Virus Scanners

[bekaak]

Hello everyone,

 

I use Microsoft security essentials for virus scanning, i'm really annoyed about how long it takes to scan my system (1 ssd 250gb 1hdd 1tb).

 

What do you guys use and do you have scanning problems too?

 

greetz

[terrytek]

I only use Avast. Nothing else.

[connorpiper]

I use Malwarebytes for scanning and Defender for system. Antivirus is for people who don't know what they are doing (And click the bait).

[Darkman]

I have a free version of AVG and a full (premium) version of MalwareBytes.

Someone may have been nice enough to give me a lifetime key for MalwareBytes.

[Thermite]

Avast and malwarebytes.org is the best in my opinion. Both are about the same speed.

[Darkman]

Hello everyone,

 

I use Microsoft security essentials for virus scanning, i'm really annoyed about how long it takes to scan my system (1 ssd 250gb 1hdd 1tb).

 

What do you guys use and do you have scanning problems too?

 

greetz

Oh, follow your topics so we don't need to quote your first post, and instead when someone posts on it, you get a notification. Thanks.

[bekaak]

Oh, follow your topics so we don't need to quote your first post, and instead when someone posts on it, you get a notification. Thanks.

Thnx! hahah i'm pretty new here so didn't know i could do that! ;p

 

And thank you  everyone who responded, gonna see if i have some money for a non free virus scanner to check out ;p

[Seldszar]

These days I find the antispywares are more useful than any antivirus. You need a lot of them though because when it happens I rarely can get all of them with only malwarebytes. Being careful is realy the best safety now imo.

 

I still have Microsoft security essentials ... because why not.

[Darkman]

Thnx! hahah i'm pretty new here so didn't know i could do that! ;p

 

And thank you  everyone who responded, gonna see if i have some money for a non free virus scanner to check out ;p

Your welcome. MalwareBytes and AVG both have free versions. Also, I recommend reading the CoC for this forum right Here.

[bekaak]

Hahaha, true. Most of the time i just try to be safe. But you never know ;p

I had my computer from 2007 killed from a trojan and since then i'm super careful...

[Kherm]

i use MS Defender built in with Windows 8, and i just copied a keygen from my flash drive to my hard drive, and as soon as it was finished, i got a notification and it removed it 

[bekaak]

Your welcome. MalwareBytes and AVG both have free versions. Also, I recommend reading the CoC for this forum right Here.

Thnx! And i will! This community is amazing, people are so nice!

[WinNut]

Thnx! And i will! This community is amazing, people are so nice!

We are extremely friendly (with 1 or 2 exceptions)

I use AVG myself, it's really worth it.

[emachado99]

I use Malware Bytes and Kaspersky

[bekaak]

I now use MalwareBytes  and MSE and it's great! i tried AVG but wasn't so fond of it. Well, thank you all!

[WillFromGA]

Avast and malwarebytes.org is the best in my opinion. Both are about the same speed.

Same goes for me.

[Sankster]

Defender/MSE cause I'm on windows 10. 

Not had any problems with anything yet

[Opcode]

Depending on how much content you have (e.g. if you have 800 GB of movies, music, software, etc) it's going to take any scanner a while to sift through that much data.

 

If you're doing manual scans I would recommend doing it with Malwarebytes Free edition. You can run Avira, Avast, AVG, or whatever you want in the background for real-time protection.