What is better Panda free antivirus or ad-aware free?

[2010barba]

Hello Forum!

This is my first post here and I hope I get it right.
Practically I want them to tell me their opinions on which is better between "Panda free antivirus and ad-adware free antivirus"

The so short djeo to be understood and be easy to answer

A Salu2! from Argentina!

 

[JD15]

They used to be great, I used it in the past; was close to Malwarebytes in terms of utility. Then it got bloated and heavier like a mountain. That's just my opinion, I was able to enjoy their gold age, where Ad-Aware was great.

http://malwaretips.com/threads/lavasofts-new-scam-artist-owners.3279/

I agree regarding Ad-Aware being heavy on the system.

 

[2010barba]

Ready thank you very much for your comments! They helped me a lot!
I have just one more question: Avira has proactive protection?

Un Salu2!

 

[Enju]

Ready thank you very much for your comments! They helped me a lot!
I have just one more question: Avira has proactive protection?

Un Salu2!

Only on 32bit systems, otherwise the only zero-day protection is their cloud.

 

[Cats-4_Owners-2]

Ready thank you very much for your comments! They helped me a lot!
I have just one more question: Avira has proactive protection?

Un Salu2!

Si (Yes) it does.

Although the following is a somewhat dated post, it's wording was more direct than Avira's description.

"Proactive protection is a method used by antivirus, antimalware or antispyware to prevent or block infection. For example, real-time monitoring by security tools to watch the computer for malicious activity and on-access scanning to ensure no malicious files are running, executed or copied are called proactive protection. A firewall program is also using proactive protection to prevent attacks or intrusions into a network."

Source: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/80172.aspx

 

[macflague]

Free Panda for me
if you seek something else: Baidu / Qihoo 360 TS / for free are very well

 

[OokamiCreed]

I would recommend Panda. For me detecting adware is a must and I believe Panda is better at it than Ad-Aware (which uses Bitdefender). As @JD15 said, not many AV's detect adware as it's debatable whether or not adware is malicious or not (personally I think it is). I don't like either (Panda or Ad-Aware) enough to actually use them. I just believe Panda does a much better job. Panda's web blocking is also very good and is far lighter on the system than Ad-Aware.

 

[Korora]

I'd have to say Panda, Ad-aware come's close to it but Panda is better.

 

[JakeXPMan]

Panda is the wiser and more effective choice !

Ad Aware Antivirus, I have never tried because of the so-so tests I seen, and news I read.

Lavasoft was great when I used their "adaware" program 10 years ago for scanning removing MRUs and tracking cookies. It was my "Malwarebytes" back then. It was not turned into an Antivirus yet.