Which is the best antivirus for a computer?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The Best Antivirus is Symanec for its security

Answer 4

Personal favorite between Norton and McAfee, it will be McAfee. When it comes to a virus, scanning with McAfee, it detects the latest viruses more times that Norton. Firewall, Norton. It depends on your requirements. Good combination, McAfee with a separate firewall such as Zone Alarms or Comodo.

Answer 5

All of these are ones that I personally use and all are free.

AVG Removes I-Worm/Stration · BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC · Worm/Generic.FX · Exploit.WMF
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer.
http://www.safer-networking.org/

http://superantispyware.com/
SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones!
Easily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!
Make sure after you download any of these, that you update them.

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Answer 6

I find that free antivirus are pretty good. I found a good list here.
http://www.basicspywaretips.com/spywareremovaltool.html

Answer 7

I've had terrific experiences with Symantec's Norton products.
We currently have their "Systemworks" package loaded, has Anti-Virus plus a lot of great clean-up and maintenance programs...$19.99 after $50 worth of rebates (woo-hoo...rebates)
I know a lot of people who like Mcaffe, too.

Answer 8

Go for a Norton Anti virus and keep on online updating every day...

Answer 9

norton is my pick, works great for protection etc...
unlike avg or avast that gets pushed here alot in answers, there detection and removal is lacking

Answer 10

Here you have some good and free ones:
http://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/security.htm
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