The Worst AV You've Ever Used?

[TheMalwareMaster]

Back in the days when I didn't have any knowledge of computing (Windows xp times) my family used AVG free and once a year the PC got infected. I agree with Iobit Malware Fighter for the worst one, but I have never used it on a host machine

 

[Winter Soldier]

I'm going to be a "fanboy" here or quote any particular product, every product has its strengths and weaknesses, even Kaspersky...

Agreed, wise post!

 

[Prayag]

panda for me.
The worst av ever.
Without cloud,it isn't any good but a resource hog.
Its scans speed are slower than a snail.
It can't even detect years old trojan,virtually any av was able to detect,when i am offline.Even iobit was able to detect it but can't remove.
Also,mbam is no good.
It was also able to detect that threat but can't remove it.
Actually, i haven't seen mbam to successfully remove a nasty threat that it could find.
Therefore,I can't recommend it as a second opinion scanner.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

Might i add PC Matic? Never tried it myself and i know the thread title says AV's you have used but I'm sure its up there with some of the worst.

 

[RoboMan]

Immunet. It felt literally like using a mosquito net on the front door to avoid an elephant to come in.

 

[tonibalas]

A few years back many av's weren't in matter of performance.
This is the reason why i began to test av's, mostly to see if they have improved their performance.
As for protection most known av's were ok so my focus was and is performance.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Might i add PC Matic? Never tried it myself and i know the thread title says AV's you have used but I'm sure its up there with some of the worst.

PC Matic is an "awesome" example of marketing techniques, which is its only strength.

 

[TheMalwareMaster]

panda for me.
The worst av ever.
Without cloud,it isn't any good but a resource hog.
Its scans speed are slower than a snail.
It can't even detect years old trojan,virtually any av was able to detect,when i am offline.Even iobit was able to detect it but can't remove.
Also,Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is no good.
It was also able to detect that threat but can't remove it.
Actually, i haven't seen Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to successfully remove a nasty threat that it could find.
Therefore,I can't recommend it as a second opinion scanner.

I forgot that one! Horrible results in the Malware Hub last year

 

[Pat MacKnife]

The worst was Zyllia about 10 years ago, a real nightmare it was, everything icluding windows process were marked as a virus! uninstalled after 5 minutes.

 

[darko999]

ESET is a bit heavier than some competitors on default settings, you can edit them to make it very very light tho.

 

[gin]

try kaspersky last time and my system freeze every startup, great protection but worst resource
curently using avast and happy with it

 

[mekelek]

try kaspersky last time and my system freeze every startup, great protection but worst resource
curently using avast and happy with it

would you mind telling us your pc you had that issue?

 

[gin]

would you mind telling us your pc you had that issue?

i'm using win 7 64bit sp1

 

[mekelek]

i'm using win 7 64bit sp1

no i meant CPU and RAM.
Kaspersky can be heavy but having "hanging" when you launch a process seem to be a bit of a stretch.

 

[Winter Soldier]

i'm using win 7 64bit sp1

Strange thing Kasp. freezes the boot, are you sure it was the problem, perhaps some incompatibility or other problems?

 

[gin]

no i meant CPU and RAM.

amd a8 with 8gb ram

 

[mekelek]

amd a8 with 8gb ram

that seems extremely weird, shouldn't have happened.

 

[gin]

Strange thing Kasp. freezes the boot, are you sure it was the problem, perhaps some incompatibility or other problems?

yeah i'm sure , turn off kaspersky auto run fix the problem

edit : i mean hanging after startup, not in boot

 

[norman]

the worst for me, is mcafee.

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

ASC Ultimate, worst ever created