which is the best antivirus sofware for home based pc?

Question

norton ewido avg

Answer 1

Hi there,

Unless you really cannot afford to pay for a security solution, I would avoid free programs such as AVG, Spybot and Adaware. Shockingly these three programs used in conjunction now protects you from less than 60% of the threats out there today. In all seriousness, these programs (especially spybot and adaware) are no longer good enough to be your only protection against viruses, spyware and adware (as well as trojans, rootkits and other nasties). They used to be great programs a couple of years ago, but have now been overtaken by programs with next-generation approaches.

Looking at the latest mainstream protection scores it's currently Kaspersky that comes out on top (although seems to generate a high number of false positives), ahead of McAfee and then Norton. However, these scores are all currently dwarfed by another program called Prevx1. This is an all-in-one-solution that protects against all forms of infection (virii, spyware, adware, trojans, rootkits, etc), and has proven to have the strongest protection and clean-up capabilities of all security products available today.

Besides being inherently stronger than conventional security products, Prevx1 also protects against new malware threats that most popular security products do not. Regular security products have to catch a new piece of malware, test it in the laboratory, before creating a signature and making it available for their product to download to your PC - probably once a day at best. During this time, your PC is not protected. Prevx1 however, works in a completely unique way meaning it defends your PC from new malware from the instant it is first seen anywhere in the world - even without signatures and downloadable updates.

This alone is what makes Prevx1 currently the best security solution you can get.

http://www.prevx.com

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Norton Symantec and McAfee are problably the top two programs on the market. However, people very rarely get Viruses. The biggest problems that we have right now are Trojans, Varients, Keyloggers, Browser Hijackers, E-Mail worms, etc. The top five programs available to the public for these types of malicious programs are FREE to the public. There's even a FREE Antivirus Program called AVG and you search for the free version by using Googles Search Box. Holla if I can help you with any of the other programs in particular, I dont mind helping at all. Larry RadioShack

Answer 4

There's free stuff and stuff you pay for. I've used Norton's for the last 7 years and never had a virus affect me. McAfee makes a good package but I prefer Norton's.

Answer 5

I use AVG free and have not had any virus. It has caught 2 and fixed them. I think Zone Alarm good too. Norton messes up your computer too much.

Answer 6

Check out PC Cillin, this software is one of the best soft ware out there, it supports, wireless firewall, hard line firewall, antivirus, and lots more, I do Desktop Security work and I have found this to be the most efficient.

Answer 7

Download the free avg free addition from grisoft.

Answer 8

Hi,

A free software is not the best you can get!
I suggest McAfee - anti virus.
No Adware - anti adware/spyware I review these at http://www.xanga.com/smithkarl

Karl

Answer 9

Try some free ones before you buy. There's a good list here of the
popular ones.http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html

Answer 10

Not Norton. Someone was able to hack into my computer because I was using it.