Whats the best antivirus?

Question

price doesnt matter..i dont care if it slows down my pc.something that finds more stuff..i personally think norton is the best but i dont know..avg sucks and so does mcafee..help

Answer 1

There is no the best one for everybody, you should check yourself the trustworthy antispywares. Hope this article will help you.

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Answer 2

Here is very good and effective free Antivirus available to install, That is,

PCTools

It provides Free Antivirus and Firewall with free registration for regular updates.

Download at       http://needcom.in

and look for

Softwares > Antivirus > PCTools

you can find more anti viruses there.

Answer 3

ESET SMART SECRUTY IS BEST ANTIVIRUSE

BECAUSE : IT Lightweight AND DO THE SCAN FAST

Answer 4

I use Comodo, it's free and you can download it from the net, nothing gets through it!

Answer 5

BitDefender is the choice for the best antivirus software

Deal Makers

    * Effective antivirus protection

    * Light footprint on your computer    

    * Excellent price (One user license for one year at $24.95; A full-featured trial version is available for download and runs for 24 days).

    * Special Gamer mode that protects your machine without interrupting your play and game performance

Deal Breakers

    * Technical support could be better, and they need U.S. phone tech support.

    * Scanning was on the slower side of the programs we tested and the uninstall utility was less than perfect in removing traces of the program when we removed it.    

Answer 6

I think   Kaspersky  ,AVG Anti-Virus and Rising Antivirus is better software .

you can go to that website to lonk for best antivirus

hope can help you  

Answer 7

Many people have the mistaken idea that free is not good.

The other day, my free anti-virus program caught a Trojan virus.

To ensure that the virus caught is not a false positive,

I upload it to virus total web site to check.

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/c3558...

To my surprise, all the big names in Anti-virus industry cannot detect

the Trojan. The one that detect the Trojan are mainly the free version.

Later, I found out that most malwares are designed to attack popular

antivirus products (like Symantec, McAfee or Norton), but since free anti-virus

product is much less used, it's capable of fighting the viruses when

industry leaders fail.

So I would go for the free version rather than the bloated and

unreliable branded version.

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 8

I have used avast for several years, and have always found it to be very effective and not in any way obtrusive.

I also use spybot (without installing teatimer) which is excellent at clearing out spyware.

Both excellent free programs which have very frequent free updates.

Answer 9

Here is a list of all antivirus rankings --

http://virus.gr/portal/en/content/2008-0...

Number 10 in this list happen to be free, yet still outscores many paid antivirus.  You can download it from

http://www.free-av.com

You can see where norton and mcafee are ranked in this list. They are beaten by many others.

And I think this is the only list on internet which ranks all antivirus that exist.

The best in the world per this list is G-DATA. Its an extremely powerful antivirus, but also very pricey.

Answer 10

I've cleaned up many deeply infected computers and these programs are the best. ~ Patrick :-)

Stay away from AVG and Norton's neither has high detection / removal rates, and Nortons will slow your computer to a crawl.

The top rated Antivirus/Spyware suite by those who test antivirus programs (av-comparitives, virus.gr, etc) is Kaspersky

(I have used this to clean up machines that nothing else would work on.

download a 30 day free trial here.

http://www.download.com/3120-20_4.html?q...

After cleaning up your computer I suggest buying it (I’ve seen it on Amazon for under $30)

The 2 top FREE programs for removing spyware are SuperAntispyware and Malwarebytes

http://www.download.com/SUPERAntiSpyware...

http://www.download.com/Malwarebytes-Ant...

great removal tool for the vundo Trojan and rogue application xp antivirus 2008