Can anyone recomend some good Anti Virus software?

[JU_88]

As the topic title suggests I am looking for some good Anti-Virus software to replace AVG free, as the AVGRS.exe process has recently decided it needs 80% of my CPU resources, even when AVG is Idle. I have trawled the web and it seems there is no simple solution for this problem. other than kill/disable the process.
So i figured I will jump ship and trash AVG.

I am Looking for replacement AV software that is either Cheap or free :) and does a reasonable job, viruses dont bother me too much since I ghost
my system drive every month or so. So if i get something truley nasty, i will simply recover from the last image.

Anyway, all recomendations welcome - apart from Norton and McAffee, (I hate them both - for reasons too long and boring to explain here)

Thanks guys :up:

[Reece]

Well I have had McAfee, AVG and quite a few others, I now have Avira Free personal edition & been using for the last couple of years with no hassles, very happy,:up: I use this with XP, don't know about Vista or Win 7 though.:hmmm:

[donut]

It is not compatable with outlook 2007, now using AVAST free.:sunny:

[Syxx_Killer]

I've been using Avast for a long time now. It is really good and has saved me a number of times. I've only used AVG twice and never will again. I never recommend it, either. On one occasion it let a homepage hijacker slip through (a couple days after installing it). I don't remember what happened the second time, if it let something slip through or adversely affected my computer, but something messed up. I got rid of it for Avast.

[Gerald]

F-Secure Client Security.

[Gerald]

As the topic title suggests I am looking for some good Anti-Virus software to replace AVG free, as the AVGRS.exe process has recently decided it needs 80% of my CPU resources, even when AVG is Idle. I have trawled the web and it seems there is no simple solution for this problem. other than kill/disable the process.
So i figured I will jump ship and trash AVG.

I am Looking for replacement AV software that is either Cheap or free :) and does a reasonable job, viruses dont bother me too much since I ghost
my system drive every month or so. So if i get something truley nasty, i will simply recover from the last image.

Anyway, all recomendations welcome - apart from Norton and McAffee, (I hate them both - for reasons too long and boring to explain here)

Thanks guys :up:

I send a post before but I add this also, Spybot-Search & destroy,free and blocking all bad pages or redirect.I´ts simple and run silent very low CPU,so u don`t need to boot all the time the app manage this.

[FIREWALL]

This has already been posted and gave alot of choices.

Avast was a clear winner on All OS.


Check link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158423

[Gerald]

This has already been posted and gave alot of choices.

Avast was a clear winner on All OS.


Check link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158423

Have realtime update,its ok! No matter what kind off app,you use,but if the app ONLY take down data update ,say 1 or 2 times every day,not good so realtime update is a fact..

[JSLTIGER]

Avast! FTW.

[danlisa]

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[d@rk51d3]

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Not free, not cheap, just good. :up:

[conus00]

Kaspersky AntiVirus 8.0
Not free but definitely worth it!

[VirtualVikingX]

The new Norton 360 3.0 is quite good infact. Check out some of the reviews.

[AVGWarhawk]

Use Avast, Malewarebytes and of course your firewall. :03:

[Syxx_Killer]

I know I said I would never use AVG again, but guess what I just installed? :oops: I still like Avast and recommend it to people with a computer not as possessed as mine. :damn: I had to remove Avast and figured AVG is better than no AV protection. I sure hope AVG won't start using 80% of my CPU like JU_88. :doh: Here's a little bit on why I got rid of Avast:

Every once in a while (been happening for a long time now) I would boot up my computer and the little Avast bubble in the system tray would appear with the red symbol as if it was disabled. When it first started happening, I would go to Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - and choose Avast. From there I could do a repair and be on my way again (this was the solution I found on the Avast forums). Well, somewhere along the way it started affecting the bootup process. My computer would just hang. I would have to boot into Safe Mode to resolve the issue (been doing this for quite a while, too). Well, today just happened to do the same, except it didn't go too well. It has been at the back of my mind what would happen if Avast wouldn't repair. I found out today. :damn: I uninstalled it via Safe Mode and redownloaded it. Once installed and rebooted, the same thing happened. I uninstalled it again in Safe Mode and went crawling back to AVG. :dead:

AVG has sure changed since I last used it (7.5 I think). Hopefully, I won't have any issues with it like I did Avast. Someday when I get a different computer I will probably go back to Avast. Right now, though, I am relegated to using AVG again.

[kiwi_2005]

Use Avast, Malewarebytes and of course your firewall. :03:

Use the free Malewarebytes and Zone Alarm thats good enough.

Forget about the stupid anti virus software.

[AVGWarhawk]

Use the free Malewarebytes and Zone Alarm thats good enough.

Forget about the stupid anti virus software.


Well, you need to watch and I recommend all three. Today I looked into a virus that was sent out on my friends Facebook. It as a trojan and it also redirected any links on her Facebook page to a porn site. Needless to say she did not want to send links to porn sites. At any rate, I clicked the link and ESET AV caught the virus and Windows Defender also recognized the threat. Malewarebytes did not but I did use Malewarebytes to remove the offender. I recommend all three for good protection. As a side note, my Norton AV on my daughters computer caught the virus and shut it out. Avast on my Vista machine caught the virus and shut it out. Avast is free and is not intrusive at all. It updates at sign in and sits quietly until needed.

[kiwi_2005]

Well, you need to watch and I recommend all three. Today I looked into a virus that was sent out on my friends Facebook. It as a trojan and it also redirected any links on her Facebook page to a porn site. Needless to say she did not want to send links to porn sites. At any rate, I clicked the link and ESET AV caught the virus and Windows Defender also recognized the threat. Malewarebytes did not but I did use Malewarebytes to remove the offender. I recommend all three for good protection. As a side note, my Norton AV on my daughters computer caught the virus and shut it out. Avast on my Vista machine caught the virus and shut it out. Avast is free and is not intrusive at all. It updates at sign in and sits quietly until needed.

Knowledge is your BEST protection. Yes have an antivirus if you must but what the hell its doesn't really matter, knowledge is the key here, safe browsing, no porn sites no social sites unless you know what your doing in social sites stay away from it! A hackers paradise is a social site lol.

Some viruses can never be detected.

I read this on Tomshardware forum a awhile back:

There is an exploit out that once triggered it will take your passwords that are stored in your browser, Messenger and attempt to send them out to the internet where your passwords will be used for a hackers benefit. This could mean that all your accounts such as Paypal, Forums, File hosts Social sites, Credit Cards and anything else of value could become compromised and you may lose them or money. Virtually NO Anti Viruses will detect an infection as they are continuing changing, firewalls will allow it out so it can send information back to the hackers pc, Zonealarm one of the best cannot detect it. This can come in trogan form, from a link, an jpg, exe, txt file anything.

Stays dormant on your machine does not slow down your pc or anything thats seems suspicous to the user will jump from drive to drive to become more hard to detect dont even think reformat windows will get rid of it if multiple forms is on your other drives. Microsoft dont even want to know about it this is one update they can't invent.

One way you can avoid it working is never let your browser/chat software save your passwords. Copy all your passwords down into a txt file save it to your desktop (providing you trust others who use your pc) and copy paste pw's to use when logging in.

[AVGWarhawk]

Knowledge is your BEST protection. Yes have an antivirus if you must but what the hell its doesn't really matter, knowledge is the key here, safe browsing, no porn sites no social sites unless you know what your doing in social sites stay away from it! A hackers paradise is a social site lol.



Here is my git, my wife and girls, although can operate the computer and surf the net sometimes end up clicking the wrong thing. As noted above with a link sent in Facebook that was subsequently hacked. My wife clicked on it fully trusting her friend's link to some nice site or something. Up popped Norton and said, 'No way!' It was a redirect virus to a porn site. Some get by on these sites that have kids games. My youngest clicked a link in a seemingly innocent site that had kids games. Virus got in. It was a redirect virus that always redirected my web browsing to a 'anti-virus' site. It was a total set up if I have ever seen one. It took a better part of 2 hours to rid the machine of the damn thing. Anti-virus do serve their purpose. To me the more hoops the virus has to jump through the better off your computer will be.


Condoms are 99% effective against conceiving a child and or contracting a STD. Sometimes the condom breaks and it is that 1% chance of conceiving and or contracting a STD. If you leave your computer without a anti-virus you got a 100% chance of getting a virus. Why give the virus the chance to come in all in the name of having a faster machine or "I surf smart."? I would much prefer the 99% coverage and take my chance on 1% failure. 100% failure is and should not be an option on anyone computer specifically when there are multiple anti-virus programs out there that work very well and do so with a minimal footprint.

As far as Trojans and stealing of password, change your passwords often. Do not send information over the net on a site that does not have https (s for secure). Have a bank that contacts you with strange activity is happening with your account. I use one credit vard on the net. If anything is charged over $150.00 I'm notified via email and phone. There are ways to protect yourself other then depending on an anti-virus although the anit-virus is part of the overall protection picture.

[Giuseppe]

Buy an Apple Macintosh. I have a Macbook Pro with Windows XP. And SH4 WOP and UBM run fine fine fine.

[NeonSamurai]

Mac's are hardly invulnerable to viruses. Just most hackers don't bother writing viruses for systems that pretty much only graphic designers use. Apple's market share isn't even in the double digits (around 3-5%).

Condoms are 99% effective against conceiving a child and or contracting a STD. Sometimes the condom breaks and it is that 1% chance of conceiving and or contracting a STD.

Umm not exactly. Condoms are much more unreliable for birth control. Perfect use has a 2% chance of pregnancy per year on average, typical use is around 10-18% pregnancy chance per year. If you don't know how to put one on properly/are inexperienced with them, the chance jumps to way over 50% per year. They are good for most blood transmitted STDs though, particularly AIDS. This is why I always say don't rely only on condoms for birth control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_methods#Effectiveness_ of_various_methods

[AVGWarhawk]

Ok, 2% Neon if used perfectly :O: I said 1%. :D Point is, best to have an anti-virus and reduce the % a virus will infect the old hard drive! :har:

Condom with spermicide.... :03:

[NeonSamurai]

Ok, 2% Neon if used perfectly :O: I said 1%. :D Point is, best to have an anti-virus and reduce the % a virus will infect the old hard drive! :har:

Condom with spermicide.... :03:

Yep that is true unless of course you got suckered into one of those fake AV programs which install more viruses. :03:

[AVGWarhawk]

Yep that is true unless of course you got suckered into one of those fake AV programs which install more viruses. :03:

Ah, that is what happened to my daughter. She clicked a link that showed the usual you got a virus and porn, yadda yadda click here for the anti-virus program that will remove this virus. Total scam. When I checked into the virus on the infected computer the internet would redirect me right to the same "anti-virus" site that can remove this virus. What a set up it was. I'm sure many have paid and the virus was gone but all the same the virus could be removed with Malewarebytes. At any rate, some people are suckered into these fake programs. No doubt about it. Then there are people who ask a bunch of questions first. :03: