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Best antivirus right now?


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I understand the excitment about MSE being free and working with minimal memory/cpu usage but how efficient is it? I ran a trojan and after selecting "Remove" in MSE it automatically reset itself to "Allow" without my knowledge. Are there any better AVs out there? I have a feeling that the free MSE does not offer the same "real-time protection" as some other products offer. I remember when Norton found a virus but could not remove it it brought out a popup asking to reboot my PC to complete removal... I haven't seen MSE do it in this case.

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Nod32 and Kaspersky...

Some say newer version of Nod32 has been bloated and Kaspersky is a bit slow on scan.... but both are good in detection and proactive scan.

Norton 360 is getting better with its new version release.

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Subject's been beaten to death, besides it's pretty subjective. Ask 100 people and you'll get 110 different answers. Poke around and try a few, see what works best for you.

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Heard good things about NOD. But I personally use Avast! ( don't hate). I works for me. That and common sense.

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Heard good things about NOD. But I personally use Avast! ( don't hate). I works for me. That and common sense.

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Vipre, great product, and works great, low memory use and low system resource use.

I have tried several, and honestly most anti-virus programs suck. I have a 16 gb TrueCrypt file with all my CEH software (ovethousandsds of virus/worm samples, programing tools, everything that you can use to make almost any type of malware, all part of the CEH course ware), when mounted, most Anti-Virus find 5-10 things, MSSC finds hundreds, and Vipre finds about a thosand. Symantec found 3 items, and Avast found 12.

I let the results speak for themselves.

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NOD32 is a brilliant antivirus. It doesn't really bother me in terms of notifications and statistically proven to have a high detection rate and a low false detection rate. At the time time, MSE also does brilliantly with barely any notifications and a high detection rate. I've used every single AV, and found that Avast has bothered me in terms of notifications as well as when I'm playing games on my PC. Now I don't know about that anymore, but if I were you, I'd stick with MSE just because it's free and seems to be a proven AV.

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I use BitTorrent as well as Warez, two p2p platforms that occasionally have viruses.

I've also tested rogue files, and both of the AV's mentioned above have been able to stop these kind of files.

The term "rogue" in my definition are files that I perceive to be deceitful, and others may know better before downloading the file, and may understand that the file is not rogue based on some sort of evidence.

Anyway, the United game is still on so I must get back to that!

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I use avast on my main desktop and mse at my laptop and downloader. I also have a license for Kaspersky at my laptop but I removed it and installed MSE because Kaspersky was very heavy. I am happy both with avast and mse.

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No one click that link.

@alexalex, what are you talking about it has cleaned my PC many times and has stopped a lot bs..

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MSE ? not only it is not considered Best, it even not considered Mediocre and is horrible at cleaning infected PCs.

i never liked MSE, slowed down my pc.

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I would say Norton 360 is the best.

Wow thats crazy. 360 has to be one of the worst programs ever made. Its so easy for viruses to mess up 360 and screw up its firewall, and bam no internet. Seriously I don't know how Norton is still in business.

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Limited User account in combonation with a software restriction policy GPO that disallows executables outside of %programfiles% or %windir%. After that, who cares what antivirus.

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I'm using NIS 2012 Beta and so far it's been great. I don't even notice it's running.

People who knock Symantec really need to try their newer products as they have changed a lot over the past couple of years, for the better.

One product that still sucks is McAfee ... stay away.

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People who knock Symantec really need to try their newer products as they have changed a lot over the past couple of years, for the better.

This could well be true, but it's like the Ford advert campaign a few years back saying "Have you driven a Ford.... Lately?". Once consumer confidence is gone on a particular product (Norton in this case), it's difficult at best to get it back.

One product that still sucks is McAfee ... stay away.

At one time, McAfee were considered the best in anti-virus (many years ago). I'm surprised they haven't yet dropped out of the market, but then I was surprised with Norton trying to make a come-back as well.

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No one click that link.

@alexalex, what are you talking about it has cleaned my PC many times and has stopped a lot bs..

I agree. I went from bloaty AVG to MSE and it has done a pretty fair job at keeping my pc clean.

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