Someone can recomend me a good and free antivirus?

[m i t c h e l l o]

Well, I got a big problem,

I'm using avast for a year now but when I got W10 it was causing it to explorer crash. 1 week ago I just found out avast was cousing it, and i had the problem for months. Anyway, after that I uninstalled avast and installed avira, but i can say the AV has the most sh!t performance ever. BF4 became very unplayable. (from 80 FPS dropping to 30-40 FPS). (This affects other games too.)

Also, I tried AVG free AV. But sadly its protection isnt that good, it doesnt detect a test malware I downloaded (A testfile to test your AV, search up: EICAR)

Any other free AV's that has good performance for gaming?

Avira is a good AV but sucks for gaming,

Avast is good but causes explorer to crash and I'm unable to restore it by restarting explorer. Avast has overall good performance on gaming.

[The Giving One]

Whatever you do, I suggest that you avoid antivirus programs listed here.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

I have used Avira for years and love it.

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

Avira is a good AV but sucks for gaming,

Why are you saying this ? I have NEVER had a problem with Avira and Steam.

Maybe this should be posted in another forum, like off topic or hardware and OS.

[Coookiee]

avast

[m i t c h e l l o]

Avast did not detect any false-positives with steam. I also used kaspersky, great AV but the store where I got it from went bankrupt.

Avira had horrible performance for me on Battlefield 4 and GTA V. Once I uninstalled it I got great performance again.

[Sentinel]

Comodo antivirus. It is free and pretty robust. It can be overwhelming for beginner but you get options to surpass most of the announcements. It is versatile and it offer a lot of options.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Messaggio originale di The Giving One:

Whatever you do, I suggest that you avoid antivirus programs listed here.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9828-SFLZ-9289

I have used Avira for years and love it.

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

Avira is a good AV but sucks for gaming,

Why are you saying this ? I have NEVER had a problem with Avira and Steam.

Maybe this should be posted in another forum, like off topic or hardware and OS.

I say this because I'm having horrible performance with it. Avast has good performance but causes explorer to crash (I uninstalled it, but I installed it now again, its temporary.)

Also I post this here, because Avira is affecting most games I have. Like GTA V.

[The Giving One]

Did you make sure to actually add the whole Steam folder in your exceptions for real-time scanning in Avira or any other antivirus ?

Avast is on the list, and so is Kaspersky. I have seen them be a problem with Steam for many, many times and many, many users here.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Messaggio originale di The Giving One:

Did you make sure to actually add the whole Steam folder in your exceptions for real time scanning in Avira ?

Avast is on the list, and so is Kaspersky. I have seen them be a problem with Steam for many, many times and many, many users here.

Uhh, no xD, does that help and how to do it? Does that fix the problem with the performance on games?

Is it possible to add more folders to the exception list? Because GTA is saved somewhere else (I got the disk version)

[Johnny Cash]

I'm on Windows 7. I'm not using any AV programs. Sometimes, I scan for malware with malwarebytes. But that's basically it. Apart from the windows firewall, of course.

And my system is not riddled with viruses or trojans.

I keep all my programs updated. For browsing, I use Firefox configured with a whitelist for cookie usage, addons like uBlock Origin (to block ads), Ghostery (to block trackers), and NoScript (to block websites from running anything fancy, I choose which website is whitelisted). I also don't open email attachments from unknown people or click on suspicious links.

It's definitely more complicated to do it this way but also safer, in my opinion.

[The Giving One]

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

Uhh, no xD, does that help and how to do it? Does that fix the problem with the performance on games?

Is it possible to add more folders to the exception list? Because GTA is saved somewhere else (I got the disk version)

Yes, it surely may help. I suggest that you add the whole Steam folder to real-time scan exceptions and be done with it. Reboot your PC after making changes, just to be sure they take effect.

http://www.avira.com/en/support-for-business-knowledgebase-detail/kbid/900

EDIT.. You also need to look at my first link given here in this thread and see if you have other possbily problematic software that can conflict with Steam. The list is not all inclusive, but it is an excellent source.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Messaggio originale di The Giving One:

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

Uhh, no xD, does that help and how to do it? Does that fix the problem with the performance on games?

Is it possible to add more folders to the exception list? Because GTA is saved somewhere else (I got the disk version)

Yes, it surely may possibly help. I suggest that you add the whole Steam folder to real-time scan exceptions and be done with it.

http://www.avira.com/en/support-for-business-knowledgebase-detail/kbid/900

EDIT.. You also need to look at my first link given here in this thread and see if you have other possbily problematic software that can conflict with Steam. The list is not all inclusive, but it is an excellent source.

Thanks, I will definately try this. Do you use the free Avira?

[The Giving One]

Yes. I have used the free Avira for years here on anything from XP to Windows 7. Never have I personally had any problems with Steam or infections, for that matter. I love Avira.

Please see my edits to my post above.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Messaggio originale di The Giving One:

Yes. I have used the free Avira for years here on anything from XP to Windows 7. Never have I personally had any problems with Steam or infections, for that matter. I love Avira.

Please see my edits to my post above.

I'm reinstalling avira, and I'm going to see if it works. Is it possible to add multiple folders to the exception list? Because I have GTA saved on a different folder and not in the steam folder, same for BF4 which is saved in the origin folder.

[The Giving One]

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

I'm reinstalling avira, and I'm going to see if it works. Is it possible to add multiple folders to the exception list?

Yes. You can add individual files and folders as you wish, but if you just add game folders and something is going on there that is causing Avira to have an issue with Steam itself, then that will not do anything, because Steam.exe is not in any game's folders, you see.

Just add the whole Steam folder. That is the easiest way. Steam is not malicious, so why not, I say.

[m i t c h e l l o]

Messaggio originale di The Giving One:

Messaggio originale di ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ):

I'm reinstalling avira, and I'm going to see if it works. Is it possible to add multiple folders to the exception list?

Yes. You can add individual files and folders as you wish, but if you just add game folders and something is going on there that is causing Avira to have an issue with Steam itself, then that will not do anything, because Steam.exe is not in any game's folders, you see.

Just add the whole Steam folder. That is the easiest way. Steam is not malicious, so why not, I say.

I'll add the steam folder and the origin folder, and the folder where GTA V is saved. Does that work?

[The Giving One]

Save files should "not" be an issue. Yes, I would just add all the folders. If you start trying to add individual files, that can get a bit messy and you could miss some that need to be added. I never worry about save game folders or files. But you can add save files if you wish. I don't really see an issue with that.

Does that answer your question ?