Which Antivirus do you use?

[Redtiger]

Hi All,

Im using Bitdefender antivirus since about 4 years now, my licence is due to expire in 30 days, I have an 1 year licence of kaspersky which i received with my new MoBo, didn't activate it yet but i know it's Kaspersky Antivirus (No firewall included etc), plus it's the 2013 edition and it's not eligible for the free upgrade to KA 2014.

 

Using Kaspersky will force me to go with a free firewall (Like Zone Alarm) which is not that good (At least that's what i heard) and buying a firewall makes no sense as being an old Bitdefender Customer i have discounts with their Bitdefender suite (I can buy a licence = 1 year, 3 computers for about 30e).

 

Before i go out spending any money I would like to know which antivirus do you folks use and find the best for your use (Price/Quality)?

 

 

 

 

 

[helping]

i haven't used any since like 2008

I keep malwarebytes around for on demand scanning.

[tS_kStin]

Avast(free) and Common scene. 

[Bluethulhu]

Avast free + MalwareBytes + Spybot 2

 

Avast is great if there's a malicious .exe trying to run, Malwarebytes is good for just finding general trojans, PuPs, etc, and Spybot is good for getting rid of tracking cookies and other crapware.

[Real_nimr0d_3]

nothing

[antoainb]

Avast+Malwarebytes and the essential one, COMMON SENSE. Also Windows has a firewall, I've never used anything else and I've never had any problems.

[Mixzzz]

Kaspersky pure 3.0 with trial resetter

[Ciccioo]

microsoft security essentials and windows firewall are

- free

- completely not invasive

- lightweight

- if you're not stupid enough to welcome viruses and doubleclick ALL the executables, they will protect you just fine

[Analog]

AVG AntiVirus 2014 (Paid edition) + Malwarebytes Pro  

[Redtiger]

Avast free + MalwareBytes + Spybot 2

 

Avast is great if there's a malicious .exe trying to run, Malwarebytes is good for just finding general trojans, PuPs, etc, and Spybot is good for getting rid of tracking cookies and other crapware.

Thanks! That sounds just right! I will go with this trio

[Hikaru12]

MalwareBytes Pro.

[MatheusSanzo]

 

[Starglider]

Nortons Internet Security for about 4 years or more - It's light and has intelligent system processing to help keep things speedy.

 

I felt like a change this year so I bought and installed Comodo, mostly because it boasted a kick ass firewall. I envisioned symantec firewall from back in the old days which was just awesome till norton bought it out but the truth of the matter is Comodo is good but a royal pain the ass... Right at this very moment it's desktop widget is sitting on my 2nd screen in orange stating "needs attention". This is due to yet another failed virus signature update failure (this happens a lot). The first time it happened I emailed customer support whom got me to install a tool which they then started remoting my computer with (hmmmm). From what I observed from the remotee was:

 

1. try install definitions - fail

2. restart machine (auto reconnect to this remote session - hmmm :\ ) and try install again - fail

3. find definitions installation location, download them manually and place in directory and try an update again - fail

4. try delete all definitions and run update - fail

5. boot into safe mode, delete definitions and run update - success

 

The other huge issue with Comodo is that it can affect / change the files you install on your computer. I testing software for the leap motion controller and programming an app of my own only to find a win32 error. I spent nearly a week with dev teams from the leapmotion team only to find out in the end it was Comodo!

 

Other things I hate about comodo:

1. Opening it's main window and making updates to sub sections is very slow. Huge pause after save or close button presses

2. Firewall, how hard is it to give a simple list of all blocked, allowed applications and dll's that are searchable or state can be altered nice and simple? Wander wander, sift sift, which profile am I using? Oh hang on which section was that in again? 

 

Moral of the story, I shouldn't have moved away from Norton Internet Security.

 

 

And for those of you whom go with free software only I would do the following:

1. Zone Alarm

2. MalwareBytes (install, scan, fix and remove only when needed)

3. CCleaner

4. SpyBot

 

I used to use AVG free but I've seen it let so many things through but MalwareBytes picks them up and fixes them also, so I don't bother with AVG anymore.

[Raphael_123]

I use Norton because my ISP provides it for free. 

[fsck_you]

Common Sense 2015

[Opcode]

I don't typically use one, I run Malwarebytes Pro in the background just to make sure.

[mtbdude641]

i would use malwarebytes paid, i purchased it here recently, its best one out there in my opinion. 

[Redtiger]

microsoft security essentials and windows firewall are

- free

- completely not invasive

- lightweight

- if you're not stupid enough to welcome viruses and doubleclick ALL the executables, they will protect you just fine

It's not always stupidity you know, sometimes you may receive something from a friend with IT knowladge, the thing may have a nice suprise .. talking from personal experiance. And sometimes I take stuff from privat sites like filelist.ro ; it's always good to have some extra protection.

[Redtiger]

Nortons Internet Security for about 4 years or more - It's light and has intelligent system processing to help keep things speedy.

 

I felt like a change this year so I bought and installed Comodo, mostly because it boasted a kick ass firewall. I envisioned symantec firewall from back in the old days which was just awesome till norton bought it out but the truth of the matter is Comodo is good but a royal pain the ass... Right at this very moment it's desktop widget is sitting on my 2nd screen in orange stating "needs attention". This is due to yet another failed virus signature update failure (this happens a lot). The first time it happened I emailed customer support whom got me to install a tool which they then started remoting my computer with (hmmmm). From what I observed from the remotee was:

 

1. try install definitions - fail

2. restart machine (auto reconnect to this remote session - hmmm :\ ) and try install again - fail

3. find definitions installation location, download them manually and place in directory and try an update again - fail

4. try delete all definitions and run update - fail

5. boot into safe mode, delete definitions and run update - success

 

The other huge issue with Comodo is that it can affect / change the files you install on your computer. I testing software for the leap motion controller and programming an app of my own only to find a win32 error. I spent nearly a week with dev teams from the leapmotion team only to find out in the end it was Comodo!

 

Other things I hate about comodo:

1. Opening it's main window and making updates to sub sections is very slow. Huge pause after save or close button presses

2. Firewall, how hard is it to give a simple list of all blocked, allowed applications and dll's that are searchable or state can be altered nice and simple? Wander wander, sift sift, which profile am I using? Oh hang on which section was that in again? 

 

Moral of the story, I shouldn't have moved away from Norton Internet Security.

 

 

And for those of you whom go with free software only I would do the following:

1. Zone Alarm

2. MalwareBytes (install, scan, fix and remove only when needed)

3. CCleaner

4. SpyBot

 

I used to use AVG free but I've seen it let so many things through but MalwareBytes picks them up and fixes them also, so I don't bother with AVG anymore.

Had some bad experiances with Comodo myself, after i got rid of it I couldn't install anything else as Bitdefender & Kaspersky were telling me to remove Comodo which was removed. Used filesearch and Revo Uninstall to get rid of all the scraps.

You are making me think of going farther with BitDefender

As you said, simple. This i want connected to the internet, this not. Short instructions and away we go...

[ThyFeared]

Symantec is doing pretty good so far

[Ciccioo]

It's not always stupidity you know, sometimes you may receive something from a friend with IT knowladge, the thing may have a nice suprise .. talking from personal experiance. And sometimes I take stuff from privat sites like filelist.ro ; it's always good to have some extra protection.

that's the reason for security essentials

[Coconut Money Affiliates]

i haven't used any since like 2008

I keep malwarebytes around for on demand scanning.

I so the exact same

[DaRk0]

Avast free paired with Malwarebytes Pro. I may try Ad-aware free.

[xena990]

Comodo + malwarebytes.

[malaki]

I run Norton 360

 

When I got my laptop for X-mas my dad installed Avast free

 

2 weeks later Avast let in a virus

instantly switched back to Norton

 

I've also gone through 2 Trojan Horses whenever I got rid of Norton so yeah...