So what's the best antivirus to download? (3 Viewers)

[Rage_Quitter]

I like Kaspersky
McAfee is good
as is Trend Micro

norton sucks.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 all the way. :uhhuh:

 

[Dx_God]

i would go for avast. avg did nothing for me and got myself a crap load of viruses while avast blocked pretty much all of them. and it's free

 

[boxhunter91]

As long as your not an idiot on the comp you wont get any viruses.
I dont have an antivirus and I dont get any viruses.

 

[Dx_God]

I dont have an antivirus and I dont get any viruses.

lol how do u know u don't have any viruses? a trojan not necessarily damage ur comp but rather records wat u did and sends it back to the hacker. so even if u did get a trojan, u wouldn't able tell until one day u found out that ur bank account is missing a couple thousand dollars. so just continue on without an anti-virus program and we'll see what happens in the future. o yea and even websites that are normally considered safe aren't that safe eg. google. u might want to know how many times google got hacked and if the hacker decides to put a virus then ur screwd

 

[badquinton304]

Only thing that sucks about kaspersky is they dont allow .KEY file activations anymore.

 

[ilikebeeef]

NOT Norton.

 

[dux&src]

NOT Norton.

I'd agree that it is a bit of a resource hog.

 

[Crestwood's_G]

one that protects ur computer

 

[I.refuse.a.name]

I'd agree that it is a bit of a resource hog.

True, but McAfee is definitely even more of a resource hog so I think Norton works for me

At OP: if by downloadable you mean free I think you should consider paid antivirus if you download much 'cause the protection is definitely worth a few extra bucks But if you really can't be bothered I think AVG Free Antivirus is O.K and demos for software that costs money after the trial period.

 

[Arcorn]

True, but McAfee is definitely even more of a resource hog so I think Norton works for me

At OP: if by downloadable you mean free I think you should consider paid antivirus if you download much 'cause the protection is definitely worth a few extra bucks But if you really can't be bothered I think AVG Free Antivirus is O.K and demos for software that costs money after the trial period.

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The paid firewalls and anti-viruses commonly suck. Kaspersky is just restrictive thus not a good option. Seriously get Comodo firewall and anti-virus and if you run a network install defense+ with it. And for malware and spyware get Malware Bytes.

Also learn to browse safely I haven't got any form of virus or malware since I was stupid enough to not read torrent comments and needed to reformat.(Promises of porn are not always true ). If you can't browse safely and don't learn from it when you don't you shouldn't be on a computer, so get a Mac, the most insecure system around.

 

[pman]

Try getting rid of windows, best protection you can have. I.e, install linux or somesuch, if you must have windows, AVG or kaspersky

 

[Arcorn]

And if you're on Linux don't be stupid enough to run as root. God I hate people who claim "I'm on Linux you can't do anything to me." and they're running as root.

 

[withoutaface]

so get a Mac, the most insecure system around.

lolwut we have ourselves a new snowfox

 

[ilikebeeef]

True, but McAfee is definitely even more of a resource hog so I think Norton works for me

No actually, Norton is worse. For boot delay, Norton is the worst by FAR. What Really Slows Windows Down - ThePCSpy.com

Even the Free AVG is better than Norton! Norton couldn't even pick up a number of Trojans that AVG free could!

EDIT: And yes, they were both "up to date" if you were wondering.

 

[SnowFox]

lolwut we have ourselves a new snowfox

Eh?

 

[Arcorn]

It is. They never have any protection, people who run them generally have no idea wtf they are talking about so thus are more likely to run with Admin privileges, the kernal despite being based on Unix is not Unix and thus isn't a secure as you macfags like to think it is. And seriously you can't run anything that doesn't have problems with it except Photoshop. Also do you really need all that crap that opens up holes in your security installed by default?

 

[kramxel]

symantec antivirus seems to do an ok job. microsoft forefront client security is rather good too

 

[ilikebeeef]

symantec antivirus seems to do an ok job. microsoft forefront client security is rather good too

No it does not. It let my school down. A USB virus infected all the school computers and Norton did not detect it. The problem was not known until some people started complaining that their USBs had viruses after using them on the school computers.

 

[Arcorn]

Ahaha yeah we had the same thing happen at our school except they knew about it straight away and had to reimage everything, cause my friend's a dick to the whole school. Then teachers couldn't use the smartboards

 

[withoutaface]

It is. They never have any protection, people who run them generally have no idea wtf they are talking about so thus are more likely to run with Admin privileges, the kernal despite being based on Unix is not Unix and thus isn't a secure as you macfags like to think it is. And seriously you can't run anything that doesn't have problems with it except Photoshop. Also do you really need all that crap that opens up holes in your security installed by default?

That's entirely wrong. The default user account settings require a password dialogue or sudo command before you make any system wide changes, the same way you would when running as a non root user in Linux. Further, the 10.5-10.6 kernels have both been unix certified (which Linux is not). Any Linux OS comes with far more preinstalled software than OSX does, and any windows PC from the common vendors comes flooded with insecure crapware and (perhaps more critically) Internet Explorer. Finally the fact that you think Photoshop works seamlessly on OS X shows you're completely oblivious to Adobe's retarded development process, and the idea that nothing else does shows you've never actually used a Mac.