Your favourite Antivirus?

[Si Veteran]

Please use this thread as a reference for this topic, as time goes on and availabilty changes, the poll will be updated.

[Shoop]

Oh :s Did it used to be free then? That's crap. Hahaha! Sorry for the topic then :p Though if anyone feels one is better than the other I guess it's a good idea to keep it up ;)

[Martyn]

Cant believe people have voted for NOD32, how can it be the best free antivirus if it isnt even free :p?

[Slimy]

Best free antivirus: avast.

Best pay antivirus: nod32.

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[+Warwagon MVC]

I wish the Registration was easier with Avast (for anyone that knows that the hell they are doing it is, i'm must talking about the average user) I haven't seen the new version of Avast expire yet, what does it do? Does it bring up a wizard that helps you renew it?

[tryeruby]

Norton is the best even using a lot of memory :yes:

[+Warwagon MVC]

Norton is the best even using a lot of memory :yes:

The best??? ... how is detecting a virus but then saying fails to remove it, but you can manually locate and find the virus and remove it yourself, how is that the best?

[quixotic]

The best??? ... how is detecting a virus but then saying fails to remove it, but you can manually locate and find the virus and remove it yourself, how is that the best?

Norton blows. It takes up so much memory. Slows the system down heaps and doesn't even catch everything that is thrown at it. If I recall correctly when installing Norton it also asks you to install a whole bunch of ****e that you don't even need. Call me old-fashioned but I don't want a swiss-army Anti-Virus soluction.

NOD32 seems to work the best for me ( aside from AVG which gets kudos because it has a free version and that free version is pretty good ). NOD32 has a small footprint and catches everything that is thrown at it.

[Martyn]

Cant believe people have voted for NOD32, how can it be the best free antivirus if it isnt even free :p?

Looks like the old thread and this thread have been merged, and now my comment looks stupid as it isnt about this thread :pinch:

[JAbad28]

I used to use Nod32, not I use AntiVir, it's very good.

[MuddyMuDmaN]

i ahve a question my friend needs a free anti-virus andi was wondering which was the best of the free ones besides AVG since ive used that one before and dont real care for it. but anyways which one has lower resources and better detection rate etc... Avast! or AntiVir? or is there another good free one anyone can reccomend?

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic offers a smaller footprint and better detection rates than Avast!. I switched from AVG to AntiVir's beta 7 Classic a few months ago and couldn't be happier. I'm definitely not saying Avast! isn't a good choice, I just think you'll see more and more users switching to AntiVir when version 7 is officially released. Personally, even the beta has been rock solid for me. :)

Seriously, free AV has pretty much been a two name race for a while now (AVG and Avast!), but for those of you still recommending Avast!, you should really check out AntiVir, I think you'll be surprised. No matter where I've looked, their detection rates are at worst equal, but usually much better, and its footprint is roughly equivalent to NOD32 which is way less than Avast!

Edited December 31, 2005 by MuddyMuDmaN

[Sarm]

I've tried many of the following:

Norton (yuk!, slows down any PC), good AV engine though, crap at removal.

McAfee, not bad

NOD32, quite good.

KasperSky, very good.

AVG, not bad at all

BitDefender, stunning

I settled for BitDefender for more than 1 reason, apart from being a very good AV detector & remover, it's footprint was very small, plus it's bundled with an excellent Firewall, Spam and Spyware system - one small program which takes care of everything.

Anyone looking for one simple single package to take care of secuirty, I would seriously suggest to try it out.

It's a cutting-edge package, that is to say whilst it's ahead of many others it can be buggy - one bug is the firewall stops some 3rd party software (such as Partition Magic, Diskeeper etc) from running as the software really does stop just about anything from messing with your machine, they're working on a fix but tend to be slow on bug fixes.

[+Warwagon MVC]

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic offers a smaller footprint and better detection rates than Avast!. I switched from AVG to AntiVir's beta 7 Classic a few months ago and couldn't be happier. I'm definitely not saying Avast! isn't a good choice, I just think you'll see more and more users switching to AntiVir when version 7 is officially released. Personally, even the beta has been rock solid for me. :)

Seriously, free AV has pretty much been a two name race for a while now (AVG and Avast!), but for those of you still recommending Avast!, you should really check out AntiVir, I think you'll be surprised. No matter where I've looked, their detection rates are at worst equal, but usually much better, and its footprint is roughly equivalent to NOD32 which is way less than Avast!

just looking at Antivir's website and it says the premiem edition has pop3 scanning, so the free one doesn't?

[andyqkw]

avast! Antivirus

[Smigit]

I wish the Registration was easier with Avast (for anyone that knows that the hell they are doing it is, i'm must talking about the average user) I haven't seen the new version of Avast expire yet, what does it do? Does it bring up a wizard that helps you renew it?

you get a popup, just like the when you have newer definitions or a virus is found and you get a link to the site.

I believe it was via a popup, either that or you get a prompt when you attempt to get new definitions. Was pretty painless

[byte]

A bit dated but still a very good walkthrough for NOD32 users for all experience levels.

Wilderssecurity NOD32 Guide

[virgo89]

i just got symantec antivirus corporate edition, we'll see how that goes.

[+Warwagon MVC]

you get a popup, just like the when you have newer definitions or a virus is found and you get a link to the site.

I believe it was via a popup, either that or you get a prompt when you attempt to get new definitions. Was pretty painless

ya but that popup saying a new version is available can be poping up on some peoples machines, for ever and they will never click on it. had that a few days ago, went to someones house and connected to the net and it poped up, checked there version number and they were still at 4.1, so you know its been popping up for a while.

[russ0943]

i switched to NOD32 after seeing the response here.....WOW! what a difference. This AV software is like a breath of fresh air. I would recommend it to anyone.

[+Warwagon MVC]

i switched to NOD32 after seeing the response here.....WOW! what a difference. This AV software is like a breath of fresh air. I would recommend it to anyone.

what did you have prevous?

if you had norton, does your computer feel alittle less ass raped?

[Wildies]

Using NOD32 from along time ,and never had any issues with it, but just done a new format and had the chance to try Kaspersky , so i did , and really feeling the same secure feeling of NOD32 and it doesnt take alot much ram ..

so my fav list will be :

1) NOD32

2) Kaspersky

but wanna know , does anyone have any bad experince with Kaspersky??

[xlnet]

i used kaspersky

[Starcraft]

Kaspersky is my favorite.

Its tech is No.1, but not too successful in market place. :cry:

Kaspersky AV Personal Pro needs proper configuration in earlier version like 4.x. But now I think there are no compatibility issues and it is easy to use.

Edited January 5, 2006 by Starcraft

[gigapixels Veteran]

Well, I've used Norton AV, Kaspersky, NOD32, AVG, and finally Symantec AV, and I would have to say my favorite out of all is Symantec. I'm talking about the Corporate edition... It's so nice on resources and so very out of the way... Me likes it very much :D

[+Warwagon MVC]

hmm easy on resources? I installed the corp 10 version and I went from like 25 processes to like 33 I was like WTF.. so I uninstalled that and tried Avast and I went to 27 Processes ... MUCH better.

[MacOSXMan]

AVG and Kaspersky

My goal with security, small memory foot print programs, as few processes running as possible, and common sense so I don't need too much crap running lol That should go with anyone no matter how powerful a machine you have, thats my opinion though, rant on...