AVG, Anti-Vir, AVAST, Bitdefender, or Kaspersky
2006-08-13 16:38:51 · 15 answers · asked by West 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
My opinion is: get McAfee :)
2006-08-13 16:41:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Avast is free for home use, very stable, reliable, and doesn't eat up system resources as much as McAfee or Symantec.
Lots of people like AVG. I have yet to try it, but it often gets high marks in reviews. Like Avast, it has a fully functional free version for home users.
The free edition of BitDefender is very limited in that it doesn't provide real-time virus scanning. If you decide on this one buy the Standard edition.
Kaspersky only offers a 30 day trial and no free solution.
I would definitely go with Avast or AVG.
As jibberjabbar pointed out, http://www.av-comparatives.org/ is a very good site. Although I'm not sure I agree with his interpretation of the results. Regardless they are all very good AV Suites. The test preformed by AV-Comparatives are tough tests. In all likely hood any one of them will provide a sufficient amount of detection and protection for virus and trojans. You still will need to get an anti-spyware product if not included with your AV suite.
2006-08-13 17:04:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kaspersky has the best virus detection rates and uses the least system resources, but it is expensive.
Anti-Vir has the best detection rates of the free ones.
Avast and AVG miss about 10% of all viruses.
2006-08-13 16:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by jibberjabbar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kaspersky.
2006-08-13 16:44:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't run anti-virus because the virus definitions greatly slow down the performance of you computer.
But I have heard great things about AdAware by Lavasoft. It's free AV software.
2006-08-13 16:45:13 · answer #5 · answered by RyanSmith 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hi, i thinks kaspersky is better. but you should pay for the software.
i recommand you to use firefox with Google toolbar. firefox can disable all virus to run, because the virus can only run on IE.
besides, firefox can block any any poppus and disable any virus and adware, spyware on webpage, so, firefox is much safer than IE. as you know, most of the virus is spread throught internet and webpage.
firefox is much smaller than IE, so i run faster than IE.
download firefox for free:
http://www.adcenter.net.cn/firefox/
Best Wishes && Good Luck!
2006-08-13 17:50:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have Avast on my desktop and AVG on my laptop, I'm getting updates from AVG more often.
2006-08-13 16:46:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
avast have used it for 8 yrs
with xoftspy 6 yrs
and noadware 5yrs
no problems
2006-08-17 08:02:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use Norton AntiVirus, and have been using it for about like 4 years now. Its good.
2006-08-13 16:44:15 · answer #9 · answered by cowgoesbaaa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Norton. Yahoo Mail scans attachments. If Yahoo uses it, that ought to tell you something.
2006-08-13 16:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go here and read this site and then you can decide what is good and best for you. I doubt if you will cause it is not the easy way, but here it is:
http://www.internetinspiration.co.uk/computer_privacy_and_security.htm
2006-08-13 16:57:51 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋