Antivirus?

[Cat with the Gat]

In your experience and/or knowledge what is the best (free) antivirus software you've used/had?

[Vince ✟]

Kaspersky

[chiefputsilao✖️ping]

i lived in the philippines. so far for viruses found in the philippines, avg free is the best, imho.. lots of false positves though. : http://www.avg.com/us-en/free-antivirus-download

avast free is also good: http://www.avast.com/get/aEbb89ev

[Spíosra]

So many threads on antivirus...

I won't claim any are the best, but I will say that I tend to recommend AVG for Windows.

For those who are not irresponsible when it comes to security and are brighter than your average user, I highly recommend ClamAV because it is FOSS and reasonably effective.

[pseudobrgr]

Avast & malwarebytes

[GTsimms]

Messaggio originale di sinebrychoff:

Avast & malwarebytes

2nd on that one avast and Malwarebytes, I had issues with running Avast on some games with Windows 10. So, I have it on 7 and run Windows AV on 10 with Malwarebytes on dual op system.

[Estouls Aruta]

You should check out Trend Micro, it's really helpful

[SmollBrain 🏹]

Why has this question been asked so much recently?

[KingUrameshi]

Messaggio originale di sinebrychoff:

Avast & malwarebytes

[First&Only]

started off with AVG free for years, then swapped to Avast Free. Then i even paid for some features of Avast.
I find that when one gets better the others try to catch up (2-3 years back AVG was better then internet reviewd Avast to be the best from last year) - so you swap back and forth.
I cancelled Avast becasue it just messed my machine about in the end - always wanting to update something but freezing and taking forever. I didn't find it user friendly like AVG - but internet said it was better so lesson learnt - pick one and stick with it

[Yeetus Supremus]

the antiviruses I recommend are kaspersky, malwarebytes and bitdefender

[Wazari]

Malwarebytes

[MollyMo]

Windows defender and malwarebytes, not a single virus ever to wreak havoc, i kid you not.

[First&Only]

Messaggio originale di MollyMo:

Windows defender and malwarebytes, not a single virus ever to wreak havoc, i kid you not.

windows defender works for me too - not tried malwarebytes but have been told by my mate if i was to get a virus just install the trail version of this and it WILL sort the virus issue out then uninstall

[MollyMo]

Messaggio originale di First&Only:

Messaggio originale di MollyMo:

Windows defender and malwarebytes, not a single virus ever to wreak havoc, i kid you not.

windows defender works for me too - not tried malwarebytes but have been told by my mate if i was to get a virus just install the trail version of this and it WILL sort the virus issue out then uninstall

Yes, paid malwarebytes has real time protection in addition to the other features. Just get the free version and scan your pc from time to time, it does a hell of a good job finding and removing malware.

[DarskX]

Something else to consider when choosing what anti virus software to use;
http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/avc_datasending_2014_en.pdf

Protection wise you cant go wrong with kaspersky, Bitdfender or Eset.

In 2016 both Norton and Trendmicro had serious flaws with there software.

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/symantecs-woes-expose-antivirus-software-security-gaps/

http://www.securityweek.com/command-execution-flaw-patched-trend-micro-products?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Securityweek+%28SecurityWeek+RSS+Feed%29

So some anti virus software could make you even less secure!

I would avoid AVG.

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/86579-avg-privacy-policy-update-allows-sell-browsing-history/

The windows firewall and defender is good enough, if use common sense when browsing the internet.