2006-11-16 21:58:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Hi there,
Instead of all these "Mine is better than yours" answers that go on around here, I'll instead answer with the facts.
Looking at current protection ratings, AVG scores a lowly 90% protection against all known viruses, whilst Avast comes in at 92%. This means they are letting through roughly one in every ten viruses - pretty shocking.
Norton and McAfee are slightly better by protecting against 98.3% and circa 97% respectfully of all known viruses. However, Norton and McAfee can be known for being very heavy programs which can tend to slow down certain machines. If you are thinking of installing either of these I would definitely recommend you download their free trial to check it does not affect your machine in this way prior to opening your wallet.
If you would be interested in other Security products that are better than all of these, you should try either Prevx1, Kaspersky or F-Secure who all score over a 99% protection rating.
Out of these three my recommendation would be Prevx1, as this is the quickest at protecting against new outbreaks of malware.
2006-11-16 23:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Secure Expert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-08-27 09:05:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.. Norton Antivirus is the best .especially the 2006 version has got a good GUI.but if u got a slower system then u`ve got to think twice about installing it on ur PC ..
apart from that you can go for AVG Antivirus, Avasti Antivirus,Mcafee Antivirus & Kaspersky Antivirus as well ...
2006-11-16 22:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best is the AVG Anti-virus. Go to http://grisoft.com
2006-11-16 22:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by Adababy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a good list of free anti-virus tools here, also has some good info .http://www.basicspywaretips.com/getridofspyware.html
2006-11-17 01:53:36 · answer #5 · answered by Tyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can give a few links that offer free virus and spyware removers...! Norton, AVG , Avast are free antivirus software. Ad-aware, Ewido are free spyware removers. You can download free softwares at
http://fixit.in/antivirus.html and http://fixit.in/spywareremover.html
2006-11-18 03:23:05 · answer #6 · answered by RAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norton. I used it recently to remove a trojan that caused popups prompting me to download rogue antivirus software (like smitfraudx, antivirus golden, etc.).
If you cant get Norton, I would get McAfee. But if at all possible, go with Norton.
2006-11-16 22:37:08 · answer #7 · answered by OwNeDbYdRuMs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No unmarried anti-virus application has one hundred% insurance, so you might respond to your query, your maximum complete insurance could be to overlap secure practices (i.e. get a commerical product and a unfastened product to improve your probabilities of detection/secure practices). i prefer to advise laptop buddies coupled with AVG unfastened. this provides a substantial point of secure practices with minimum source intake. better of success!
2016-10-22 06:02:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AVG from Grisoft
http://free.grisoft.com
2006-11-16 22:03:08 · answer #9 · answered by teef_au 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Avast pro www.avast.com
2006-11-16 22:32:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋