The Worst AV You've Ever Used?

[samit]

Comodo. It deleted all the files in my computer by detecting it as something generic. When I mentioned about it in their Facebook page, they blocked me from there .

 

[legendcampos]

Back in 80s (And early 90s) , McAfee and Norton was the top av programs (for DOS and Win3.1).
Now they are like dinosaurs... Old, huge and slow...

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.

 

[GonzitoVir]

Back in 80s (And early 90s) , McAfee and Norton was the top av programs (for DOS and Win3.1).
Now they are like dinosaurs... Old, huge and slow...

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

 

[Yoda]

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...

 

[mlnevese]

Good Old times...

Back in the 90's my default solutions were McAfee's Viruscan and F-Prot on DOS... nothing escaped them

 

[Winter Soldier]

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

 

[Node]

I use iobit malware fighter and it's performance is increased because of using bitdefender engine inside it.

You'd be better off using 360 Total Security as an alternative.

 

[bribon77]

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.

 

[BearHug]

Windows Defender

Really?

 

[BearHug]

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.

I think You have the Worst Experience with AVs!

 

[ispx]

& after 8 pages the winner is

i think we have a tie between iobit & quick heal

 

[gery79]

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

 

[Mehdi Mohammadi]

Avira is slow in cleaning. Bitdefender has lots of bugs.

 

[ForgottenSeer 65219]

Avira is slow in cleaning. Bitdefender has lots of bugs.

How you use Norton here ? ( in IRAN )
We are banned.

 

[varanjith]

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

 

[blackice]

Holy resurrected thread, Batman!

 

[roger_m]

Isn't Ashampoo that German company which basically ripped off Emsisoft Anti-Malware?

No, it's a licensed rebrand.

 

[gery79]

i had the worst experience with bitdefender,,,,

 

[I3rYcE]

Panda.

 

[DDE_Server]

Really Missed your funny replies frogboy hope you are rest in peace
for me worst one was Ashampo AV.i think it has been discontinued