Definitive Best Antivirus 2010

[Barney T. Administrators]

An updated "Best Antivirus" for 2010. 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.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

No point in looking for others if you're already aware of MSE's existance.

[Evolution]

Why not MSE? It scored very high on detection rates. If you don't like that then I'd recommend Avira Antivir, disabling the popup and scheduling more checks for signatures.

[Skulltrail]

What's wrong with MSE? You can try Avira. It does very well for a freeware (almost as good as MSE)

I use NIS trial. Never bothered uninstalling it after restoring my notebook to factory settings. :p

Check out this comprehensive test on all of the major league AVs. AV-COMPARATIVES.ORG

[Colin-uk Veteran]

I used to use AVG.

now i use MSE.

[wahoospa]

Avira Antivir, Avast, then AVG in that order but after MSE.

[fix-this!]

No point in looking for others if you're already aware of MSE's existance.

i whole heartily disagree with you. IMO avira is the best antivirus out there.

[Growled Member]

i whole heartily disagree with you. IMO avira is the best antivirus out there.

I've used AVG and Avast and MSE and the best of those three is MSE. I've never used Avira. I may have to give it a try.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

i whole heartily disagree with you. IMO avira is the best antivirus out there.

Why is that?

When I last used Avira it had an annoying pop-up ad window whenever it checked for updates.

Now, no matter how good the application is - if it does something like that, it has to go.

[John S. Veteran]

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[florin.lastname]

For me the firs one is NOD32. And the second is Security Essentials.

[Growled Member]

Currently using Avast. It seems a popular choice. I have no problems with it.

[chrismgtis]

Tried almost everything. Have settled for Avast for the last year or two. The boot time scan option is a selling point for me.

[SteelToast]

Microsoft security essentials is my vote

[BBgamer]

I'm currently enjoying COMODO, I'm surprised it's not on the list. It's free, has a pretty nice AntiVirus, easy to use firewall and a heuristics engine (Defense+). COMODO Internet Security Premium is not completely signature based, which means it's much more secure than other Anti-Virus products. It also has a built in Sandbox, which means you don't have to install Sandboxie or any other Sandboxing programs, which is a nice big plus.

I also love Avast for it's features, but it's no good just being signature based. The new interface of Avast 5 is much nicer than the old 'Car Radio' look that Avast used to have.

[kiwi89]

nod32 for me. It has always done a great job and I've never really had an excuse to change.

AVG would be a close second, we use it at work and it seems to do a good enough job.

[Yorak]

ESET NOD32 Antivirus. I have only had good experiences with this since I first subscribed around three years ago. Of course, I have tested other products and often recommend Microsoft Security Essentials to friends and family due to being (in my opinion) the best free alternative.

[Chosen One]

Microsoft Security Essentials for me :D

[YaZoR]

As much as I like ESET, today they have shot themselves in the foot.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=281024

[Nagisan]

I am a fan of MSE for the fact that it is so simple, install it then ignore it. Avast (from what I understand) you have to register once a year (still free though), and Avira you have that ad popup every update, MSE once its installed is completely transparent until it actually finds something. Which for W7 or Vista with UAC, is great. But MSE on XP has failed on multiple occasion to find a virus. I had 2 clients bring their computer back for me to remove viruses off of, and I had one I was using previously that also got a virus. All while running MSE fully up to date, and all XP SP3 updates that were available at the time.

For XP, MSE just completely blows and offers virtually no protection, for Vista and newer, it works much better and is much more transparent than most other free AVs.

[yowanvista]

KIS2011 user

Simple to use

effective

[Great Kobe]

Despite still being relatively new in the competitive field of antivirus software, VIPRE AntiVirus + AntiSpyware comes out swinging this year with what our team of reviewers found to be the lightest-running, best antivirus software for 2010.

The balancing act with antivirus and anti-spyware is managing to be light-running while still providing PC protection.

This is one place where VIPRE delivers on its promise better than any of its competitors.

Our testing consistently showed VIPRE to be among the best performing software in each test we ran.

TOP FEATURES Solid real-time protection

Great resource usageGood email protection

In fact, some of the older better known antivirus programs like McAfee and Norton didn't do nearly as well as VIPRE this year.

In comparison, VIPRE's light resource usage, strong antivirus and antispyware protection, and excellent customer service consistently pushed it to the front of the pack.

We really were impressed from start to finish.

[stromo]

Another vote for MSE, its so unobtrusive, just sits there and gets on with things

[fix-this!]

for the past two years it's been avira premium up until the other day when i got one too many false positives for my liking. im currently trying out avast 5 and so far it is really nice and lightweight but powerful. i like the total overhaul they did to the UI as well.

[Mambo Boy]

I swore by NOD32, until one day when one of my accounts got compromised. I removed the program and installed Avira which picked up a few viruses, and most alarmingly a nasty looking keylogger. I was lucky because at the time I'd frequently log into poker sites/Neteller where I had thousands of dollars...

A friend who also used NOD32 wasn't so lucky. He had his poker account hijacked and someone played at a few $2000 tables for a few games.

Never gone back to it since. I'm fine with a few bits of malware/cookies sneaking through, but keyloggers? Not good...

MSE + Spybot can't be beaten, in my opinion.

[derkim]

I always stick on Antivir. I never had problems with that and it did always a good work for me.