What is the best antivirus for Windows?

Post by **Infinitiguy19** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:16 pm

I would like your suggestions for the best antivirus that is:

Light on memory and CPU

Scans as fast as possible

Best detection possible

And what ever else you guys think makes it the best.

I have tried AVAST, AVG and NOD

AVAST is great but to slow in scanning

AVG is slow and uses up some resources too.

NOD actually missed a virus which killed my computer.

Currently I am running no antivirus and I feel OK so far, except for the home page change.

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:17 pm

Avira smokes them all

Post by **Lou Guido** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:44 pm

The "best" paid is either Kaspersky or Nod32

The best free is avast! home edition

Here is the latest comparative from av-comparativeshttp://www.av-comparatives.org...tests

Post by **puds682** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:15 am

I like avg or norton if you have the money

Post by **szh** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:41 am

Lou Guido wrote:Here is the latest comparative from av-comparativeshttp://www.av-comparatives.org...tests

Good information there. Thanks much!

Z

Post by **Loki** » Sat May 02, 2009 6:44 pm

AVG has always worked perfect for me. Been a couple times that it caught and contained a trojan that hopped on my computer.

Post by **hitbychance** » Sun May 03, 2009 11:22 am

nod 32 for anti virus and zone alarm for firewall, don't even notice they are there

Post by **joe603** » Mon May 04, 2009 10:46 am

AVG for me!

Post by **WOLFANATOR13** » Mon May 04, 2009 1:08 pm

Avira is light on memory and cpu usage, scans faster than avg side by side on my machine right now. and they both seem to detect the same s*** when i introduce problems.

Post by **RCA** » Fri May 08, 2009 5:39 pm

Wow, I must be left out of the loop.

I use Norton 360 and I use my POS 1.3ghz Celeron while it does a full PC/External HDD scan.

Norton or

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Sat May 09, 2009 5:43 am

Norton 360 is one of the most resource intensive antivirus applications ever!!!

Switch to Norton internet security 2009

Post by **Kalypso** » Sat May 09, 2009 6:02 am

use programs that scan for ad-aware in conjuction with anti virus software, and use multiple ones, some viruses cater themselves to specific anti virus programs.

My symantec anti-virus and ad-aware se have both been attacked by tailor made viruses.

so i mix it up.

Post by **RCA** » Sun May 10, 2009 2:43 pm

PoorManQ45 wrote:Norton 360 is one of the most resource intensive antivirus applications ever!!!

Switch to Norton internet security 2009

REALLLY!WTF

I have a 1.8 ghz Celeron and my PC barely slows down durring full PC scans. I don't understand how this is possible mean while some NICOnauts are using PCs 100xtimes stronger then my laptop

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Sun May 10, 2009 7:00 pm

you're living in an alternate universe. That's the only explaination

Post by **RCA** » Sun May 10, 2009 9:28 pm

PoorManQ45 wrote:you're living in an alternate universe. That's the only explaination

Wow the other day it did a Virus/Spyware scan, backed up my HDD and "Optimized My Pc" (Cleaned Temp Internet files, Temp Windows Files and internet history and defragmenting) with little interruption.But I did notice a Priority setting. It was set to low so it took about 5hrs for the entire process.

Alternate universe FTW

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:12 am

Set it to medium priority and report back.

Myself and online reviewers have found it to be a resource hog in it's default implementation.

Post by **WOLFANATOR13** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:42 am

Avira FTW! AVG 2nd Best In the Free Category! and paying for both "pro" versions take them over the top!

Post by **RCA** » Tue May 12, 2009 4:00 pm

PoorManQ45 wrote:Set it to medium priority and report back.

Myself and online reviewers have found it to be a resource hog in it's default implementation.

I am doing just that...

I am running:Norton 360 PC Scan (Comprehensive w/ High Priority)Google Chrome x6 (w/ photos)VLC PlayerLimeWire (no music)BitTorrent (4x uploads)MS Word

And the only thing I can notice are longer then expected copy/paste times on Word. And random skipped frames on my movie player which happend quickly and not frequently.

Try giving Norton a shot...This way I don't think I am nuts...

Sorry for the smalll picture.

PC Specs:Dell Note Book Insprion 6000Intel Celeron M - 1.3GHz1.99 GBs of ramSigmaTel C-Major Audio (sound card?)33.5 GB HDD
Modified by rcabrita at 11:50 AM 5/13/2009

Post by **Looneybomber** » Fri May 15, 2009 11:17 am

I used to have Norton 2006. When it expired I uninstalled it and installed AVG free. I went from using 239k system resources upon fresh restart to 349k with AVG. Now, with avg 8.5, Adaware, and other updated software, I'm at 430k upon fresh restart.

Right now even with AVG 8.5, ad-aware, and malware, I am fighting the AV 2009 virus nearly every day. It keeps eating/infecting more and more stuff even though I use all three scanners daily...so those don't rank very high on my satisfaction level.

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Fri May 15, 2009 1:14 pm

Looneybomber wrote:Right now even with AVG 8.5, ad-aware, and malware, I am fighting the AV 2009 virus nearly every day. It keeps eating/infecting more and more stuff even though I use all three scanners daily...so those don't rank very high on my satisfaction level.

Run malwarebytes.

You only need to do a quick scan. Let it remove everything that it finds. That should resolve your issue permanently, or atleast untill you visit those naughty sites again...

Post by **Looneybomber** » Fri May 15, 2009 5:57 pm

PoorManQ45 wrote:
Run malwarebytes.

You only need to do a quick scan. Let it remove everything that it finds. That should resolve your issue permanently, or atleast untill you visit those naughty sites again...

I run Malwarebytes daily. By naughty sights do you mean mininova.org? That's what I had open the first time I got AV2009 and I get virus alerts all the time when I have that site open. It's also happend while on southwest airlines, google, avsforum, and various other "clean" sites.

Speaking of Malwarebytes, I'm going to run it again since I've spent a few hours on the internet.

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Fri May 15, 2009 6:08 pm

Are you updating it too?

Try ccleaner to clean up any temporary files that those popups may be hiding in.

Post by **Looneybomber** » Sat May 16, 2009 6:43 am

PoorManQ45 wrote:Are you updating it too?

Try ccleaner to clean up any temporary files that those popups may be hiding in.

Yup, I update all three (AVG, Ad-Aware, MalBytes) before scanning. It's been 4 or 5 days now since I've had a virus found.

A lot of times, while scanning with MalBytes, AVG will pop up detected viruses in weird files when Malbytes scans it.

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Sat May 16, 2009 12:58 pm

Try using avira instead AVG. It gives an advertisement every once in awhile, but i've found it to work extremely wel.

Note, AVG doesnt have a rootkit scanner in the free version

Post by **Looneybomber** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:08 am

Hmm. If I get another virus detected, I'll dump avg and try avira.

Post by **PoorManQ45** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:40 am

I'd just dump it to;0 try something new. It's not like you pay for them

Post by **hitbychance** » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:27 pm

getting off the p0rn?

jk jk nod 32 is decent

Post by **#1 Sailor Scout** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:38 am

Kaspersky FTW

I've used both Norton & McAfee. Both missed a virus which killed my laptop. I've been running Kaspersky for about a year now & I haven't had any problems.

Also, look into Windows Defender & the latest version of Spybot. With those 3 programs together, it may slow down a bit, but your PC will pretty much be invincible.

Post by **drawfs7** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:30 am

You should try Cyberdefender. You can download the free scanner off of their website. The full version is also available and includes round the clock technical assistance. It's awesome!

Post by **Syndicatet3k** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:46 am

in my opinion norton sucks ... no really its sucks your resources down to nothing.... i use

adaware-cleanings cookies and crap

malwarebytes-malware and some Trojans etc

AVG- general virus protection

Blackice- incoming and outgoing security

Ive making a carputer and stressing about fast boot times and resources you want your computer to run... use these not norton or mcrappy.

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