Avira interent suite VS Comodo internet suite

I've been using Avira's suite for about a year now without any issues, but I just felt the need to switch to something else since I like a change every now and then.

At the moment I'm leading more towards CIS because of their great firewall and their sandbox, which since I'm already using sandboxie its one less program to have and the fact that it seems to be a bit more lightweight than avira

The thing that concerns me the most is their antivirus. I cant really find many comparisons about comodo's antivirus around.

I did some manual tests on my own on a VM and so far so good, every threat seems to be detected.

So, anyone out there that had the time to test both products and found some flaws ? On CIS mostly since thats the product I'm considering.

Thanks in advance.

 

Not even the people who use the suite care about the AV, mostly because it's not the key protection of the suite. It's a half-useful last resort. CIS includes Defense+, which, if configured properly, will do far more for you than the AV will. Defense+ will nag the hell out of you and make you think you broke your system for a good week or so, but using it with the sandbox and the memory firewall will prevent malicious code from ever executing in the first place.

 

From what I've noticed the last few days I've been playing it. It does prevent malware etc from running, but it doesn't actually cleans them (since the antivirus might not find some of them. So they are still in your pc, blocked so they cant run, but still there

Since most of the posts around regarding their AV is like 2+ years old I was hopping that it would have reached an acceptable level by now, sadly doesn't seems like the case.

Although the prevention side sounds good, I wouldn't really like the idea of preventing everything yet keeping it on the system if its not detected as harmful by the antivirus. If I wanted something like that I could use sandboxie to run everything in there

 

Then run a free scanner on your computer and keep it clean. The CIS way of thinking is that it should never have been possible to infect in the first place, as opposed to cleaning up after the user's mess. Removing pre-existing infections is unimportant. Personally, I play by the same philosophy. An AV is (in my opinion) is just a last resort once everything else has failed. They will generally prevent little to nothing from actually infecting you, even if running active scans, unless they've integrated code execution protections (many but not all do).

If you want a competent malware remover check out malwarebytes. All AV play second fiddle to MBAM for malware removal.

 

You won't really get around that unless it's quarantined by an av or malware scanner. It's possible to delete each malicious file or registry entry manually but much easier to dl and install a ~10mb scanner. I'll also recommend keeping the free version of Malwarebytes around for detection if you think something my be wrong and removal.

Avira's firewall isn't known for being as good as Comodo but Comodo's AV will not place near Avira or Avast. May be a good idea to forget the IS altogether, save some money and just an on demand scanner and a good firewall.