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Definitive Best Antivirus 2008


Definitive Best Antivirus  

1595 members have voted

  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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I've a feeling these will be the new AVs for 2009 that will emerge as close competitors..

1. Kaspersky IS/AV 2009

2. Norton 2009 <- Really great improvement

3. NOD32

4. Microsoft's new AV/IS, codename "MORRO" which will replace Live Onecare

5. AVG 8.0 - The new beta is great!

6. Bitdefender 2009 <-What I'm using now :D

Anyone else believe there are other AVs that should be in that list? Or strongly believe that some shouldn't be there in the first place?

P.S Try Norton, it will really blow you away.

P.S.S I don't like Trend. I find it really slow and lazy, not to mention taking up hell lot of memory.

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I've a feeling these will be the new AVs for 2009 that will emerge as close competitors..

1. Kaspersky IS/AV 2009

2. Norton 2009 <- Really great improvement

3. NOD32

Anyone else believe there are other AVs that should be in that list? Or strongly believe that some shouldn't be there in the first place?

Seems about right. But I would change the list a little:

1. Kaspersky IS/AV 2009

2. Norton 2009

3. Avira AntiVir

4. NOD32

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I've a feeling these will be the new AVs for 2009 that will emerge as close competitors..

1. Kaspersky IS/AV 2009

2. Norton 2009 <- Really great improvement

3. NOD32

4. Microsoft's new AV/IS, codename "MORRO" which will replace Live Onecare

5. AVG 8.0 - The new beta is great!

6. Bitdefender 2009 <-What I'm using now :D

It'll take quite a bit of improvement for me to ever use or recommend Norton AV again. Every version up to now has been a HUGE resource hog and slows down the machine by huge amounts, they've also been very sloppy with their uninstallers too. I've not encountered the 2009 version yet, but I can't imagine it could change THAT much in just a single version.

I personally use NOD32 for 64-bit Vista, and to be honest I can't fault it. It works great. No PC slowdown at all, at least nothing noticable. The interface is nice and clean, and it gets very frequent detection updates (sometimes 5 or 6 a day on busy days). Also the 4 user pack is very reasonably priced, effectively being half the price (per copy) than a single license. So club together with your family and get it really cheap!

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I save this code to notepad

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Wtf! KAS 2009 dont catch it after i save it. Only if you drag to somewhere, then pop up a Virus found...

dodgy -_-

Nod32 v4 beta did catch JUST after i hit save.

Nice nod32! :)

Both dont catch a virus from https (SSL)

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm#dl

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It'll take quite a bit of improvement for me to ever use or recommend Norton AV again. Every version up to now has been a HUGE resource hog and slows down the machine by huge amounts, they've also been very sloppy with their uninstallers too. I've not encountered the 2009 version yet, but I can't imagine it could change THAT much in just a single version.

I personally use NOD32 for 64-bit Vista, and to be honest I can't fault it. It works great. No PC slowdown at all, at least nothing noticable. The interface is nice and clean, and it gets very frequent detection updates (sometimes 5 or 6 a day on busy days). Also the 4 user pack is very reasonably priced, effectively being half the price (per copy) than a single license. So club together with your family and get it really cheap!

Norton came preinstalled on my laptop (2009) I uninstalled it because I don't use a/v but it really didn't use any more resources than any other a/v. it really is MUCH better. The old versions were god awful though. It seriously changed a lot. and it uninstalled quickly and flawlessly.

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I save this code to notepad

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Wtf! KAS 2009 dont catch it after i save it. Only if you drag to somewhere, then pop up a Virus found...

dodgy -_-

Nod32 v4 beta did catch JUST after i hit save.

Nice nod32! :)

Both dont catch a virus from https (SSL)

http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm#dl

I just tried this with NIS 2009 and as soon as I saved the file on the desktop, NIS blocked the file.

Radish?

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Too bad I signed up for 2 years of NOD32 a few months back. It has never steered me wrong. Gonna stick with it till my subscription runs out.

NOD32 is a very good product. In reality its totally subjective which product is best.

And results can easily be skewed to promote a specific product.

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The best antivirus product for 2008 is a fact - this is Avira! For more information, AV-Comparatives:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/erge...summary2008.pdf

Well there you are. Congratulations to Avira, I guess.

Apparently FP's don't count anymore to AV-Comparatives. That was the main reason why I don't use Avira.

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I agree with you! I also use Avira for the same reason. In my opinion, NOD32 had to win just for that reason. I am tracking all the tests of AV-Comparatives this year and Avira was always about first place for most made false positives. However, congratulations to the team and users of Avira!

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I been using Norton Internet Security 2009 for a week and I am impress. Unlike the pass where it hang your computer and hog my resources. Interestingly, I use it without any significant computer slow down. It doesn't irritated me, it interface is clean, everything I need my antivirus to be, it seem to be it. Norton 2009 seem to be way way better than the past few hundred version. (For your info, when I tried Norton just last week, I have doubt in my mind (I have a free license), I decided to give it a try and now I don't feel like uninstalling it anymore, it here to stay)

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I've always sworn by NOD32, but I've been having problems with it as of late, so decided to try something else. Queue Avira Antivirus...alright, the scan was slow (2 hours), but it detected 17 god damn trojans, worms and viruses.

What the hell happened to Nod32?!

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I've always sworn by NOD32, but I've been having problems with it as of late, so decided to try something else. Queue Avira Antivirus...alright, the scan was slow (2 hours), but it detected 17 god damn trojans, worms and viruses.

What the hell happened to Nod32?!

What the hell do you do online to pickup so many trojans, worms and viruses?

Is you Nod32 configured correctly. I think, you don't.

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Lol, 'configure' a virus scanner? Course it was. I had popups all the time telling me the database had been updated. I'd run a scan every months too.

I run Spybot, and Malwarebytes every few days, so I don't abuse my system. I just find it shocking all that stuff bypassed Nod somehow...

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