The Definitive "BEST ANTIVIRUS" thread

[MxxCon]

i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update.

BEST ANTIVIRUS

[Jason the Eighty Eighth]

the question isn't really defined clearly enough. for all you know, some companies may pay tens of thousands of dollars to buy an antivirus/firewall, as opposed to our $40-50 Norton programs.

...which i use :) easy to update, secure for the typical home computer, user friendly, cheap, what more could you ask for?

[Veedems Veteran]

holy crap. Just got rid of mcafee and put on avg and my system is so much more responsive. Reason? Everytime I ran a program, mcafee would jump to 75% cpu usage for a second or 2 while it scanned. It killed me.

[eyad]

Hi guys I'm new to your site but believe me have expreinced alot of good programs & I think PCCILLIN is the best AV of all by the kinds it catches or it's built in Firewall, it has found a lot of viruses that Norton was an easy victim of theme.

[ctebah]

I have Ad-Aware right now and I like it but im not sure if it will find any viruses. Im looking for an Antivirus program that's small yet offers frequent side updates with new virus definitions [something like ad-aware].

what should I use, I would really like some suggestions.

[Gee.B]

Gosh dont even consider Norton, their software are so heavy , and slow down everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[username]

how about you don't use any, don't open email attachments, and shady download (Y)

[mtrftw]

seriously, either use search or look at the sticky about best anti-virus program at the top of the forum.

[Spyder Veteran]

merged again

[philmcneal]

This antivirus is pretty good and fast performance too! ( Not when an exe is 500 megs though -_- ) and it's made from Germans ^_^

[linsook]

been running NAV for a few years now, i dont notice a slowdown... but i feel like giving AVG a try.

[Jay]

I prefer Kaspersky. A bit on the expensive side but well worth it.

I can't give an honest opinion on Norton's later versions, but from previous experience, it sucked. Also, it's darned near impossible to completely get rid of without a reformat.

[SSRules]

f-secure is good for me....nice fast and light on resources

[Fred Derf Veteran]

Gosh dont even consider Norton, their software are so heavy , and slow down everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Norton and Symantec should not be included on the poll as the same item.

Norton AntiVirus is bloatware and should be avoided at all costs.

However, I rather like Symantec AV Corporate or Small Business Edition.

I ended up voting for PC-Cillin just to avoid the confusion that someone might actually think I liked Norton AV.

[KTamas]

VirusBuster....itsa GREAT hungarian antiVirus...

[seba79]

http://www.mks.com.pl/english.html

best in Poland from few years

[aitf311]

Ever since norton didnt find anything and i installed AVG and it found 3 trojans, ive been using AVG

[Ritalin]

Exactly same here, i love avg 7 pro.

[DsnBehind]

Just tried McAfee VirusScan = (N)

What's with the "Security Center"? All I wanted was the virus protection. I don't care that they also make a firewall, spam protection, et cetera.

Why did it update itself through Internet Explorer? There should be an integrated/seperate program for updates.

[jymi]

NAV 2003 kicks ass

McAfee is good too

[daveoc64]

NAV for me!

[caerma]

Norton/Symantec [ 101 ]

:cool:

[snippet1]

I use NAV, but my dad forces me to use VET. I am therefore forced to use both, and he whinges when he doesn't disable VET before checking email and they confict with a million pop-ups. VET Sucks - it doesn't have email checking, and it offers no options for cleaning/removing the virus when its resident monitor finds one.

[C:Amie]

McAfee here.

In my personal experience, Norton's missed so, so, so much. It couldn't find a trojan if you gave it directions. While not perfect (in reality none of them are 100% fool proof I guess), it's been the most accurate in my expeience.

While version prior to 6 were shocking beyond belief. (5 used to kill Windows Millennium completly) 6 was a vast improvment.

McAfee also has a PDA Host side scanner for EPOC, Palm, Windows CE and others, which is useful.

[William]

By far the best Antivirus solution is to not download anything you're not sure about and stay up to date on windows updates. Pretty simple, I know however very few people can mannage it.

[C:Amie]

So very true.

I've never had a virus on my systems (that I didn't put there to discet) and I like to think that's because I'm careful.