Which Antivirus is best for now

[humble]

Threatfire is a freebee, obviously its not going to have support...although it appears to work seemlessly with just about everything. McAfee 8.5 is about a 4th generation upgrade on an existing enterprise application. For better or worse notes is a pretty widely used business application. There are numerous issues with 8.5 far beyond this one. As far as I'm concerned its rollout (initially) was on par with the best of gatesdom. None of which is relevent to the issues at hand here...

My advice is and has been pretty basic, if your going to buy a product....do just that, by the product, not the "name", hype or marketing. Recognize that no product you buy is going to be 100% bullet proof and that many are less capable then the quality freeware. Regardless of what you buy how you interact with the big blue nowhere will greatly impact your personal realities in cyberspace.

[1701E]

If you don't wish to pay then some of the highest-ranking and best protective products are: Spybot S&D, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, AVG, and if needed zone-alarm (i don't use it but it's rated decently)

[Wingnutt]

none, Linux..


hehe, on my windows boot, AVG since.. forever..  its nice and quiet, unless there is a problem.

[llama]

If you care about system speed, low background overhead, and the best detection rates, then Eset's NOD32 really is the best.

About $30 is a small price to pay for some peace of mind and a product that won't slow down your system.

-Llama

[CHECKERS]

If you care about system speed, low background overhead, and the best detection rates, then Eset's NOD32 really is the best.

About $30 is a small price to pay for some peace of mind and a product that won't slow down your system.

-Llama

 I had upgraded to (NOD)  EsetSecuritySuite ...... I did not like it,   I switched back to NOD32 AV 2.7 .

 Regards,
CHECKERS
 
   

[Sincraft]

1. start internet explorer
2. goto google.
3. type in mozilla firefox
4. take first link and click download.
5. install firefox.
6. use firefox from now on.  Only use IE if you MUST do something and it won't work on firefox (rare)
7. repeat steps 1 - 4 but instead of firefox, replace with avg free.
8. find proper free avg version and download/install it.  Click next a bunch of times and you are done.
9. if you are sitting on a router behind a cable modem...stop here.  If not continue.
10. repeat steps 1-4 but this time type in zone alarm
11. download zone alarm personal edition.
12. run windows update once a week and download the critical updates.

If you get anything and followed these steps, you officially shouldn't own a computer.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Otherwise good advice but change Zonealarm to Comodo free personal firewall instead. And use sandboxie for all browsing, IE or not.

[humble]

The two other issues here are that AVG is very good at waht it does (definition driven AV), however it is not going to offer any "zero day threat" capability and it wont deal with certain types of malware not widely considered to be a virus. Anyone running any free AV software should be running threatfire as well. In addition some type of malware (windows defender) product as well.

both Comodo and sunbelt keiro run circles around zonealarm IMO as well...but all in all good advice

[LePaul]

Been using TrendMicro's Internet Security and AntiVirus now for a few months.

Lot less bloat than Symantec was

[Joker]

I had upgraded to (NOD)  EsetSecuritySuite ...... I did not like it,   I switched back to NOD32 AV 2.7 .

 Regards,
CHECKERS
 
   

Just curious...what don't you like about the Eset security suite CHECKERS?

Joker

[CHECKERS]

Just curious...what don't you like about the Eset security suite CHECKERS?

Joker

 The firewall .