Most Effective Anti Virus

[jlct021]

As a tech my machine is constantly being exposed to threats of all kinds.

Of all the protection available would be great to hear which ones (in your experience) are the most effective.

Thanks

 

[Nokkie]

Nod Anti-virus seems to be the best program at the moment especially for businesses.
Personally I use AVG.

 

[LazyLion]

For Prevention... see here... http://av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report23.pdf

For Removal.... see here... http://av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/removal/avc_removal_2009.pdf

In short... (according to these summaries)

the best anti-virus programs for total prevention are G-Data, Symantec, Avast, F-Secure, BitDefender, eScan, and NOD32.

and the best anti-virus programs for virus removal are eScan, Symantec and Microsoft (MSE)

 

[Soljaah]

I've used bitdefender now for a year and never had a virus. Before I made the move I had many

 

[Drake2007]

I find MSE very good at cleaning infected files, not just detecting.

Have noticed alot of free AV do the normal quarantine or delete which is quite useless in that they end up breaking programs or worse the OS.

 

[marine1]

Kaspersky rocks

 

[Kuga]

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=201778

 

[Nokkie]

I've used bitdefender now for a year and never had a virus. Before I made the move I had many

I had a bad experience with bid defender.. Bought it at incredible connection and I always seemed to get viruses. So I uninstalled it and got AVG Never had a problem since then. Also never formated my pc in 3 years.

it still runs fine. And I regularly defrag and tweak the system it helps a lot, performance wise.

 

[catruter]

use AVG pro, so far so good, had no viruses so far

 

[|tera|]

I recommend Kaspersky as antivirus/antimalware/real time protection.

If you are a tech, first thing to disable is autorun on all drives, including USB. Never double click a flash drive, right click and explore or run drive letter: start, run.

Then you need the following:
A-squared Free
Malwarebytes Antimalware
Spybot S&D
Superantispyware
Dr. Web Cureit (redownload when needed)

Anti Rootkit:
TrendMicro
Sophos
McAfee
F-Secure
Kaspersky (will be released soon)

That's part of my arsenal, mostly good common sense is the best.

 

[LazyLion]

I recommend Kaspersky as antivirus/antimalware/real time protection.

If you are a tech, first thing to disable is autorun on all drives, including USB. Never double click a flash drive, right click and explore or run drive letter: start, run.

Then you need the following:
A-squared Free
Malwarebytes Antimalware
Spybot S&D
Superantispyware
Dr. Web Cureit (redownload when needed)

Anti Rootkit:
TrendMicro
Sophos
McAfee
F-Secure
Kaspersky (will be released soon)

That's part of my arsenal, mostly good common sense is the best.

Tera! I hope you don't have all of those installed at the same time!

 

[|tera|]

Tera! I hope you don't have all of those installed at the same time!

Only application that is realtime is Kaspersky. The rest are on demand and don't cause any conflicts to the system. I've used and continue to use those apps on a daily basis and I have yet to run into a slow down/lock up.

The likes of malwarebytes etc. (free) do not offer any resident protection and is not a true antivirus, but a general antimalware (viruses, spyware) remover.

I would add most free online virus scanners to that list too(eset, housecall etc.), but generally my list as current does the duty.

 

[czc]

I would add KeyScrambler an anti-keylogging software to that list. Not an AV but great if you do have a keylogger that the AV missed.

http://www.qfxsoftware.com/

 

[spider69]

Just bought Bitdefender today. Encountered the first problem - try to play a game and it gets blocked - says a trojan is the problem. Have to switch av off to play that game.... Not impressed.

 

[|tera|]

Just bought Bitdefender today. Encountered the first problem - try to play a game and it gets blocked - says a trojan is the problem. Have to switch av off to play that game.... Not impressed.

First of many problems, I Bitdefender...

 

[MyWorld]

Of all the protection available would be great to hear which ones (in your experience) are the most effective.

Linux

Sorry I just had to.

 

[Grep]

Odd how this topic crops up every month or so. Anyways I always run into the same issue of which is best. Its all crap IMO because there is nothing that fixes everything, there just isnt. So my closest to second will be Symantec's Endpoint for SB. Its now on ver 12 and works amazingly well. Avast! is also bluddy brilliant because it scans everything before the system boots but having just been through yet another major virus outbreak with a client running Trend, I must say, Symantec is finally the way to go.

Please dont install Norton because you will be sorry. Make sure its SEP.

 

[MyWorld]

Speaking of which, I have just got myself a sweet little Acer netbook and it comes pre-installed with WinXP and lo and behold, McAfee suite for 60 days.

Is McAfee any good? It has been a while since I had to meddle with anti-virus applications.

 

[Grep]

Was good .... then it died, stay away.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

"anti-virus is like religion, we all have our own"

Well an anti-virus is only as good as the end user, regardless of brand. While we all have a favourites, if we do not keep it up to date and running in optimal mode, then it will fail.

I've tried them all and I've found faults in all of them. Eventually decided to really give a an anti-virus a fair chance by setting the recommended settings, keeping it up to date and also doing security updates on the OS, it worked without fail.