Which is the best anti-virus program to use – if you want to buy it?

[jill8beans2]

· Cyberdefender – Great scanner that removes Trojans, spyware, but need upgrade to remove viruses, comes with 24/7 computer help. NASDAQ Company.

· Norton 360 – Expensive, my experience with Norton was not so good, and it was slow. NASDAQ Company

· Prevx – Good free scanner, cartoon look, only scans – need to buy to remove anything.

· PC Tools – nice interface, private company so who knows how stable they are, but software is fully functional for free.

· SuperAntiVirus – Corny name, but has 12 million users, but I found it a little slow.

· AVG – popular for the free version but it only works 30 Days before you must buy, but we found it slow, and the paid version offers nothing additional.

All of these offer a $29 paid version (except AVG - $34 is cheapest paid version). We are leaning to Cyberdefender, but we would like some feedback on this.

Which is the best free version?

Which offers the best protection/speed balance?

 

[PICK3]

quit surfing the geigh pron

 

[Arabian]

Go to AVG.com and download the best anti for free.. Now you can pay me $250.00 for the advice via paypal

 

[Creepusmaximus]

Best pay one is this. Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab

That's a link to their free virus scanner but I would go for that.

AVG has a free version for a year and works fine.

 

[tyty7]

I have tried most of them and found Webroot Anti-Virus the best:

Webroot | Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware

 

[UA_Iron]

AVG free for basic protection.

Once you get infected google search for solutions.

Use programs like "sandboxie" for program isolation (provided you are using a 32-bit OS) - this is really one of the best things you could do.

Warez, pirated programs are really the bane of the viral infections. I have to deal with them all the fucken time.

Do not pay for antivirus is my opinion. Most of even the paid ones will not solve a lot of virus problems.

 

[canadianhitman]

I like Kaspersky

 

[mrplunkey]

· Cyberdefender – Great scanner that removes Trojans, spyware, but need upgrade to remove viruses, comes with 24/7 computer help. NASDAQ Company.

· Norton 360 – Expensive, my experience with Norton was not so good, and it was slow. NASDAQ Company

· Prevx – Good free scanner, cartoon look, only scans – need to buy to remove anything.

· PC Tools – nice interface, private company so who knows how stable they are, but software is fully functional for free.

· SuperAntiVirus – Corny name, but has 12 million users, but I found it a little slow.

· AVG – popular for the free version but it only works 30 Days before you must buy, but we found it slow, and the paid version offers nothing additional.

All of these offer a $29 paid version (except AVG - $34 is cheapest paid version). We are leaning to Cyberdefender, but we would like some feedback on this.

Which is the best free version?

Which offers the best protection/speed balance?

Best anti-virus product out there is Mac OS X 10.5.5

 

[UA_Iron]

Best anti-virus product out there is Mac OS X 10.5.5

gotta be for that though.

 

[mrplunkey]

gotta be for that though.

Either that or a serious Unix user. MS-DOS is great, I just don't like having to put a quarter into the slot each time so the game will play.

 

[jill8beans2]

Thanks for the chuckles! It seems i have more homework to do. . . .

 

[think2nite]

I have battled several viruses this year and used a few free anti-virus, trojan and spyware programs. I got tired of looking through them all, so I talked to my friend who work with computers all the time about it and he said he would do a test.

He got several free anti-virus programs and installed them one at a time on a fresh system and infected them, then he recorded how many and which ones the anti-virus program recorded after a scan.

He told me that he had to wipe the systems and clone the drive from a clean one for each test, and that in the end most of them found a lot of the same spyware, viruses and trojans.

He said that the differences between the anti-virus programs were that outside of the common stuff they all found, each program had some viruses they didn’t find, and other found those but not other ones. He made a graph, but I don’t have a scanner so I can’t put it up here.

We looked at all the test and he felt that Cyberdefender was the best of the bunch because it found all the common viruses, and the largest number of non-common viruses.

Now, most of the free anti-virus programs he tried he said were either just scanners that would only remove the problems after you buy, or were 30 day or other limited version, but they all gave a good indication how the paid versions would work.

I bought and installed Cyberdefender for my computer (he got it for his companies systems also) since it seems to offer the best protection, for the best price with features others didn’t offer as part of the package.

My friend also told me that one of the things that he like about Cyberdefender is that it runs fast and that for a home user, the 24/7 computer help service could be very helpful.

 

[puddlemonkey]

I have battled several viruses this year and used a few free anti-virus, trojan and spyware programs. I got tired of looking through them all, so I talked to my friend who work with computers all the time about it and he said he would do a test.

He got several free anti-virus programs and installed them one at a time on a fresh system and infected them, then he recorded how many and which ones the anti-virus program recorded after a scan.

He told me that he had to wipe the systems and clone the drive from a clean one for each test, and that in the end most of them found a lot of the same spyware, viruses and trojans.

He said that the differences between the anti-virus programs were that outside of the common stuff they all found, each program had some viruses they didn’t find, and other found those but not other ones. He made a graph, but I don’t have a scanner so I can’t put it up here.

We looked at all the test and he felt that Cyberdefender was the best of the bunch because it found all the common viruses, and the largest number of non-common viruses.

Now, most of the free anti-virus programs he tried he said were either just scanners that would only remove the problems after you buy, or were 30 day or other limited version, but they all gave a good indication how the paid versions would work.

I bought and installed Cyberdefender for my computer (he got it for his companies systems also) since it seems to offer the best protection, for the best price with features others didn’t offer as part of the package.

My friend also told me that one of the things that he like about Cyberdefender is that it runs fast and that for a home user, the 24/7 computer help service could be very helpful.

You sound like an infomercial.

 

[nangiggles]

No anti-virus is going to protect you 100% that's why it makes me mad paying for it, Norton is worse than an actual virus, Mcafee sux, Kasperky is pretty good

I'd go with the free versions of spybot search and destroy + AVG

 

[puddlemonkey]

I'd go with the free versions of spybot search and destroy + AVG

That combo has always worked for me.

 

[think2nite]

You sound like an infomercial.

Golly, I am going to fly to Hollywood and see if I can replace the Shamwow guy!!