Antivirus

furpile said:
Crazy how some companies have the DVD roms removed from new pc's, but flash disks are so much easier to spread crap with.
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Old fashioned policies. I disable Mass storage USB drive access rather, the rest will work (modems printers etc)
 
Bitdefender Internet Security. Cheap and effective. I've never had to pay more than R100 for a 1 year subscription.

Almost as effective as Kaspersky, and slightly less likely to crash.
 
Totempole said:
Bitdefender Internet Security. Cheap and effective. I've never had to pay more than R100 for a 1 year subscription.

Almost as effective as Kaspersky, and slightly less likely to crash.
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I uninstalled Bitdefender one month into my license. Endless stream of problems with it - all of which went away when I changed to Kaspersky. I had AVG before then and also had no issues with it.
 
VB100 RAP results (Dec 2014)

https://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml

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Reactive And Proactive (RAP) which indicates a vendor's ability to detect emerging viruses (the window) and detecting previously unknown viruses. That graph excludes Panda (which has a VB100 award) and Sophos which also hits the top right in other RAP tests. These tests are also more applicable to business environments than your home, they also use the cloud anti-malware variants (in most cases) to do the testing.
 
Vir149 said:
Anyone else using Panda AV?
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Yes and no, every anti-virus has a purpose where it's most applicable. We do run test environments with Panda, Sophos, iSheriff, Webroot, Symantec and GFI, all cloud editions. Ignoring Sophos here, iSheriff and Panda takes the cake, but do note Panda had an update flaw a month ago which detected virus signatures in Windows DLL files… took Panda 3 days to resolve the issue…

In summary, Panda is a well-rounded anti-malware, but the web filtering sucks. Webroot has amazing web filtering. Sophos is a very strong SMB/Enterprise product and iSheriff is well suited for any MSP. GFI… … …
 
Bryn said:
I uninstalled Bitdefender one month into my license. Endless stream of problems with it - all of which went away when I changed to Kaspersky. I had AVG before then and also had no issues with it.
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The inverse was true for me. I used Kaspersky 2013, and it was excellent. After upgrading to 2014, it was a nightmare. It caused the weirdest issues like inverting my Caps Lock function on my keyboard. When it started to randomly crash, leaving me totally unprotected, I had no choice but to cancel my subscription and find alternatives.

Moved to Bitdefender, and it's been okay, not brilliant, but a million times better than KIS2014 was for me at least. Maybe 2015 is better but 2014 was hell for me.
 
It's close between eset and kaspersky.

I think the performance and demand on system resources, eset just edges past kaspersky.

Happily eset since 2004 :)
 
The only single anti-virus program that really does its job and is lightweight, not affecting your pc performance, is Eset. All other anti-virus programs are ****! I do not believe in any single one of them and never will.
 
Eset smart security all the way. Hardly notice it at all and does its job perfectly.
 
I prefer BitDefender because of it's extensive customization options and it had minimal annoying alert boxes (that you can set). However it does use quite slot of RAM, but it definitely gets rid of infections that most other packages cant.

Otherwise I'd prefer Avast Free AntiVirus 2015.

In most cases both these products rank atleast in the top 5 list in various AntiVirus Rankings with BitDefender bring at #1 majority lf the time.

BitDefender is so good it's very hard finding serials and cracks for it though.
 
Two I can recommend with full honesty.


Eset ( use it at the office very elegant for monitoring the whole office network from the eset server)

And then my personal favorie Kaspersky, I use this at home
 
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