Smart Security Premium, but not in ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

Ah, thanks, but that is pricey.

[Mando]

Webroot Secure Anywhere hands down.

 

 

[Danielx64]

Anyone here know much about Faronics Anti-Virus?

[T3X4S]

On 1/4/2017 at 10:25 AM, Mando said:

Webroot Secure Anywhere hands down.

 

 

EXACTLY!

When someone mentions another AV is better than webroot - I automatically assume its because they havent tried webroot.


FWIW - I have given a couple neowinians a webroot license for them to try it out  - I havent had 1 person tell me they uninstalled it...