some people say that mcafee is the best, and then a guy at a store said windows live one care is best with windows vista, and then a guy at another store said a program called nod32 is the best there is.
the reviews for nod32 are amazing so nod32 seems to be the best but idk for sure, does anybody know of anything different? or better?
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Panda Antivirus+Firewall is very good!
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McAfee? HELL NO.
IMO:
Free -> Avira AntiVir
Pay -> Kaspersky AntiVirus
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ok and i was searching around and found shield deluxe is pretty good too, anybody know anything about that?
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Just take Avira. It's free and does everything you need.
It has higher detection rates than AVG and Avast. -
Kaspersky or NOD32.
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AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's
In order, the biggest bang for the buck (free or cost) in home computing protection:
- Common Sense
- Properly Configured Router
- Software FireWall with Outbound Protection
- Properly Configured Browser and eMail Clients (e.g.: FireFox with NoScript)
- Anti Virus/SpyWare
If you really want to be safe, look at sandboxing and return/refresh state processes. I find them both to be overkill in my current usage. -
The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso
I used to use Mcafee and I thought it was ok, fairly easy to use, but slowed down the machine a lot. Then a couple of years ago they really screwed it up and I hated it and switched to Norton. Norton is an absolute piece of crap. I have had serious errors with it on the 3 machines I put it on. The DAT files don't download properly. There are issues with connecting to Symantec's servers to get the DAT file etc. I had a lot of problems getting Norton to work on my laptop and had no Virus protection. So in a fit of desperation I downloaded Avria and I love it. It seems to work great, no problems and stays out of my way. Can't compare its DAT files to that of the big companies but so far I don't think I have any problems/viruses
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AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's
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AKA, I would add a currently-supported operating system with all security updates installed. And that's somewhere above #5 too.
Other than that, I pretty much agree with your list, although as you mention the exact order of things is somewhat debatable.
IMO one of the dangers of security software is complacency. Some people install a couple antivirus and antispyware programs and then common sense goes straight out the window. -
AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's
I read an article this week that claimed some large percentage of home computer users have never updated their browser. The audience here at NBR is the antithesis of complacency; leading edge-early adopters mostly. I still see those Windows 98 and Windows 2000 users, probably running IE4 or IE5 here and there on forums. And way too many Windows XP users and users still running IE6 or IE7, too. I suppose they may be complacent, but more likely they subscribe to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy, which, more correctly stated is "if it is really broken, you cannot fix it". Others only update when they get a new computer.
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You're just gonna have to try some of the well known ones and decide for yourself... it's a per-user thing!
Otherwise, this can help.
what antivirus system is the best?
Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by k0rn56, Jul 21, 2008.