Best Anti Virus

Quote from masterm1ne:

The best antivirus to me is your own brain (I don't have software).

As a computer geek (builder/programmer) I'll tell u the thing about virus codes:

Malcious code can be built faster/before someone can write a code to stop it. By the time AV progs can defend against new threats, user(s) have already been infected.

Of course if you have an AV prog then you are protected against the things that have been out in the public web for a while. Other than that... you are screwed. Most of the times I've gotten infected, I had anti virus prog.

If you browse normal websites, ones you regularly visit, ones that are safe, then you shouldn't have a problem. Scan files before use with online scanners. I've been clean now for 6+ months no problem. Ocassionally I will reformat just for the tidy clean up.
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Could you please recommend a few "clean/safe" online scanner sites [other than the AV companies "Kaspersky, Norton, Etc..."].

I have always been apprehensive that a malicious website could be set up to mimic a "Safe" Virus Scanner.

Thank you in advance

https://www.google.com/search?q=onl...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
 
Quote from da-net:

MS SE found a few items, but missed quite a bit. AVG found more of the problems, but not all. Tried Norton, similar results to AVG.

Tried Avast, found ALL of the badware, trojans everything...then on the reboot into DOS it found and cleaned all the remnants.
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There's a reason free Avast has 200,000,000 downloads on cnet...
It's the #1 anti-virus in Europe...
I've used it on countless PCs over 6-7 years.

Just get the free version...
Paying $500/year for commodity anti-virus software...
Is the biggest scam in the world.
 
Quote from GoldenMember:

Could you please recommend a few "clean/safe" online scanner sites [other than the AV companies "Kaspersky, Norton, Etc..."].

I have always been apprehensive that a malicious website could be set up to mimic a "Safe" Virus Scanner.

Thank you in advance

https://www.google.com/search?q=onl...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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Years ago I was downloading an antivirus program and it blanked my computer right before my eyes, it was scary.
This was my business computer with bookkeeping, taxes and customer files on it. I'd done tape backups, BUT the program I used to back up the tape backups failed I had to pay a local guy several hundred dollars to retrieve some of my info from the harddrive. Doing the cloud backup thing now, hope it's better.
 
Have not read the thread, so this could have been mentioned before. Microsoft Security Essentials is a really good one, and it is free.
 
Kaspersky is awesome. I use it on all my machines. No bloat and system runs fast. Plus they are constantly updating. Second choice would be ESET Nod32. Don't bother with the rest.
 
Quote from DeeDeeTwo:

There's a reason free Avast has 200,000,000 downloads on cnet...
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I actually don't remember the last time I had a virus...
And this is on dozens of PCs over 6-7 years.

Anti-virus is no longer high-tech rocket science...
It's purely a simple commodity product.

That's why it can be given away FREE FOR PERSONAL USE by Avast...
While they charge corporations $500/year/PC for the same product.
 
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