Which is the best Antivirus for Real-Time protection (Heuristic / Behaviour)?

[Sunshine-boy]

Hello everyone
please suggest an antivirus which provides the best real-time protection
If you vote please also add a reaction under here as of why

 

[nastavnikhe]

I think F Secure IS is a great choice for protection. Very light,Very Good Lab Results.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I vote based on the full potentials of the AVs and the real results according to my experience:
best paid AVs: Kaspersky (tweaked or with TAM), Emsisoft with tweaked settings to allow only safe apps
best free: comodo firewall or CIS with proactive, Avast with fully tweaked and hardened mode + disabled windows script host

resource usage: comodo < avast < emsisoft < kaspersky

easy to use for novice users: kaspersky > avast > emsisoft > comodo

heuristics: kaspersky >= emsisoft

BB: kaspersky and emsisoft. Both may fail in specific types of malware but maybe better than the other in other cases

 

[valvaris]

Voted: (Other)

Windows 10 CreatorsUpdate - Security Center (Windows Defender) + (Windows Firewall)

and ZyWall USG 50 AV(Kaspersky) / FW / IDS / Contentfilter

Works best in my System since the real prevention is HW Level on the ZyWall.

 

[ZeroDay]

Voted: (Other)

Windows 10 CreatorsUpdate - Security Center (Windows Defender) + (Windows Firewall)

and ZyWall USG 50 AV(Kaspersky) / FW / IDS / Contentfilter

Works best in my System since the real prevention is HW Level on the ZyWall.

That's a very impressive piece of kit you've got there.

 

[vinylmeister]

A German security expert, Mike Kuketz, posted a nice blog post today.

AntiVirus Scanner: More risk than protection? Snakeoil part 1

Antiviren-Scanner: Mehr Risiko als Schutz? – Snakeoil Teil1 • Kuketz IT-Security Blog

Well, post is in German, but you know how to help yourself

 

[Parsh]

Hey @public enemy, the results you're seeing here are for the best realtime protection in terms of Behavior Blocker and Heuristics, NOT the best effective/resultant realtime protection.

This can also be said from the fact that most users, including me, have voted for BD, Emsi, others, but Comodo has received lesser votes - because of the parameters mentioned to be considered (BB and Heur).
FYI many users here consider Comodo FW as one of the best (probably the best) protection though some of them might not be using it because of a few usability issues and bugs. It's tough, pretty tough to crack!

You can find many informative threads here on CFW or CIS and how to use it in Proactive mode for ultimate zero-day protection using its auto-sandbox and more.
You can find a famous CFW setup by @cruelsister here and check it out for yourself. Just keep away from CCAV for now.

 

[mekelek]

When the poll about the best real time protection doesn't have Kaspersky listed....

 

[mastermind]

kaspersky and bitdefender

 

[LahiruRajinda]

If your'e considering the best, it's Kaspersky no doubt. but each solution has its own ups and downs. for example, comdo fw can be combined with other solutions listed here and it will protect you in its own way. from what's listed here, i'll go with comodo,avast or bitdefender.

 

[Sunshine-boy]

When the poll about the best real time protection doesn't have Kaspersky listed....

alphabetical order

 

[Rajat]

Kaspersky or Vipre.

 

[shmu26]

Among the free AVs, Qihoo 360 has the strongest zero-day protection.

 

[darko999]

Emsisoft and ESET both have great real time protection.

 

[Razza]

In my own opinion the overall best for protection for the paid solutions are Kaspersky and Emsisoft not a lot between them.

Emsisoft got a very good behaviour blocker probably the best of them all but sometime's generate too many notifications might not be the best for a novice user coupled with Bitdefender signature's a very good product.

Kaspersky aslo a very good product don't know much about the behaviour blocker not realy tested that part of the product yet, Kaspersky Application Control which is quite good, i think the signature's in Kaspersky are a bit better than Bitdefender for some malwares.

 

[toto]

I believe that Kaspersky and Norton should be in the list

 

[Thirio]

Among the free AVs, Qihoo 360 has the strongest zero-day protection.

Baidu free also has some good zero day protection thanks to their heuristics and cloud detection. I agree Qihoo has strong zero day components, one of the best. I'm testing out Baidu right now and it's heuristics + cloud can detect very new threats which many vendors don't have signatures for. I uploaded some Heur detections from Baidu to VT just now which only "next-gen" antiviruses can detect at the moment (Endgame, Crowdstrike, Invincea, etc.)

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Svoll]

Voting for Emsisoft on my part after having tested a lot of AV and security suites. The reason Emsisoft comes out on top for me over others is the customer support, ease of installation and maintaince, how light it is on resources and it plays nicely with softwares/games/apps I used daily. It really has been a install and forget security suite for me.

I used to run multiple security suites to protect myself ( example, Emsisoft or other AV, zemana antilogger, Voodooshield, etc) but find that I am comfortable just using emsisoft internet security and it has protected.

 

[lobo001]

Hi. I choose Emsisoft, among other qualities, shines its behavior block ...

 

[HarborFront]

Baidu free also has some good zero day protection thanks to their heuristics and cloud detection. I agree Qihoo has strong zero day components, one of the best. I'm testing out Baidu right now and it's heuristics + cloud can detect very new threats which many vendors don't have signatures for. I uploaded some Heur detections from Baidu to VT just now which only "next-gen" antiviruses can detect at the moment (Endgame, Crowdstrike, Invincea, etc.)

Just my 2 cents.

Baidu AV is still 2015?

Baidu Antivirus 5.0

Is their AV and Internet Security Suite free?

 

[HarborFront]

Among the free AVs, Qihoo 360 has the strongest zero-day protection.

Are you referring to TS or TSE version?

But their definition updates is once a day if I'm not wrong. Too slow to provide effective protection. Hourly update would be nice.