Good non-intrusive antivirus?

[IkusaTakuma]

Avast has finally annoyed me enough to decide to stop using Avast and switch to something else. Here's the oh-so-many things that Avast did (avast claims to have a game mode, but it doesn't actually add my games to the games list):
1. Kicked me off a competitive Overwatch match (resulting in me deranking from diamond to plat) to remind me that the average ransomware bill is $1,077.
2. Every time Avast reminds me that apparenlty there's 150GB of junk on my drive (games).
3. Every time avast tells me all the programs that are slowing my PC (ironically, Avast pushes more CPU and RAM usage out of my system than any other program)
4. randomly gives me threat detected popups on completely safe webpages (such as youtube and facebook).
5. Didn't stop a real threat (my school's website got infected, and Avast did nothing to stop the malware, redirect popups, etc)
6. Reminded me that I should use a VPN (despite that I already am using a vpn)
7. randomly gives me threat detected popups while my computer is idling and I'm doing nothing.

So what's a good antivirus that's not intrusive? I'd even be willing to pay for something non-intrusive at this point.

[Sapph]

Honestly, if you are using Windows 10, you don't need anything else on the side of Windows Security. It's simply the least intrusive anti-virus and any other antivirus on the side of it can just bring more trouble than help. Sometimes even open some holes in the protection.

Windows Security + UBlock Origin + VPN and you should have all security you will ever need.

[IkusaTakuma]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Honestly, if you are using Windows 10, you don't need anything else on the side of Windows Security. It's simply the least intrusive anti-virus and any other antivirus on the side of it can just bring more trouble than help. Sometimes even open some holes in the protection.

My family owns an IT business and we maintain an off-site server with private info, all our computers are legally required to have an antivirus.

[Sapph]

Originally posted by IkusaTakuma:

My family owns an IT business and we maintain an off-site server with private info, all our computers are legally required to have an antivirus.

Oh, well that indeed changes things.

Well, BitDefender would seem to currently be the best one. But that of course costs money.

[IkusaTakuma]

Originally posted by Sapph:

Originally posted by IkusaTakuma:

My family owns an IT business and we maintain an off-site server with private info, all our computers are legally required to have an antivirus.

Oh, well that indeed changes things.

Well, BitDefender would seem to currently be the best one. But that of course costs money.

well, if it doesn't constantly advertise itself I'd be willing to pay at this point.

[Sapph]

Originally posted by IkusaTakuma:

well, if it doesn't constantly advertise itself I'd be willing to pay at this point.

There is actually a free edition, but protection wise it's worse than Avast. But you can at least test it out for free.

[Your_Dad]

ESET is also pretty nice. It's not hard on your PC resources, The only time I see the AV name is at startup. Not sure about overwatch but I've never had any issues with DOTA or CS and if it does cause any issues, you can turn on the gaming mode(Never used it, but it's there)

[Viper]

I use Kapersky. It seems to be pretty good and is rated pretty highly. It even includes a protected browser for using for websites you want to encrypt your key presses ( credit card purchases, logins ).I never get any popups of any kind. It requires an initial purchase an yearly subscription rate however.

Athough if your getting that many threat popups. I would not blame it all on your security suite. Just because your doing nothing or are on a safe webpage does not meant your PC is doing nothing or the internet is not doing nothing. When your on the internet you are part of the internet and your connection goes both directions. Anybody else on the interent can try to interact with your PC...all they need is its IP address. Every website has and IP address. The DNS server just changes yahoo.com to 209.191.88.254 for instance. Your PC is just like another website. Only it has no name ( yahoo.com) attached to it to allow the DNS to connect to it. I would run MalwareBytes to check for Malware on your PC..

[IkusaTakuma]

Originally posted by Viper:

Athough if your getting that many threat popups. I would not blame it all on your security suite. Just because your doing nothing or are on a safe webpage does not meant your PC is doing nothing or the internet is not doing nothing. When your on the internet you are part of the internet and your connection goes both directions. Anybody else on the interent can try to interact with your PC...all they need is its IP address. Every website has and IP address. The DNS server just changes yahoo.com to 209.191.88.254 for instance. Your PC is just like another website. Only it has no name ( yahoo.com) attached to it to allow the DNS to connect to it. I would run MalwareBytes to check for Malware on your PC..

I've scanned my computer with malwarebytes, nothing popped up.

[Viper]

Originally posted by IkusaTakuma:

Originally posted by Viper:

Athough if your getting that many threat popups. I would not blame it all on your security suite. Just because your doing nothing or are on a safe webpage does not meant your PC is doing nothing or the internet is not doing nothing. When your on the internet you are part of the internet and your connection goes both directions. Anybody else on the interent can try to interact with your PC...all they need is its IP address. Every website has and IP address. The DNS server just changes yahoo.com to 209.191.88.254 for instance. Your PC is just like another website. Only it has no name ( yahoo.com) attached to it to allow the DNS to connect to it. I would run MalwareBytes to check for Malware on your PC..

I've scanned my computer with malwarebytes, nothing popped up.

okay..Good luck with your search for Anti Virus software that fits your needs.

[LiMpY]

My ISP offers a free registered version of McAfee. Maybe yours has something too.
I went this route because Avast cheezed me off too. Plus they charged me for a subscription I didn't knowingly order. grrrr!

[Vox]

Bitdefender or Kaspersky.
Bitdefender has a 6month trial offer https://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/consumer/new/get-total-security2018-opt/

I'm currently using it as my Kaspersky key expired recently; it can also be installed on 5 computers

[Cathulhu]

Using BitDefender on my private PC and FortiClient on my notebook as i'm working with Fortinet products a lot in my line of work.
Great if you have a FortiGate or a Fortinet EMS (requires separate license) in your company.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

none, just windows defender, everything else has been found wanting as they have to behave as a virus themselves, and then their mistakes open vulnerabilities in your system, as has been found time and time again by researchers.