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Definitive Best Antivirus 2008

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Definitive Best Antivirus  

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  1. 1. Your choice?

    • Antivir
      101
    • Avast!
      119
    • AVG
      215
    • BitDefender
      32
    • Clamwin
      4
    • F-Secure
      7
    • Kaspersky
      250
    • McAfee
      21
    • NOD32
      660
    • Norton
      47
    • Panda
      3
    • Sophos
      7
    • Symantec (Corporate)
      61
    • Trend
      8
    • VBA32
      1
    • Windows OneCare
      26
    • Zone
      7
    • Other (please specify below)
      26

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Rapid Dr3am

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I've tried all of them really. AVG is just awfull, to many false positives. Said half the programs on my laptop were trojans.

BitDefender, was like HUGE and slowed me right down.

Clamwin? Yeah right! No on access scanner, I do have ClamwinPortable for when I go places as it's free and I can so a scan on a clients machine.

Kaspersky, what can I say it was an amazing product then it said my licence key was blacklisted (yes I paid) they told me it was pirated and I told them where to go.

McAfee well it's embarressing but I aquired a McAfee CD and I was in need of some protection, so I installed it. It couldn't detect anything and soon got removed.

NOD32 is what I use now, well it's ESS I use but it's the NOD32 av I wanted.

Norton? Are you serious? I have Norton 2008 on my work computer, I tried 360 on my laptop and decided against it still in the trial. Might have been 30 minutes into it.

Zone Alarm Security Suite, used to annoy me so much so let's not go there.

I also used Outpost Security Suite for a few months, was pretty solid. Only it used to remove exe's with zip files inside them.

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Rapid Dr3am

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Antivirus XP 2008 is a virus, it will mess you up quite badly. I've been out to an infected machine with it today.

The user saw it as a free system and of course wanted to save themselves a few pence. I've left them with ESS on 30 day trial, and told them to see how they go.

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Antivirus XP 2008 is a virus, it will mess you up quite badly. I've been out to an infected machine with it today.

The user saw it as a free system and of course wanted to save themselves a few pence. I've left them with ESS on 30 day trial, and told them to see how they go.

It's Malware or Fraudware and can be cleaned by SAS4.1.

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I've tried all of them really. AVG is just awfull, to many false positives. Said half the programs on my laptop were trojans.

BitDefender, was like HUGE and slowed me right down.

Clamwin? Yeah right! No on access scanner, I do have ClamwinPortable for when I go places as it's free and I can so a scan on a clients machine.

Kaspersky, what can I say it was an amazing product then it said my licence key was blacklisted (yes I paid) they told me it was pirated and I told them where to go.

McAfee well it's embarressing but I aquired a McAfee CD and I was in need of some protection, so I installed it. It couldn't detect anything and soon got removed.

NOD32 is what I use now, well it's ESS I use but it's the NOD32 av I wanted.

Norton? Are you serious? I have Norton 2008 on my work computer, I tried 360 on my laptop and decided against it still in the trial. Might have been 30 minutes into it.

Zone Alarm Security Suite, used to annoy me so much so let's not go there.

I also used Outpost Security Suite for a few months, was pretty solid. Only it used to remove exe's with zip files inside them.

Thanks for the overview but you make all these look awful. I don't know what to trust for a family member's Windows computer. I need something free. I would go with Clamwin but... what are they doing without an on-access scanner? I don't know. This relative's been using AVG but now everyone says version 8 is bad.....

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AbandonedTrolley

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KIS 2009 upgraded the other day to it from 7 :)

35 days left on my 3 machine licence and will be renewing it straight away.

Been amazing and lightweight. Have advised a few people to remove Norton from machines and get it and to noice the speed difference, which they couldn't quite belive till they tried it.

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Monk69bl

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Hmm ran Eset and d/l a spyware/adware that was embedded in a Keygen and that killed my machine. Only Panda removed it. Tried all the others.

Friend had the same and ESET scanned it and said clean, he ran it and bombed his whole machine. Can't access the control panel or the task manager and keeps replicating itself.

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