New antivirus winner crowned

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited November 2009 in Science & Tech
New antivirus winner crowned
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  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I personally use AVG as a free anti virus because the false alarms in Avira drive me nuts.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Even if AVG's miss rate is 3x that of AVIRA?
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    hmm... Seems like it's time to dump AVG and go with either Avira or Avast.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    It has never failed me, but I am a good user, I don't wander into the abyss of the internet too often.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Avast was mistaking Folding@Home SMP for a virus the week before I parted and sold the computer... thought that was kind of funny.
  • GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz Queen Mountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I had an issue with my AVG where it refused to auto update for forever, and the problem came back after a week even when I reinstalled it and did troubleshooting and so on- and I ended up getting a ton of viruses as a result (Partially my fault, I didn't notice when it wasn't updating). I changed to Avira, and I'm happy and virus free.
  • miragemirage
    edited September 2009
    I wonder how Microsoft Security Essentials which is released today would rank in that list. Any clues?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    No idea. If it's anything like OneCare, then not very well. We'll probably have to wait until December to know.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I'm interested to know the answer to that as well.

    By the way, I use Avast and recommend it to all my clients. I'll have to check out Avira some time.
  • miragemirage
    edited September 2009
    I switched two notebook computers from AVG to MSSE today (one XP, one W7) to try. My initial impression is positive compared to AVG regarding the resource use (CPU+MEM) and user interface. Time will tell about the security. I will try Avira on another computer in parallel.
  • Cliff_ForsterCliff_Forster Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I went a while without running an Anti Virus at all, mostly because of the performance hit, but for the last couple years, with multi core processing and 4GB of ram or more, not to mention all the great free options, its a no brainier to keep some real time protection.

    I don't knock Avira, its a great tool and its free, I just found that it would raise allot of unnecessary flags. AVG has served me very nicely.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I've been using Avira ever since the great motherboard death of this summer and the subsequent Windows 7 install. While I don't have any problem with it's resource usage or anything, the nag windows it pops up to try and get you to buy the full version instead of the free version annoy the piss out of me. To the point where I'm about ready to dump it and go back to Avast! or AVG.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I switched to Avast about 10 months ago. I am very happy with it! I even purchased the WHS version which then integrates all the desktop versions and keeps track of everything. I can even scan remotely if needed.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    ardichoke wrote:
    I've been using Avira ever since the great motherboard death of this summer and the subsequent Windows 7 install. While I don't have any problem with it's resource usage or anything, the nag windows it pops up to try and get you to buy the full version instead of the free version annoy the piss out of me. To the point where I'm about ready to dump it and go back to Avast! or AVG.

    http://bit.ly/10yP7q
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    http://bit.ly/10yP7q
    So... easy.... Why did I never think to google this? I'm disappointed in myself.
  • GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz Queen Mountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Oh, I also need to disable that. Thanks, Rob!
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I've been using AVG free for years and it has always worked well for me.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Just like ie6.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited September 2009
    Call me crazy but my pc goes commando.
  • ZuntarZuntar North Carolina Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    shwaip wrote:
    Just like ie6.
    ;D
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I prefer Dr. Solomon's AntiVirus Toolkit.
  • John
    edited September 2009
    You need to resize your images better.
  • _k_k P-Town, Texas Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    ^oh snap!
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    John wrote:
    You need to resize your images better.

    What's wrong with them? They look perfectly fine to me.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    The images are taken directly from the AV-Comparatives PDF with no resizing. If there are artifacts, it's because the source document has them.
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    I look forward to this little piece every year, Thrax. Thanks!
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited September 2009
    I've been using the beta of MS's Security Essentials since it came out in my win7 beta and I've been very happy with it. I have tested it a couple times with sending in virus signatures in various ways and it's caught them all. I'm not actually worried about getting a virus myself because, well I'm not dumb. So it's more about preventing oops' if my wife is using the computer of if I'm needing to trouble shoot someone elses harddrive etc...

    So for those reasons I want an anti-virus software that doesn't hit the system resources badly and MS really is pretty light weight in that dept. It is far less of a hog compared to AVG and I've never personally liked Avast so I can't directly compare it.

    Normally if I was just needing a scan on demand anti-virus only I use clamwin. However because I do want some real-time scanning for oops protection I will be using Microsoft Security Essentials from now on. I'm quiet happy with it's performance and feel comfortable with it's security.

    Plus the dinks at Symantec have said it's horrible, useless and generally prone to horrible failure and no one should ever use it. Given their track record that's an awesome recommendation in my books. The whole enemy of my enemy thingy.
  • l3it3rl3it3r Fairfax County Member
    edited September 2009
    I too, use Security Essentials primarily because of its lightweight background processes.
  • lunchb0xlunchb0x Lansing, MI New
    edited September 2009
    But I think the real question is will these antiviruses protect my chicken from Dokken, like Norton will

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMXeE1EXJPM
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2009
    Bwahahahah, what in the fuck.
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