What is a good anti virsu program to use?

[yoshiii]

Hello

 

I have Malwarebytes and CC Cleaner, what is a good anti virus software?

[Textosterone]

Kaspersky if u have the dough. Windows defender is OK.

[manikyath]

your brain.

 

no antivirus can stop you from doing stupid things.

[daniellearmouth]

inb4 common sense

 

But yeah, whilst an antivirus will give you a safety net for if something goes awry, you could use a program like Kaspersky or F-Secure.

But as we all know...it never hurts to understand what you're doing on the internet.

[dexd_fish69]

Norton works very well for me!

[knibbs1325]

i personally use avast, its free to use and to register for a year you just put in a fake email like email@email.com or something like that, it also doesnt use that much resources as compared to kaspersky or the similar

[yoshiii]

Norton works very well for me!

 

Norton doesn't cause any problems?

[Delicieuxz]

Norton doesn't cause any problems?

 

 

It does for viruses.

[flibberdipper]

I've been using Avast running alongside MalwareBytes on a few computers (mom's, stepdad's, and grandma's), and they haven't managed to get a virus.

[yoshiii]

Thanks everyone

[manikyath]

as a person who has used norton for an extended amount of time, and has done some testing on it, heres my take on norton:

 

its mindblowingly safe. norton is that overly attached girlfriend that'll NEVER let anything happen to you, sadly having some false positives here and there, together with being a tad on the resource intensive side. (about 30% system performance...)

[Kiyuubi]

I think we really need a sticky on this, or recommend software in general.  I feel like this question is asked too much.  This thread should be a sticky, but of course, should be audited for errors and such beforehand..

 

That aside:

 

For free AV you should either get Avira or Bitdefender.  Bitdefender is more lightweight, but it doesn't give you many options in terms of control or how it works.

 

If you want a paid one then either Bitdefender or Kaspersky.  I would probably go with Kaspersky just for the fact that their team has found a lot of security issues in the past.  You can also check out AVTEST, a third-party company that rates AVs.  (Bitdefender and Kaspersky are the top 2)

 

Do not get Avast!, as it is complete shit.  Go to this link to find out why.

 

You will also want to scan your computer weekly, or whatever amount of time you are comfortable with,  with Malwarebytes.  Just to be clear, Malwarebytes is NOT an AV, nor should it be used like one.  So do not run it along side your AV, only use it is a scanner.  Make sure to not accept the trial it offers, and to disable it on startup.

[dexd_fish69]

Norton doesn't cause any problems?

 

Norton 360 works very well and can also be used on mobile devices. It has not caused me any problems. However if you are using Windows 7 and earlier I would recommend AVG.