Battle Free Antivirus of the Year 2018 - Nominate

[jackuars]

This thread is now closed. Please vote for your favorite product at Free Antivirus of the Year 2018 - Poll​

Hello and we are back for 2018

2015 Winner - Qihoo Total Security
2017 Winner - Avast Free Antivirus
2018 Winner - ??????

Last year Avast won the nominations & the final round. This time are we expecting anything different? Let's wait and watch

To make these nominations/results more constructive for the end-user, I will start a Pro & Con section for each antivirus in their respective sections. Please state what you found best in each antivirus to help other users.

WINNER DECISION: 2 Phases

NOMINATE ONLY: 2 Products (AV/IS/TS)
NOMINATION PHASE: 9th Nov- 19th Nov

FINAL POLL: 5 Products (most nominated)
POLL PHASE: 20th Nov - 30th Nov

WINNER DECLARATION: 1st Dec​

CURRENT NOMINATION STANDINGS (votes) - Till military
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1. Kaspersky - 29
2. Microsoft - 6
3. Forticlient - 5
4. Comodo - 5
5. Bitdefender - 4
6. Panda - 3
7. Zonealarm - 3
8. Avast - 3
9. AVG - 2
10. Tencent - 2

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[Mariihh]

Is Tencent safe software?

If they cheated with a company, imagine what they do with ordinary user? step away from Qihoo and Tencent

 

[Brie]

OK, it seems, that I was wrong, I thought it was Qihoo and Baidu, but it was Qihoo and Tencent. Well it was in 2015, but Tencent's offence was minor in comparison, so it is being tested in AV tests now. I have not seen Baidu being tested in a long time, I guess that confused me, sorry. :emoji_flushed:

Tencent, Qihoo antimalware firms are accused of cheating, stripped of rankings in antivirus tests

thank you for answering.

 

[roger_m]

I have not seen Baidu being tested in a long time

Well they abandoned their English language products in 2015. The website is still up, but there have been no product updates since then. It's no great loss in my opinion, as for some time now, Baidu has had major issues with false positives. When I scan installers at VirusTotal, it wrongly identifies a lot of them as Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.

 

[ZeroDay]

Though Zemana flags it as PUP, I would consider it safe to use, it's being certified by multiple labs (腾讯电脑管家_权威认证, if you trust them), just like as @TairikuOkami stated. However, you can never know what data it will transfer (but this is common for most vendors, to transfer data in the background). At least the Auto-SUD option is off by default (Auto report upon blocking suspected virus and Trojans - Cloud Protection Project).

Thank you. I have no problem with Chinese software or hardware so I might give it ago. I ordered a Xiaomi A2 phone yesterday that I will be using as my daily driver. I'll check TCPM out, thanks again.

 

[ZeroDay]

Well they abandoned their English language products in 2015. The website is still up, but there have been no product updates since then. It's no great loss in my opinion, as for the some time now, Baidu has had major issues with false positives. When I scan installers at VirusTotal, it wrongly identifies a lot of them as Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.

I've noticed that too.

 

[low L!fe]

i think Avast or Microsoft

 

[military]

1. Kaspersky
2. Avast

 

[jackuars]

Last day for nominations

 

[StrikeFIN]

BD Free, simply most easy to use AV, got bored with those settings mess with most AVs, since summer, been using BD Free snd been happy.

 

[noob guy]

KSC Free