Battle Is it a good combo to replace Avast?

[Captain Awesome]

Avira Free+NVT EXE Radar Pro(Lockdown)+Windows Firwall Advance

I am looking substitute for Avast.

I also thinking about Bitdefender Free

 

[SumTingWong]

Thank you everybody.
I will go with@Umbra and use WD(Max Protection) with NVTERP(Lockdown).

Another optional is Windows Defender + VoodooShield free with AI protection and Virustotal.com assists. You might want to throw in Sandboxie free for sandboxing as well.

 

[mekelek]

Why Avira Pro?
Avira Free has everything that pro has except flexible update time,no Ads..

cause you only get their static sigs with the Free and you get the cloud sigs with Pro.

 

[ZeroDay]

If you just want an AV for sigs alone to combine with VS, NVT, CF Avira free is a good choice probably one of the best because you haven't got any zero day protection in Avira free that could conflict with your main zero day protection. But Avira Pro AV has a very good cloud and you can pick it up cheaply. But WD is perfect to team up with some solid zero day protection. If you go into group policy editor and manually change WD settings it becomes an extremely good layer of protection. I did some testing with WD tweaked via GPE last week and I was very surprised at it's protection it was impressive.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

ConfigureDefender/ConfigureDefender_1.0.0.1.zip at master · AndyFul/ConfigureDefender · GitHub -can't open the link.

Try this. AndyFul/ConfigureDefender

 

[L0ckJaw]

Bitdefender already fixed issue with Windows Update a long time ago. I have no issue at all on my 2 PC with Bitdefender Free installed the last 2 Windows updates.

Sadly its not fixed . One month ago it kept breaking Windows Updates. They refunded my money because no fix for it yet.

 

[Nestor]

Sadly its not fixed . One month ago it kept breaking Windows Updates. They refunded my money because no fix for it yet.

I've be running Bitdefender Internet Security for many years, although I am planning to change it with Kaspersky or SHP. I faced this problem (breaking Windows update) just once, a year before. Since then, no problem.

 

[Captain Awesome]

+1. Nice! Add CF?

CF is my favourite but this time NO.