The Worst AV You've Ever Used?

Yoda

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Jul 26, 2017
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In my school years 90, the school computers lived infected with Stoned Angelina, always coming back, the tools they had to remove were VirusScan and Norton.
I still remember McAfee's for DOS and around my house I still have Norton v1.0 in floppy discs that -I guess- are not working anymore :)
Good Old times... :rolleyes:
 

Winter Soldier

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Back in the 90's my default solutions were McAfee's Viruscan and F-Prot on DOS... nothing escaped them :)
Yeah I remember F-Prot as an excellent product from Iceland (I don't know about it now).
The developers team was preparing the signatures with paranoid precision, those were the times where the signatures made the difference, and BB was just beginning ;)
 

bribon77

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I think we have improved many of the Avs today are very well as the case of Norton that was very heavy a slab I would say I,Emsisoft old Squared with engine Ikarius, had a few false positives are tremendous, panda was unusable leaving the system dead.
 
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BearHug

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Jun 9, 2017
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AVG(a few years ago) and AVIRA for being bloatwares. Kaspersky for destroying my Windows 7, had to reinstall. Bitdefender 2015 which also destroyed my windows. Zonealarm for missing a drive-by download infection. Norton(a few years ago) missing a malware named 'love is all' in system32, and detected by a ClamAV scan.:D
I think You have the Worst Experience with AVs!:p:D
 

ispx

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Jun 21, 2017
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& after 8 pages the winner is :rolleyes:

i think we have a tie between iobit & quick heal :p
 
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gery79

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Jun 21, 2011
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i was in love with AVG and still am but recently it is disappointing me big time. It reverted itself from AVG IS into AVG free and although the support fixed it within minutes this is a no go for me . In terms of heavy and really worst ones i remember Comodo AV. And ZoneAlarm which was a godzilla . McAfee is and was big even bitdefender is huge. The worst is ..... well all of them
 
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varanjith

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Aug 16, 2013
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The worst i've used is Avira, but that was long back. Got infected heavily and lost many important files and photos, the reason I backup the important files in cloud nowadays. Now using kaspersky and it's good in my opinion
 

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