Antivirus Recommendations

Holy crap! It has literally been days since a "best AV?" thread has been started. I was starting to worry!


Anyway,

Yet another +1 for MSE
 
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Script Malware

Avira = 91.6%
Avast = 95.5%
AVG = 60.0%
BitDefender = 89.1%
eScan = 89.1%
F-Secure = 89.2%
G-Data = 99.7%
K7 = 42.4%
Kaspersky = 90.9%
Kingsoft = 17.6%
McAfee = 66.9%
NOD32 = 82.9%
Norman = 63.7%
Norton = 89.9%
Panda = 40.8%
MSE = 77.2%
Sophos = 66.1%
SpywareDoctor = 90.0%
Trend Micro = 76.7%
TrustPort = 91.0%
 
luikang said:
Script Malware

Avira = 91.6%
Avast = 95.5%
AVG = 60.0%
BitDefender = 89.1%
eScan = 89.1%
F-Secure = 89.2%
G-Data = 99.7%
K7 = 42.4%
Kaspersky = 90.9%
Kingsoft = 17.6%
McAfee = 66.9%
NOD32 = 82.9%
Norman = 63.7%
Norton = 89.9%
Panda = 40.8%
MSE = 77.2%
Sophos = 66.1%
SpywareDoctor = 90.0%
Trend Micro = 76.7%
TrustPort = 91.0%
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neat

Nowwwww, what do these percentages represent?
Amount detected?
Amount NOT detected?
Amount taken out to a nice dinner by aforementioned AV program?
Amount date raped after said dinner by aforementioned AV program?
 
Joe Average said:
I trust MSE since it's a Microsoft product, and honestly, there isn't another company on the planet that knows more about Windows - down to the very bits themselves...
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No disagreement there. Unfortunately they don't write the malware so no advantage over any other company on that one.

j-sta said:
8megs memory usage isn't "as light as everyone claims it is?"
and not as effective as everyone claims? av-comparitives.org disagrees.
MSE has consistently scored "Advanced" by their testing



wait, so you mean there's AV apps out there that get absolutely 0 false positives and 100% detection rate? Which ones?
Sure, MSE defs have probably screwed up a few times. But so has Symantec/Norton, Sophos, AVG, and probably just about every other AV out there.
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Memory usage really has little to nothing to do with how light it is. It's all about the disk I/O that I am complaining about.

I never claimed any other product was perfect but I do prefer the paid suites for their additional features, higher detection rates, and more frequent updates. I do recommend MSE to those that I know refuse to spend any money.
 
"Best" is subjective and ratings change every year.

Pick a good AV program, update it regularly. Perform scans on a regular basis, also use a secondary scanner like Malwarebytes or Superantispyware, and that's about the best you can do.

MSE's is on mom's PC.

Avast or Avira for the rest I maintain.

A Fatwallet poster posted how to get AVAST free for 9 months. See below.

Pardon my newbie self if this link violates any posting policy I am not aware of.

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/1112360/
 
evilsofa said:
Source? Are you a G-Data shill?
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G-Data has almost always been the top performer but produces a ridiculous number of false positives and relatively mediocre scanning speeds at best.

Personally, I just run Kaspersky + Sandboxie.
 
xxEIEIOxx said:
AV-TEST Product Review and Certification Report - 2011/Q2
http://www.av-test.org/certifications
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BitDefender with a perfect score for protection and the highest marks all around... how very interesting indeed. Apparently they've come a very long way since the last time I had to deal with this utterly atrocious software about 5 years ago.

I still trust AV-Comparitives a bit more than other sites, so hopefully they'll be doing a full on test here again soon. They did a test in June but Microsoft Security Essentials wasn't included; I think the reasoning for that was Microsoft was just about to (and did) release a more updated version of the app (2.1.1116.0) and decided not to participate with the older version.

We'll see what happens...
 
Joe Average said:
BitDefender with a perfect score for protection and the highest marks all around... how very interesting indeed. Apparently they've come a very long way since the last time I had to deal with this utterly atrocious software about 5 years ago.
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I believe they have come a long way but I'm still not a fan. It is and always has been way to heavy to use.
 
I have used free Avast on my computer for years. I also weekly run Malwarebytes and SuperAntispyware just to make sure everything is ok. I game online and haven't had any problems.

I just want an AV with a light footprint that will do the job and try to practice safe online habits.

My vote is for Avast.
 
Team Obi Juan said:
MSE
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I recently switched from Avast to MSE because Avast was no longer recognized by my Cisco NAC agent... go figure. Previously I had AVG, which I replaced with Avast... The corporate version of symantec is also pretty resource light.
 
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