Serious Discussion Which AV are you using and why did you choose this one ??

[Jonny Quest]

ESET Premium on 3 Windows PC's and my new Samsung Galaxy A35 phone.

What I'm liking about it (last 2 months) is the: Great performance (low system impact) Stability (no glitches) Excellent protection (see link) Features and Settings (multiple settings, Running Processes/Network Inspector/LiveGuard/Full screen mode etc.) Clean looking UI/Overview panel and a Nice portal with plenty of useful information.

If you go to their forum, how many issues do you see in a day or a week, very few.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

ESET Premium on 3 Windows PC's and my new Samsung Galaxy A35 phone.

What I'm liking about it (last 2 months) is the: Great performance (low system impact) Stability (no glitches) Excellent protection (see link) Features and Settings (multiple settings, Running Processes/Network Inspector/LiveGuard/Full screen mode etc.) Clean looking UI/Overview panel and a Nice portal with plenty of useful information.

If you go to their forum, how many issues do you see in a day or a week, very little.

Eset isn't the cheapest av but us definitely worth it and those that need free solutions there are a ton of free solutions available that aren't less powerful but except Kaspersky free no other one has the same balance of security , performance, false positives that eset has and you can technically put polices and set aggressive mod to harden it (I use it on mostly default settings)

 

[nickstar1]

AVG Internet Security. Top protection, very cheap and very light.

Avg is indeed the better product of Avast and Norton it seems to be very untouched by advertisements which is not the situation for norton and avast. I'm wondering if the company had to sign an agreement with the old AVG owners that they could not bloat it with advertisements?

 

[bazang]

"Maxed-Out" native Windows security on Windows 11 Pro and using a Standard User Account (SUA).

The system has been pentested multiple times locally and remotely, and one particular pentester named "Panda" reacted this way. Last I heard the system pentest engagement sent Panda so far down the rabbit hole that he was sucking his thumb in a corner at a national psychiatric hospital.

 

[Shadowra]

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It's Panda Dome when I test it, I recognize it

 

[bazang]

It's Panda Dome when I test it, I recognize it

Angry Panda. Bad Panda.

 

[partha_roy]

Avg is indeed the better product of Avast and Norton it seems to be very untouched by advertisements which is not the situation for norton and avast. I'm wondering if the company had to sign an agreement with the old AVG owners that they could not bloat it with advertisements?

A great sleek interface too in my view. Absolutely love AVG.

 

[Jonny Quest]

ESET Premium on 3 Windows PC's and my new Samsung Galaxy A35 phone.

What I'm liking about it (last 2 months) is the: Great performance (low system impact) Stability (no glitches) Excellent protection (see link) Features and Settings (multiple settings, Running Processes/Network Inspector/LiveGuard/Full screen mode etc.) Clean looking UI/Overview panel and a Nice portal with plenty of useful information.

If you go to their forum, how many issues do you see in a day or a week, very few.

I forgot to mention these options come in handy once in a while.

 

[simmerskool]

"Maxed-Out" native Windows security on Windows 11 Pro and using a Standard User Account (SUA).

The system has been pentested multiple times locally and remotely, and one particular pentester named "Panda" reacted this way. Last I heard the system pentest engagement sent Panda so far down the rabbit hole that he was sucking his thumb in a corner at a national psychiatric hospital.

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yeah but he's smashing a Macintosh...?

 

[bazang]

yeah but he's smashing a Macintosh...?

Panda - blind with rage - went berserk, indiscriminately destroying even video props.

 

[ncage]

At the AV level I primarily use bitdefender. I always tell myself i'm going to look into some other solutions but I always seem to get great deals on it. There are a variety of things I really like
1. Enteprisy home management system (i manage a lot of computers for family & i really like their management interface for home users).
2. Overall i think bitdefender's protection is great.
3. The mac client doesn't try to do all the crazy crap that windows clients do so its a LOT less buggy. When i tried Kaspersky for mac it was a hot mess. Avast killed my network timemachine backups for some reason.

People always complain about it being buggy but for the 5 or more years i've used it I can't complain on that end. What i can complain about is memory usage. I've seen it use well over 1GB of usage in lots of cases. CPU usage is pretty low but memory is not.

I need multi client support ( have both macs, IOS, & android clients) & lots of licenses (have many VMs running). So the family licenses (15) is great.

Might look at either SHP or norton in the future.

 

[Nevi]

The WARP app is buggy. Do you use WARP or the DNS connect feature in the WARP app?

Eset isn't the cheapest av but us definitely worth it and those that need free solutions there are a ton of free solutions available that aren't less powerful but except Kaspersky free no other one has the same balance of security , performance, false positives that eset has and you can technically put polices and set aggressive mod to harden it (I use it on mostly default settings)

Never buy Eset from their own site. I have a bona fide place in Denmark, where you can get EIS for 17 $, and NOD 32 even cheaper. Eset's own site take way too much for their product.

Køb ESET Internet Security til 1 enhed i 1 år hos e-Gear.dk

ESET Internet Security er prisvindende sikkerhedssystem som beskytter dig mod trusler fra internettet. Køb ESET til 1 enhed i 1 år på e-Gear.dk

e-gear.dk

 

[Harputlu]

Never buy Eset from their own site. I have a bona fide place in Denmark, where you can get EIS for 17 $, and NOD 32 even cheaper. Eset's own site take way too much for their product.

Køb ESET Internet Security til 1 enhed i 1 år hos e-Gear.dk

ESET Internet Security er prisvindende sikkerhedssystem som beskytter dig mod trusler fra internettet. Køb ESET til 1 enhed i 1 år på e-Gear.dk

e-gear.dk

In my country it's 22 dollars.(nod32)

Køb ESET Internet Security til 1 enhed i 1 år hos e-Gear.dk

ESET Internet Security er prisvindende sikkerhedssystem som beskytter dig mod trusler fra internettet. Køb ESET til 1 enhed i 1 år på e-Gear.dk

e-gear.dk

159 dkk : 22 dolar

 

[cc207]

I use Eset Nod 32 on my computer because it uses very few resources. What's more, Eset has run error-free so far. I also have WHHLight as a supplement to the scanner.

 

[Harputlu]

I use Eset Nod 32 on my computer because it uses very few resources. What's more, Eset has run error-free so far. I also have WHHLight as a supplement to the scanner.

It is not actually under-resourced. It doesn't show up in the task manager. This was said to be the case in a different thread. This applies to ram

 

[Dimitriss]

Bitdefender total, security Eset smart security

 

[Nunzio_77]

At the AV level I primarily use bitdefender. I always tell myself i'm going to look into some other solutions but I always seem to get great deals on it. There are a variety of things I really like
1. Enteprisy home management system (i manage a lot of computers for family & i really like their management interface for home users).
2. Overall i think bitdefender's protection is great.
3. The mac client doesn't try to do all the crazy crap that windows clients do so its a LOT less buggy. When i tried Kaspersky for mac it was a hot mess. Avast killed my network timemachine backups for some reason.

People always complain about it being buggy but for the 5 or more years i've used it I can't complain on that end. What i can complain about is memory usage. I've seen it use well over 1GB of usage in lots of cases. CPU usage is pretty low but memory is not.

I need multi client support ( have both macs, IOS, & android clients) & lots of licenses (have many VMs running). So the family licenses (15) is great.

Might look at either SHP or norton in the future.

RAM usage shouldn't be a big problem if you have a lot of RAM available. However, RAM usage makes it quick to block any malicious processes that the sooner they stop, the better to avoid damaging your PC. Also, RAM usage, if you have enough, doesn't slow down your PC usage unlike CPU usage or hard disk read/write (but if you have an SSD, this isn't a problem).
I would say Bitdefender's protection is one of the best at the moment.

 

[SumTingWong]

Windows Defender for me

I don't like spending more than $30 on an antivirus software. Bitdefender doesn't do any good deal for a few months now.

 

[Nunzio_77]

Windows Defender for me

I don't like spending more than $30 on an antivirus software. Bitdefender doesn't do any good deal for a few months now.

You might want to consider the Bitdefender Free option which is still excellent protection.

 

[Miravi]

Windows Defender for me

I don't like spending more than $30 on an antivirus software. Bitdefender doesn't do any good deal for a few months now.

Newegg is running a good deal on Bitdefender Internet Security. 3 PCs / 1 year for $13.99: https://www.newegg.com/bitdefender-internet-security-2019-1-year-3pcs-download/p/N82E16832719256