Tech-Forums Top Rated Antivirus

[mikesgroovin]

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I voted for ESET, but the free version of avast is great too. I typically install that on systems that I repair.

Everyone in the Apok,Mak,Osiris trifecta has great points. As far as thick client end users, it's always going to be a problem. But when it comes to a rack of servers that I'm managing .... I haven't had problems (spam on mail servers, virus, malware, et cetera) for a long long time.... but, of course, thats probably because it comes from the experience of having dealt with a rootkit or some other variant before.

It's like the saying goes with backing up ... there are 2 types of people out there: 1) Those that back up their **** and 2) Those that haven't lost something important before. IMO, it is only a matter of time.

All the more reason why clouds and thin/zero clients via PCoIP are going to be coming around like wildfire to a lot of corporations. Save money on IT resources, back-end server cost and end-user hardware cost... and TIME!!! "Oh, what's that??? You got a virus on your machine?" ... "Hang on a second while I rollback to your last snapshot."

 

[Yerfdog]

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One of my friends got MSE. From what he said, it sounds really good. He did a lot "shady" stuff. It didn't let anything through. He even scanned with other AV's afterwards, too. Like ESET.

 

[Yerfdog]

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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?

In my experience, it seems that Kaspersky is horrible.
It has false positives over a lot of things, like Google's homepage.
And the Orange Box when I was installing it off of the disc. (I bought it at a store.)

My computer freezes up very often. I'm pretty sure there's at least one piece of malware on it. D:

EDIT: Whoops, forgot I already posted in this thread.

 

[Abstract Hero]

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I'm giving MSE a shot

 

[mattk1045]

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I Have MSE. No problems so far. I was using Norton All in One for a long time. Seemed to work good but I hate when anywhere I went online it would give me popups about protection. The best Protection in my opinion is the one you don't know is there. Do the work for me lol

 

[Yami]

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Alright, who voted McAfee? >_>

 

[NoNameNY]

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I like Blink Security by eEye. Great detection capabilities. I ran AVG for a long time and on a whim I deinstalled that and installed Blink and it picked up 2 worms that AVG missed. Since then I have used it on just about every troublesome virus call I have (yes I do not nuke and pave)

 

[joelm3103]

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Voted for Nod32 on the list but my history of AVs go, I used AVG for quite some time and it was good. Recently it seemed to miss a few stuff, so I changed to Nod32. It was awesome...well to me lol, but now I'm using MSE and I like it .

 

[NoNameNY]

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On my work laptop I am stuck with Symantec Corp AV 10.1.6 and I hate it. Its slow, and is a resource hog but I'm stuck with it. If I dont have then Lotus Notes (Yeah I know) won't load

 

[tonys]

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i was using avg for a while but i noticed it lags the comp on startup and scans eats up so much resources. im use nod32 now and its great