Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus

TF Top Rated Antivirus 2013

  • MSE - Microsoft Security Essentials/ Windows Defender

    Votes: 22 31.4%
  • AVG

    Votes: 6 8.6%
  • Avast

    Votes: 12 17.1%
  • ESET NOD32

    Votes: 6 8.6%
  • Avira

    Votes: 2 2.9%
  • F-Secure

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Symantec Endpoint Protection

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Norton

    Votes: 6 8.6%
  • McAfee

    Votes: 4 5.7%
  • BitDefender

    Votes: 4 5.7%
  • Kaspersky

    Votes: 7 10.0%

  • Total voters
    70
Re: Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus 2010

Avg is like going ****. At every starting of pc, it satarts too and it is hard to make it disabled.
 
Re: Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus 2010

I am a PC tech at a small company, and I have moved almost exclusively into the anti-malware, network monitoring, and general security realm altogether. I cannot believe the spike in malware activity AND the constantly-improving tactics and techniques used by the "bad guys".

In my personal opinion one single antivirus product cannot cut the mustard. I have been most successful with using a combination of the following: Bitdefender 2010 (I feel it is important to have an advanced firewall monitoring feature) or Kaspersky, staying on top of Microsoft's latest patches, SysInternals Suite, and a handful of free anti-rootkit and anti-malware apps available online (combofix, UnHackMe, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Helios Lite, GMER, etc.) Also, a good Host Intrusion Detection System is useful as well (OSSEC comes to mind).

I do suggest using as many tools as possible because of the necessity of cross-referencing results. One product might pick up on something that another product missed altogether.

Although, Norton, Eset, AVG, and the like are all very common, very popular choices, I feel that they do not come close to something like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, or even the free A2 Squared. Mind you, this is only my opinion :) Though I understand that Symantec/Norton has greatly improved this year in detection rates and even surpassed Bitdefender in areas (Bitdefender is slow, but I have been happy with the detection rates). Kaspersky was my favorite before I learned about and started using Bitdefender for my clients.

In the end, I have been most satisfied living in two worlds: the Windows / Linux dualboot solution!

Anyone else feel the same?
 
Re: Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus 2010

Very nice discussion on what you use; I think most everyone will agree to using combinations of the programs you listed.. However, I think this thread is specifically about which anti-virus you would use in your "combination" of programs.

My personal favorite is MSE :) Microsoft did an awesome job creating it. It's so simple and intuitive without annoying pop ups asking for registration renewals etc.. I can feel confident that my customers won't get too confused when its installed on their machines. On top of that it works very well in helping remove most viruses.
 
Re: Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus 2010

LOL! and I completely agree! I consider myself a "safe" browser, and only once in a great while do I ever get a virus at all. but at the same time, I run a serious antimalware suite, consisting of Avast!, Malwarebytes, Hijackthis, Comodo Firewall, Spybot S&D, Spiceworks Network Security, Comodo LivePC Support, and my drives are encrypted with Comodo Disk Encryption. lol
 
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