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Definitive Best Antivirus 2007

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Definitive Best Antivirus  

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  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • [url=http://www.avira.com/]Antivir[/url]
      43
    • [url=http://www.avast.com/]Avast![/url]
      118
    • [url=http://www.grisoft.com/]AVG[/url]
      159
    • [url=http://www.bitdefender.com/]BitDefender[/url]
      21
    • [url=http://www.clamwin.com/]ClamWin[/url]
      5
    • [url=http://www.f-secure.com/]F-Secure[/url]
      13
    • [url=http://www.kaspersky.com/]Kaspersky[/url]
      258
    • [url=http://www.mcafee.com/]McAfee[/url]
      35
    • [url=http://www.eset.com/]NOD32[/url]
      581
    • N/A
      174

  2. 2. Your Choice?

    • [url=http://www.symantec.com/]Norton[/url]
      85
    • [url=http://www.pandasoftware.com/]Panda[/url]
      21
    • [url=http://www.sophos.com/]Sophos[/url]
      17
    • [url=http://www.symantec.com/]Symantec (Corporate)[/url]
      114
    • [url=http://www.trendmicro.com/]Trend[/url]
      38
    • [url=http://www.anti-virus.by/en/]VBA32[/url]
      7
    • [url=http://www.windowsonecare.com/]Windows Onecare[/url]
      83
    • [url=http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_zaav.jsp?dc=1]Zone[/url]
      49
    • Other (Please specify below)
      71
    • N/A
      922

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Grand Master

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A fresh "Best Antivirus" poll for 2007. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Due to limitations of IPB - this will be seen as 2 polls. Select the Antivirus program you wish to vote for, and choose N/A in the other poll.

Happy voting!

Poll choices are links to the software pages.

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Antivr has been doing a good job for me.

I tested alot of the free alternatives, and Antivir is my choice.

The only bad part is that sometimes is a bit hard to update the definitions, i think their servers get overloaded very easily maybe.

If i had to go a payware, i would go NOD32.

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MagicX

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I used to be a complete Kaspersky fan (was using Kaspersky Internet Security), but I recently uninstalled it after it caused a good bit of slowdown, as well as extremely slow virus scans. I also wasn't a big fan of it asking me what to do every so often in relation to the built-in firewall. I decided to install the RC1 version of ESET Smart Security (ESS), and it has been wonderful! It actually found a trojan on my computer that Kaspersky didn't even detect! Also, it scanned all of my files in a comprehensive scan with heuristics in under an hour! The firewall in this suite is very smart and silent; not a single message to annoy the heck out me. :p The RAM usage is minimal also. I'm sold on ESS now. :)

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+jamesyfx Subscriber²

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I can't seriously make a decision to be honest, since I've never actually had a virus infection.

But.. I thought i'd give Avast (free) a test drive and visit some shady sites, and it detected a virius exploit the second I opened the page and stopped the file immediately. So theres a thumbs up. Lightning detections!

Cool program. :)

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Knife Party

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NOD32 v3- nice new interface, fast and efficient

Kaspersly- similar matching performance, but depends on the config settings, best detection, and skinnable!

i used the NOD32 beta AV package, - lack of confidence, i know it has poor detection ratings- no proactive defense, which is uber important.

BAD:

NOD32- interface bugs,update bugs, poor detection when malware has penetrated the system- 27-35MB of ram

Kaspersky- can be rsources intensive- depends on settings, somewhat ugly default interface

i have to say, my tweaked KAV7 runs so smooth, its better than NOD32, although scans are slow, its because of the ''advanced'' heuristics detection component, something NOD32 lacks massively

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miden

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I've switched off Avira, Nod32, Kapersky and Avast. Avira has the best detection rate (in my experience), Nod32 uses little resources , kapersky weasnt so bad and avast was pretty okay. I didn treally like Kapersky for its slwo updates, my nod32 skipped about 7trojans that my Avira found and Avast well i just didnt like it. Voted for Kapersky, but i'd go with AVira :p

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