PCMag - The Best Free Antivirus for 2015

[Petrovic]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp

 

[Koroke San]

MBAE is not an antivirus * facepalm *.

 

[Oxygen]

LOL.

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit isn't a antivirus.

 

[yigido]

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit ?
I see better now, I cannot imagine their knwoledge about security softwares!
Thank you for the post Petrovic, this shows that childs administer this site.

 

[Av Gurus]

360is don't have phishing & malware URL detection?!?!?

This test is a joke!

 

[midzan21]

No, today isn't April Fools, but this test is early Aprils Fools joke. For real.

 

[Paul Lee]

Very disappointing coming from such a reputable website...

 

[FreddyFreeloader]

360is don't have phishing & malware URL detection?!?!?

This test is a joke!

That review was in July, 2013, too.

 

[Piteko21]

what a joke, if not believed in PCMag then after that lost all credibility.

malwarebites anti exploit an antivirus?


I think that Bitdefender free has an behavier - based detection called as " B-Have" plus Active virus Control:

 

[Alexstrasza]

MBAE is not an AV. The Malwarebytes folks never made anything AV related lol.

IMHO PC Mag isn't a very trustworthy source at times.

 

[Ramona]

No Tencent or Baidu, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit isn't like HitmanPro.Alert

 

[Sr. Normal]

I do not understand the high score Adaware free , to me, it did not work , I've used it for two months and if not for my firewall my computer had been infected repeatedly

 

[Billcomputerman123]

I do not understand the high score Adaware free , to me, it did not work , I've used it for two months and if not for my firewall my computer had been infected repeatedly

i kinda like ad-aware free

 

[david8]

This is funny. Bitdefender free has behavior blocker.
I don't understand MBAE which is not antivitus is third?
Avast has website rating. Test of URL detection is incomplete.
And finally: Panda is best? WTF?
Really a bad joke

 

[Exterminator]

I could see if they used the term "Antivirus" loosely as meaning "free security". However then why not include Malwarebytes Antimalware or at least MBAM free instead of anti-exploit.You could put many other better free software in this considering all the comparison Features.
Many of these are old reviews used for a 2015 side by side comparison ?? Ad-aware free and no Avira free ??
I guess you have to just take it for what its worth! A free comparison!

 

[Janl92l]

just seen the picture. Avast no behavour base detection? So what is deepscreen with NG? and avg no behavourbase detection? mbam exploit as antivirus? wtf lol,this test is a pure joke. i dont even read the artikel.

 

[Azure]

It seems that there wasn't much thought in making that article. It looks like they simply sorted the reviews into the following categories:
1. security
2. rating (high rating -> low rating)
And just make the article with the first 9 free products.

It's bad enough that they consider MBAE an antivirus. But to rank it as 3rd place. Wow.

 

[Billcomputerman123]

i only see 6 good avs in that list

This is funny. Bitdefender free has behavior blocker.
I don't understand MBAE which is not antivitus is third?
Avast has website rating. Test of URL detection is incomplete.
And finally: Panda is best? WTF?
Really a bad joke

panda is not that bad at all its a heavy weight contender to avast avg avira for free avs

 

[hjlbx]

PCMag shows an aggregate AV test lab score of 5 for BitDefender Free.

BitDefender Free has never been tested by any AV labs... ever... as far as I can find.

In any case, the argument is the BitDefender Free uses the same technology as BitDefender's flag-ship products.

While that may be true, I remain unconvinced of BitDefender Free's capabilities... maybe it would have made a difference if it would work correctly on my W8.1 AMD system.

If I had to choose one from the comparison, it would be Avast! Free.

 

[Billcomputerman123]

from that comparison i would chose
1 avg
2 avast
3 panda
4 ad-aware
5 comodo