Free Antivirus((No Anti-EXE,Lockdown,whitelisting software))

[Captain Awesome]

Which is good for tweaking Protection?

 

[Syafiq]

Voted for Avast! Free Antivirus, you can set the protection to Hardended mode:Aggressive, enable the PUPs detection, and change the heuristics sensitivity to Max

 

[Captain Awesome]

For me Windows Defender(ATP) with harden Windows Defender protection by Group Policy and PUP enabled.I use windows10 enterprise.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Voted for Avast! Free Antivirus, you can set the protection to Hardended mode:Aggressive, enable the PUPs detection, and change the heuristics sensitivity to Max

Yes avast is good now days.

 

[212eta]

Which is good for tweaking Protection?

For Tweaking, my vote goes to avast.

 

[Marko :)]

Definitely Avast. It has bunch of options user can change.

 

[monkeylove]

Thanks. Besides Defender, which one has no popup ads or that can be disabled?

 

[Sunshine-boy]

Avast is the best in this list but buggy so I would pick Kasper sky or Q360.

 

[insanity]

If it's about tweaking, then Avast is the way to go.

 

[Solarlynx]

As for protection then Comodo you can tweak its HIPS up to uber-paranoid level. The second winner for me is Avast with its hardened mode and nice BB.

 

[amico81]

you can push Avast to a higher level of protection...just use the tweaks form evjl rain's and you will
have a good antivirus for free . Used it for months....will come back to it after testing Gdata and Bullguard

 

[tonibalas]

As @Solarlynx already said Comodo would be the best for tweaked protection and then Avast.
On Comodo forget about the signatures they will not help you much in protection.
But HIPS and Sandbox tweaked will always be there for you.

As for Avast it also has plenty of options to tweak and can offer you very strong protection

 

[Deleted member 178]

Basic free AV aren't made for tweaking...they are made to be smooth and user-friendly with little interaction for the users.

 

[Bleak]

Basic free AV aren't made for tweaking...they are made to be smooth and user-friendly with little interaction for the users.

Yet, avast free, Avira free and Kaspersky freehas more options to customize more than Emsisoft

 

[Captain Awesome]

Emsisoft Anti-Malware is not a Free product it is a install and forget type of product.