Longest Antivirus Trial Version ?

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What is the longest Antivirus trial version i can get ? as my 99 day Eset is about to expire and i dont think Avg or Mse are good enough but better than nothing
 
Avast is working fine for me, free yearly licence. MSE is actually pretty good as well, I don't see anything wrong with it :p.
 
I've used MSE for ages now & it killed me stone dead then revived me with electric shocks that shot out the side of my case. Despite all this though I've never caught a Virus & neither has my PC. Think it's a bit black magic & all that but perfectly fine to use on this planet anyway. I highly recommend it.
 
MSE consistently fails to score well in independent tests, and I've had two machines compromised by it (before I learnt and moved away). The trojans it let through were actually a year old, and I submitted the sample - and reported the miss - to MS. They replied that if I'd paid for their enterprise endpoint product, then that'd have detected it and had done for 12 months.... I'm a home user. :-/

After that, and its consistently low scores in detection in testing, I moved to better pastures. Avast has allowed machines to be compromised badly at least three times I know of in the last 12 months (family) and so now I only ever recommend Comodo. It's free, has HIPS, behaviour analysis, firewall, 0-day protection and an auto-deny sandbox and even if you got infected your machine would restore on reboot due to the sandboxing. Fantastic product for free.

Webroot do a free 180 day trial if you'd prefer, and it's a very high scoring detection engine based in the cloud. Recommended, but not as good as Comodo. You can get the 180 day trial version HERE.
 
Rainmaker many of those tests that score MSE low aren't real-world tests they're lab based which is deeply flawed to begin with. I've little confidence in them.

Personally for free I'd recommend Avast or MSE plus a bit of common sense.

For starters never use an admin user as your regular account and leaving UAC on, two things most people with malware/viruses seem to have a tendancy to forget.
 
Halfmad said:
Rainmaker many of those tests that score MSE low aren't real-world tests they're lab based which is deeply flawed to begin with. I've little confidence in them.

Personally for free I'd recommend Avast or MSE plus a bit of common sense.

For starters never use an admin user as your regular account and leaving UAC on, two things most people with malware/viruses seem to have a tendancy to forget.
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But given the rest of my post, where MS admitted MSE is over a year out of date compared to their other paid-for products, miss trojans EVERY other AV on virustotal spotted, I've less confidence in them than internationally recognised AV tests. :p
 
Always use freeware AV. There's no need to pay a dime for protection.

Combine the above with a decent browser (Firefox or Chrome) & Secunia PSI.
 
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