The Best AV You've Ever Used?

[R2D2]

Dr.web is a customizable av, with clean GUI and a good firewall.They have an active forum you can visit it,they don't have fancy features like safe money pass manager or game mod,its pure av

A simple solution can definitely work for me. I don't need many of the bells & whistles that are a part of Norton/Bitdefender/Kaspersky's premium security suites.
Emsisoft is another alternative.

Qihoo 360 won't find a place on my PCs for the same reason as Kaspersky. For that matter even though I have licenses to utility software published by a company from a particular country in NE Asia (hint: starts with C ) I chose to uninstall & stay far away after I noticed some funny network activity by a particular ET-phone-home kind of module. A refund request was turned down for vague reasons. The very same reasons are present on another so called "Canadian" utility software publisher's website. Hint: there was a give away of their utility software recently.

It's time to tread carefully.

 

[Yoda]

I am currently using Avira...
My previous one was Comodo, but after failing to intercept a significant number of viruses I switched to Avira.
(I kept Comodo as a firewall only)
Before Comodo I was using McAfee for many years. Nut Now it is too heavy and slow...

 

[L S]

For me is combined :
Avast & Malwarebytes .

Before I used Emsisoft - and it's very good software too.

 

[Bergo]

Emsisoft
ESET
Kaspersky
GData
Avast (only older version)
F-Secure
Webroot

 

[Kongo]

F-Secure and Emsisoft. I also love Webroot unlike many others, cause it's so damn light and the Protection would be enough for me still.

 

[CyberTech]

Avast

 

[elquenunca]

bitdefender

 

[[correlate]]

Cylance.

 

[Step 1]

Emsisoft and Norton here

 

[CyberPanther]

Bitdefender and F-secure

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

Symantec Endpoint protection managed client.

 

[tipo]

eset for me. tested a whole lot of av`s but everytime kept returning to eset. i don`t know what kinda magic they do but i like their software alot.

 

[tipo]

Symantec Endpoint protection managed client.

good av but keeps driving me mad with the false positives. they`re sonar is nice but everything that it is new or not well known is flagged. nice ui, a whole lot of settings to play with and alot of shields. :thumbs up:

 

[Nagisa]

I find them using false protection.

What do you mean by false protection?

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

good av but keeps driving me mad with the false positives. they`re sonar is nice but everything that it is new or not well known is flagged. nice ui, a whole lot of settings to play with and alot of shields. :thumbs up:

true.
I usually use Kaspersky/ ESET for friends since low false positives are more important for them.

 

[Dave Russo]

1.Kaspersky Total Security with TAM enabled is the only program I trust as a standalone product
2. Symantec Endpoint unmanaged with Voodoshield (used to have HMPA but changed)
3.Eset internet security with Voodoshield

 

[Nagisa]

what i mean .. Antiviruses that use excessive telemetry such as Avast, Avg, Avira and others, annoying posters as if they were spyware instead of an antivirus. An antivirus is there to protect you from malware, that is its function, not to fill you with advertising and send your data to third parties.
Sorry but that's my personal opinion of free antivirus.
If I had to use an av free it would be.
1.- Kaspersky cloud free
2.- Bitdefender free
3. Windows Defender.
They are the only antivirus that does not fill your system with telemetry and alerts
this is my personal opinion.
Thanks.

So your statement "free AVs give false sense of protection" is more like "some AVs give false sense of protection"?

 

[arsenaloyal]

For me it is ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition Version 4.2.76.0, been using this along with Outpost firewall Pro since 2009 in one of my old Windows 7 system, still going strong for me, although its nearing EOL this December.

 

[South Park]

When I was on Windows XP, Avast Free 4.x protected me from some nasties embedded in a normally safe website that was hacked. Since Avast became very buggy around v6, I've used several free and paid AVs, but the one I keep going back to is Windows Defender, simply because it works (no infections found w/ 2nd-opinion scans) and gives hardly any FPs (only one that I can recall, and it was outdated Nirsoft software).

 

[TheBlueCreeper512]

I only ever used free AVs before, but the best one definitely has to be Kaspersky Security Cloud Free, it's arguably the best free AV right now with tons of different protection modules and has the same engine as its paid counterparts.