Definitive Best Antivirus 2008

[kinetix63 Veteran]

A fresh "Best Antivirus" poll for 2008. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Happy voting!

[Dance.]

kaspersky here :happy:

[dmd3x]

My AntiVirus of choice is AVG Free because for one, it is free and two, I can also run it on Linux with their Linux version.

However, I would choose Norton if it was cheaper. I have had the best virus recovery experiences with Norton.

[zerologic]

Avira now. :happy:

[Stained]

Recently found interesting antivirus: <snipped>

Somebody knows anything about it?

Edited September 16, 2008 by PureLegend

[Paixao]

Recently found interesting antivirus: <snipped>

Somebody knows anything about it?

Firefox blocks it.

Edited September 16, 2008 by PureLegend

[DarkBlade]

Firefox blocks it.

AVG 8 also blocks opening it on IE.

[Amano]

ESET NOD32 Anti-virus 3.0

[Rapid Dr3am]

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.

[dmd3x]

Recently found interesting antivirus: <snipped>

Somebody knows anything about it?

Looks like mal-ware... I'd recommend against using it. :no:

Edited September 16, 2008 by PureLegend

[Rapid Dr3am]

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.

[zerologic]

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.

[abcdefg]

Antivirus XP 2008

Look at their site.

ROFL

Geniune antivirus software :laugh:

More realiable :laugh:

[..'Ant'..]

AVG is by far the best Ive ever had. I know that NOD32 also is very good.

[rustix]

Kaspersky FTW!

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

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.....

[corona2k]

NOD32 :)

[TheTraderChimp]

I am using Avast... so far so good...

[Rapid Dr3am]

If you want a free AV, you might want to look at Avira Anti-Vir. It's only a virus scanner but it's always ranked quite highly. I've never used it though.

[Ci7]

Firefox blocks it.

both FF3 and Nod32 block the site

i am just wandering what will happen if i disabled both FF and Nod32 and went into the site mmmm let see if vista UAC work or :p

[AbandonedTrolley]

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.

[lalalawawawa]

Using Eset Smart Security and very happy about its performance. It has never slowed down my PC (so far). Plus, I haven't had a virus/trojan/worm for a long time.

[Monk69bl]

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.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

Did you contact their tech support or submit a sample to their virus lab? If so, what did they say?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[Avenger 2.0]

I need a light real-time Antivir (and firewall) for my older laptop. Any recommendation?

[rustix]

Kaspersy Internet Security