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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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I recommend Avira or Kaspersky. I've tried MSE and not particularly fond of it, but I do install on clients machines because of the lack of ads/notifications compared to Avira. For paid products it's Kaspersky for me, though. You can get pretty cheap on eBay, but be careful who you buy from.

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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..

It came in 20th place out of 22 anti-virus app in a test by AV-TEST, and detected less than 50% of viruses on the test PC.

In fact, using it place your PC at great risk as you relay on an app that simply doesn't work.

...Microsoft Security Essentials has put on a mediocre showing in a series of recent tests run by international examiners AV-Test.org. The results were deemed so poor that Microsoft actually placed 20th out of 22 antivirus products tested.....

http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2011/20110506_antivirus_suites_compared_microsoft_free_a_v_inadequate.htm

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Norton internet security is very good now

IT'S NOT BLOAT NOW

sure, with machines with 8GB nothing should be "bloated".

I would go with Dr.Web. The best out there and doesnt waste (much) memory and resources.

BTW, Something that really annoys me about Nod32 is that scan PERMANENTLY every file, open/actuallized or not. That kill the free memory and the HD. Oh yes, that would be ppl with SSD that dont need to bother about this anymore.

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I think in recent months Bitdefender has been the best, but really depends on when test websites you use, each one tends to tell a different story. Iv used MSE for quite a few years and never had a problem. Used to use NOD32 but they went a bit crap after v2.5, though saying that i havent tried their latest version

I think generally as long as your careful with what you download, you shouldnt have any problems with any of the ones mentioned in this thread. But if you are downloading dodgy files where its highly likely they're infected doesnt matter which one you're using, youll still probably get infected at some point and so would probably be better off sandboxing your downloading

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It came in 20th place out of 22 anti-virus app in a test by AV-TEST, and detected less than 50% of viruses on the test PC.

In fact, using it place your PC at great risk as you relay on an app that simply doesn't work.

...Microsoft Security Essentials has put on a mediocre showing in a series of recent tests run by international examiners AV-Test.org. The results were deemed so poor that Microsoft actually placed 20th out of 22 antivirus products tested.....

http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2011/20110506_antivirus_suites_compared_microsoft_free_a_v_inadequate.htm

It's not just about detection rates, it's about causing problems. A lot of anti virus software behaves like a virus itself - it slows your computer down, stops it from working properly and makes it unstable. MSE doesn't do any of that, so at least its base line is a better start. If you can find software with better detection rates that doesn't cause problems, that's great, but to date I haven't discovered anything that stays out of the way and doesn't cause problems itself and has as good a detection rate. I was using Panda Cloud for a while which met those criteria, but it wasn't as good at detection as MSE.

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Common Sense, for most people its always up to date. All anti-virus's are is bloat ware. Yeah they do protection but there only as good as they information they know. Its a false sense of security. These days the best protection is keeping everything up to date. Java/Flash/Windows/etc. I work on countless pc's and have seen ALL the anti-whatever installed on the computers. They all still get infected. I don't run a anti-virus or anti-malware myself, slows the expierence of the pc. I keep Doctor Web Cure It on my desktop and use/update it as needed. Single executable and portable, run it whenever i need to scan somthing im not sure about. Thats it.

A perfect example, you get your license by learning the rules of the road. The car doesn't drive itself and you sit back mindlessly. You're only protection is yourself. Every once and awhile you still get hit by another car thoe :-p

If I DO have to install a anti-virus for someone, I use Avast. Its very light on the resources, however on first install its annoying as it tries to update initially and slows down first boot. I have found updating the app/def before restarting on first install fixes that. PCs are soo much quicker without this stuff installed. People wonder why there PC always runs soo slow.

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Norton is the best AntiVirus. It gives least false positives comparing to other AV vendors out there besides that, it's the world's most trusted antivirus solution

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Norton is the best AntiVirus. It gives least false positives comparing to other AV vendors out there besides that, it's the world's most trusted antivirus solution

Its also the most likly anti virus to break your internet when you uninstall it :-p

Anyone ever notice that when using Nortal Removal Tool the program uninstalls 2-3 times as fast? (using this tool usually prevents the internet breakage)

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I use Symantec Endpoint Protection (unmanaged client), which I am licensed to use through my job. Previously used MSE.

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Endpoint is a good choice for a business :)

However Avast Free has saved me a few times, i really like it :)

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Endpoint is a good choice for a business :)

However Avast Free has saved me a few times, i really like it :)

I'd aggree with end-point being a good choice for business. Its saved my work a couple of times with stuff that wants to spread throughtout the network. However the network protection feature also happens to slow down some key services. So its a win/lose situation.

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It's not just about detection rates, it's about causing problems. A lot of anti virus software behaves like a virus itself - it slows your computer down, stops it from working properly and makes it unstable. MSE doesn't do any of that, so at least its base line is a better start. If you can find software with better detection rates that doesn't cause problems, that's great, but to date I haven't discovered anything that stays out of the way and doesn't cause problems itself and has as good a detection rate. I was using Panda Cloud for a while which met those criteria, but it wasn't as good at detection as MSE.

I really don't know what to call you. You use a pathetic miserable anti-virus software because it doesn't put a load on your security-holed Windows PC ?

The primery goal of an anti-virus app in prevention, detection, removal. In all these 3 goals, MSE is really miserable.

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I really don't know what to call you. You use a pathetic miserable anti-virus software because it doesn't put a load on your security-holed Windows PC ?

The primery goal of an anti-virus app in prevention, detection, removal. In all these 3 goals, MSE is really miserable.

If AV software causes problems, it's malware and should remove itself. You need to take your tinfoil hat off.

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I'd aggree with end-point being a good choice for business. Its saved my work a couple of times with stuff that wants to spread throughtout the network. However the network protection feature also happens to slow down some key services. So its a win/lose situation.

I use Endpoint at home, works really well. You can always disable the network protection feature but it has never presented itself as a problem for me.

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I did use NOD32 which is good, but I like the free MSE been running since it came out and have not had any issues at all. All my machines are running MSE. Like I am sure others have pointed out its up to you at the end of the day.

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If you really want to know what is best, here is a comparative: http://www.av-test.org/certifications?order=protection_desc〈=en

Vipre scored just above MSE, bitdefender is the highest scorer, and symantec was in the top 5 of 22 softwares tested. Personally I can't believe that AVG is any good, but this goes back many years maybe they have improved.

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