The best Anti-Virus in the market

[Chennaiyen]

Looking for a good anti-virus for my new PC with 8700k. Something with reliable security and does not hamper the system performance. 

Been using the free anti-virus in the old machine. 

[JoostinOnline]

The one built into Windows 10 is actually pretty good, but I consider the best balance to performance is avast.

[Chennaiyen]

1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

The one built into Windows 10 is actually pretty good, but I consider the best balance to performance is avast.

@JoostinOnline, using Avast in the old PC. One thing I noticed is that when I open the Anti-virus control panel it always shows as Turn on protection or turn on ..

[genexis_x]

Bitdefender Internet Security (you need to pay for it)

[Chennaiyen]

15 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Bitdefender Internet Security (you need to pay for it)

@ZM Fong, Thats in my list along with MCAfee & Norton. 

[DarkEnergy]

Bit Defender or Russian Intelligence gathering (Kaspersky). Probably the best two paid anti viruses. As for free, they're all pretty crap. Avast is alright if you uncheck half of what it installs with by default. I'm currently trying Bit Defender free version. Free malwarebytes is always a must. 

[dalekphalm]

17 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

Bitdefender Internet Security (you need to pay for it)

Second this

1 minute ago, Chennaiyen said:

@ZM Fong, Thats in my list along with MCAfee & Norton. 

Those are swear words on this forum

 

McAfee has a pretty bad reputation. Norton does too, although admittedly, their product is not the same piece of crap from the 90's - it's a lot better these days.

 

I'd recommend Bit Defender. I'd normally recommend Kaspersky - but it depends on whether you trust them anymore (there are accusations that they allow the Russian government access to their info) - so it's up to you to decide whether you believe the accusations or not.

[kb5zue]

For the time being, stay away from Kazpersky.  They are on the DoJ's shitz list right now.

[Chennaiyen]

1 minute ago, dalekphalm said:

Second this

Those are swear words on this forum

 

McAfee has a pretty bad reputation. Norton does too, although admittedly, their product is not the same piece of crap from the 90's - it's a lot better these days.

 

I'd recommend Bit Defender. I'd normally recommend Kaspersky - but it depends on whether you trust them anymore (there are accusations that they allow the Russian government access to their info) - so it's up to you to decide whether you believe the accusations or not.

@dalekphalm, Thats the reason I did not consider Kaspersky. Looks like Bit defender has a good number of trusted users. 

[dalekphalm]

10 minutes ago, Chennaiyen said:

@dalekphalm, Thats the reason I did not consider Kaspersky. Looks like Bit defender has a good number of trusted users. 

We use the Enterprise version at work (just switched to it back in October... ironically, we switched from Kaspersky) and so far it works great. Granted, that's the Enterprise version, but the consumer version is also a good product.