bitdefender vs norton vs kaspersky

[farhanorakzai]

i have a year left on my bitdefender total security 2015, and my motherboard came with kaspersky. and my uncle keeps telling me that norton is the best anti virus. should i keep bitdefender, download kaspersky, or buy norton? 

[Statik]

Norton can fuck off.

 

It works, but it's super intrusive, expensive, and if you don't have it activated, it's practically a virus itself.

 

EDIT: I feel norton is the kind of antivirus that you need if you're not techsavy and have no idea what you're doing. I currently just have CC cleaner, and malwarebytes. But I'm thinking about grabbing avast or something soon as I'm such a high roller

[Totallycasual]

I do just fine with MSE and safe browsing practices

[PetiteBob]

go commando like me no anti virus

[Akolyte]

Not Norton.  I personally use no antivirus but I'm a security researcher, so I don't really need one, if I had one, what I'm messing with would bypass it anyway. 

 

Kaspersky definitley.  Bitdefender is expensive and heavy, not to mention its not great at preventing zero day exploits.  Norton is just an overall bad antivirus, people say its okay, but thats "okay" a paid antivirus should be "great" or aweful.  No antivirus should be "okay" or it should be kicked out.   

 

Kaspersky contains tons of virtualization technology and some EMET features built in to prevent exploitation, its got a sandbox, a program restriction program, behavior blocker, great detection, parental controls, pretty good firewall, vulnerbility scanner..

 

Those are only SOME of the features. 

[Alibaladin]

Kaspersky or Mcafee.

 

Norton slow your computer.

Bitdefender defends you but eats your money if you don't watch your credit card bills.

[KamiKatze]

Kaspersky has served me well over the past few years. But then again my other ant-virus called "common sense" blocked most of the stuff already.

 

I like Kaspersky because it's not heavy on the system performance. It's very light and subtle but warns you what you drive towards a brick wall at 100 kph.

[Guest]

• Mcafee runs like shit
• AVG pops into everything
• Norton is similar to AVG in that it interupts everything
• Kaspersky is okay, still not great
• Webroot is getting a lot better than it used to be and it barely intrudes at all. It's also great for non tech savy users as it can be locked and not modified by an inexperienced user plus is the best defender against drive encryption viruses- I have seen on customers PC's AVG, Kaspersky and Norton especially fail miserably against encryptors. Webroot has so far in my experience had a 100% strike rate against them. http://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/trials 

[Alibaladin]

Anyone tried ESET?

[Blebekblebek]

I'm using ClamAV http://www.clamav.net/index.html

it was never really made for commercial. and never really get attention because mainly for linux/bsd, but they have release a windows version

MSE is good but it always active OS firewall even after I disable it from registry, it turns out MSE need firewall on when updating.

 

I can't find anything better than those 2

 

todays FREE AV is common for POP UP ADS and malware, it's ridicilous

[Akolyte]

 

• Mcafee runs like shit
• AVG pops into everything
• Norton is similar to AVG in that it interupts everything
• Kaspersky is okay, still not great
• Webroot is getting a lot better than it used to be and it barely intrudes at all. It's also great for non tech savy users as it can be locked and not modified by an inexperienced user plus is the best defender against drive encryption viruses- I have seen on customers PC's AVG, Kaspersky and Norton especially fail miserably against encryptors. Webroot has so far in my experience had a 100% strike rate against them. http://www.webroot.com/us/en/home/products/trials 

 

I've had the opposite experience with webroot.  But, I haven't tried it in a year or so. 

 

Kaspersky has a new feature which actively blocks encryptors.  AVG (I'm ashamed to say) sucks at blocking encryptors and Norton is just flat out Average, Average is not an option for an antivirus you pay money for to protect you from everything.

[UltraNeonGaming]

I stopped using anti-viruses and anti-malware stuff a long time back, I just use windows defender with the common sense plugin (Not downloading illegal torrents 24/7).

It's free and works great!

[JaSoN_XzIoN]

i have a year left on my bitdefender total security 2015, and my motherboard came with kaspersky. and my uncle keeps telling me that norton is the best anti virus. should i keep bitdefender, download kaspersky, or buy norton?

I've been using Kaspersky for the past couple of years, and really can recommend it. But bitdefender is also pretty good. If your Kaspersky license isn't activated yet use bitdefender until it runs out and then install Kaspersky

[shacaw]

ESET Smart Security is pretty tits, i believe he's even better than Kaspersky.

[vembutech]

Go for Kaspersky.. 

[Midnight]

lol, just use MSE. Norton is a POS.

 

If you want be really secure, use a VM, run Linux, and use private browsing.