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Wraith

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So guys this setup will be for one of my friends who is just an average Joe. He had his laptop infected with all sorts of malware and god knows what I had to do to restore the laptop. I flashed the BIOS, Secure Erased the HDD using Parted Magic, reset the Router to its defaults and then installed Windows 10 Home 64-bit ver 1809. I need to minimise the attack vectors. So far I've installed SysHardener(applied the tweaks)and OSArmor 1.4.2(just in case some malware manages to revert the changes made by SH). I had installed hard_configurator but it was too much of a hassle for my friend since he is unable to execute his softwares which he is downloading from the web. Maybe I'll try Comodo Firewall but that too I think will be too much for my friend since he is not so geeky. So it comes down to Avast free or Kaspersky Free. I like the System Watcher in KAF but it only jumps into action after any malicious activity is performed. I'm considering Avast just because of the Hardened Mode(Aggressive) since it will prevent any unknown file from executing. So what's your opinion guys? In this scenario which one should I choose? Avast or Kaspersky?
 

bayasdev

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every opinion, for example, I never thought avast was good, I've seen many infected with PC using updated avast, Avast is very bad against puppies and local malware, this is also very important.
When I was a kid, I saw many laptops infested of malware/adware running NOD32, Avast, AVG (when they were an independent company) and Panda Cloud Free
 

The Ordynary

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Apr 26, 2020
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Every AV has its pros and cons.i read in some forums that many people have instability issues and a lot of BSOD using KS and also have performance issue using BD. No solutions is complete.
but in my personal opinion avast may be good AV but shady to some extinct and use dirty methods for income isn't trustful as a company and had a lot of privacy issues
also last time i tried them before long time ago "may be 5 or 6 years" i have face performance issues with them
yes, every antivirus has pros and cons, only avast has more cons than pro, Sophos is very heavy even though very good signatures, KSC and Bitdefender free are never heavy.
 
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DDE_Server

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you told me that before and i told you the answer for AV the philosophy should defer ;) ;)
The important /confidential information it is never on a system that goes online. And i tell not care because who can trust. Microsoft? google? FB? Kaspersky? And this i tell everytime. Have smart spies and stupid spies (Avast) :)

 
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DDE_Server

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Not at all... If i should chosen between free solution i am in a nightmare.
1. bitdefender have high ram consumaption.
2. kaspersky is k ( i hate much the delay when start)
3. secureaplus have good whitelist features, but some universal av databases for me are more a malus then a plus
4. sophos is heavy
5. avast have some privacy problems
6. avg same
7. avira was good in signature but now with investicorp should be tested
8. quihoo privacy problems and much popup

Honestly my dream would be an comodo cloud av with comodo lookup instead of valkirie. Easy, no bloat, effective
 

stefanos

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I will hope so, the avira is doing very well in independent tests, it is among the best constantly, avira just needs a behavior module to be practically unbeatable.
Have not web protection ( free version) and paid version is very weak. Have not BB. Have good signatures but not like eset Kaspersky. is a very light antivirus with moderate protection
 

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