Barney T. Administrators Posted January 1, 2010 Administrators Share Posted January 1, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 aftas Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 MSE +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 progh Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 MSE :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 lamminium Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Well... in Avast Free 5, you can just fill in your name and email address (yea, just two fields) right inside the program to activate it. It's a fairly quick process. If you don't like Avast any more, perhaps try Avira Free. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Technique Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 It's not that i don't like Avast, it's that i don't like the annoying pop up upon start up & i can't find how to disable it, even using google. As for MSE, i remember reading some members not liking it on 64 bit machines (i'm running Win7 64bit). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Xinok Subscriber² Posted November 14, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted November 14, 2010 Registration for Avast is free! Basically, they want your email address so that they can send you promotional offers and crap like that. If you don't want that, then use a temporary email service to register. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 treemonster Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I'm using Avira and I'm quite happy with it. i like it too, though some people don't like the daily nag at updating, but after like 7 years of using it i'm used to it, although for some reason on win7 x64 ult it doesn't update automatically all the time anymore. aside from MSE i don't think you're going to find an AV for free that doesn't have nagging popups of some kind. that's the price you pay for FREE. if there is one then i'll stand corrected, but it seems like a standard practice for these year lond free tirals that you can just renew after they're done. pretty small price to pay for something as good as avira imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kenji Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 MSE. Edit: I run it on 7 x64 with no issues what so ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nick H. Supervisor Posted November 14, 2010 Supervisor Share Posted November 14, 2010 Antivir does the trick for me, although as treemonster pointed out there is the daily nag when it updates it's virus definitions. But how difficult is it to hit the "OK" button and have it disappear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nagisan Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 In terms of detection (from my experience): Avast, Avira (tied pretty close to Avast, though it had many more false positives in my experience), MSE In terms of ease of use: MSE, Avast (register once a year), Avira (ad popup every time it updates). Thats just my own experience for those three major free AVs, but I have noticed MSE to be one of the worst out of the major free AVs in detection rate, but its super simple to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Julius Caro Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 MSE. Edit: I run it on 7 x64 with no issues what so ever. +1. MSE is great . Mainly because it rarely ever bothers me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HoodiBoY Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 +1 for MSE.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Allis Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 +1 for MSE... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 John S. Veteran Posted November 14, 2010 Veteran Share Posted November 14, 2010 [Threads Merged] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 0trunk Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 +1 MSE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Chaltalian Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Another +1 for MSE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Warwagon MVC Posted November 18, 2010 MVC Share Posted November 18, 2010 Installed FREE Avast a month ago. Now i'm getting registration/activation notices which i've just looked in to disabling as they're irritating (don't want to pay for a program - hence FREE software required). Noticed the program itself now no longer updates & it's no good if you've an anti virus program that wont stay up to date. So any FREE suggestions? With Avast version 5, no product key is required. You can registry directly from inside Avast just needing to give it an email address and name. You can make up both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 war Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 "None" option would have been nice. :p But I recommend Microsoft Security Essentials now that AVG sucks (I uninstalled thousands of installs after 7.0+). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sennan Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Running MSE and NOD32 together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Yorak Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Running MSE and NOD32 together. Uh, that's redundant. May I ask why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bengal34 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Antivirus 360 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Instinct Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 I also vote for ESET NOD32 (I use Smart Security), but Microsoft Security Essentials is close second and best free product! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Astra.Xtreme Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Running MSE and NOD32 together. lol seriously? I don't use/need antivirus, but I install MSE on computers I service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Amodin Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 MSE for me at home, Forefront on business end. Both run the same engine, and Forefront for Exchange utilizes 10 different scanners for the mail store. MS has really done a great job with their AV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Flawed Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Other (please specify): GNU/Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 nubs Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 Currently using ESET NOD 32. I love it and have never had problems with viruses while I have used it. On several occasions it has stopped viruses from web sites and from programs. Haven't used many other recent AV programs so I can't exactly say its the best, but it's good enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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