Anti Virus Programs?

Question

I was wondering what are some good anti virus programs out there except for AVG, Norton Mcafee and Trend Micro

Answer 1

Panda (do not get)

zone alarm

kaspersky

pc tools

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bullguard (awesome) free 2 months, on there website.

Windows live onecare (free for 3 months!)

Bit defender

comodo (xp only)

avira

lots more.

I use mcafee 10 in 1

Answer 2

WELL THERE IS NOD32 WHICH IS QUITE GOOD.

Answer 3

Avast anti virus.  Or maybe you'd like a different one off this list.  They have reviews of each too.

Answer 4

Kaspersky and Nod32 are two of the three best (including Norton) of the paid for programs.  AVG, McAfee and Trend all have low detection and removal rates when compared.

Amongst free versions Avira and Avast are the highest ranking.

Check out this site for more information on the best you can find:

http://ultcomprepair.blogspot.com/2008/0...

Answer 5

You can find most at http://netsecuritycentral.com/default.as... if you'd like to research some.

Answer 6

My favorite and the best so far..

avast.com

hey forgot to tell, it's even better than norton due to its weight of installation and runtime resource consumption.

Answer 7

Antivirus(should only download one for each computer)

Avira antivirus(my recommended choice)

http://www.avira.com/en/downloads/

Personal Review: Very good detection rates. Sometimes I can find a false positive from time to time but that's not much of a problem. Also if you get the free version it has the annoying habait of giving a popup about paying for the software maybe two times a day. It is very good to avoid disrupting what you were doing so I give this a rating of 9/10

AVG Antivirus Free Edition

http://www.grisoft.com/

Personal Review: Easy to use. Not the best detection rates but I very good product anyhow.

Rating 7/10

Avast! Antivirus

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

Personal Review: Easy to use. It probably has better detection rates then AVG so I'll give this a 8/10

Sorry never tried Nod32 but I heard good things about it.

Now lets talk about the Anti-spyware

You can download as many as you want.

Spybot Search and Destroy

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/downl...

Great program! One of my favorites for detecting and removing spyware. A must have and it's freeware. There isn't even a paid version but there is a donate option. It has the option to Immunize your browsers and recovery system if you wanted to undo the removal.

Malwarebytes Antimalware Free Edition

It's probably my favorite anti malware program. Good detection rates. Only used for scanning if you have the free version but great no the less.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Malwarebytes RogueRemover Free

http://www.malwarebytes.org/rogueremover...

Detects for rogue software such has winfixer or spysheriff and deletes it. Just to let you know if you see a popup of rogue software suggesting you have "viruses" You should immedility disconnect your internet(to be on the safe side) and press ALT F4. Also please PLEASE don't click on either X,ok, or cancel because it will install anyway.

Superantispyware

A good scanning tool whats more there to say?

http://www.superantispyware.com/download...

It does sound like rogue software which is kinda annoying but trust me it's safe.

Adaware Free

http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2008/30...

Another great tool for finding spyware

Answer 8

http://www.free-av.com/

It's pretty good, fast scans, accurate.

Answer 9

whyy would u not want to use one of the ones youv listed? :s

eh.. google it i guess! :]

Answer 10

Most malwares are designed to attack popular

antivirus products (like Symantec, Norton), but since free anti-virus product is much less used, it's capable of fighting the viruses when industry leaders fail.

Symantec/Norton are responsible for BSOD ( Blue Screen Of Death )

see story

http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...

I would suggest that you get Avast Home Edition version 4,

which is free for personal use.

Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do

a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove the entire virus on your PC.

Even those viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

Windows utilize a restore utility that backs up selected files

automatically to the System volume information /System Restore folder.

This means that an infected file could be stored there as a backup file,

and most anti-virus programs will be unable to delete these files. You

must disable the System Restore Utility to remove the infected files

from the folder if you use another brand of anti-virus. However, you do

not need to do so if you use Avast to do a boot up scan in safe mode.

Avast Anti-virus installation

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

How to configure Avast ?

http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/soe/an...

Answer 11

I'll second Kaspersky and Nod32