Anti Virus Software

tintin82

tintin82

tintin82

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Hello,

I am looking to change my anti virus software and looking for advice to what's best. I currently use avast but find it way to intrusive. Even when i think i have all the automatic san features disabled, something happens and it all restarts.

Just looking for a simple yet effective scanner that i can run when i want and not have the multitude of features that i dont need.

Thanks for any help!
 
for most the free microsoft one would be fine MSE, everytime anyone posts which ones better mine or yours etc they will link and give reasons why they think one is better than another, almost any is better than none, most won't find everything and it all depends on what you do and how you take care of what you are doing
 
Avast isn't intrusive at all. Select Gaming mode and never see it again.

MSE has security holes, as highlighted in another thread recently.
 
gillywibble said:
Avast isn't intrusive at all. Select Gaming mode and never see it again.

MSE has security holes, as highlighted in another thread recently.
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All AV have security holes. The very definition of AV is to wrap a thin veneer of tin foil over your PC in some misguided hope that it will protect you.
 
no matter how good your AV program is, if your using windows and is patched upto date or not there is always security holes or bugs in the code that virus writers use, so will be always be playing catch up to fix.

for me i'd use one with a small footprint, less resources hog etc and keep off rubbish sites and get used to cleaning pc every time you come off online and run a good malware program as well as, as 2 programs tend to be better than one
 
theheyes said:
Oh, that thread. I suppose you could describe it as an exploitable security hole but its not how i would phrase it.
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Them security tests are always hilarious though. They just have a test suite full of past threats (some decades old) and expect AV to pick them all up because they're "old threats".

There's no consideration that maybe MSE deliberately doesn't want to add a load of old virus signatures from the 1990s to its database for performance reasons? Afterall, AV scanning technology is all about picking the best set of compromises. There's no getting away from compromise when AV is concerned. And hell, why don't they throw in a few zero-day threats and see how the AV react to those? ;)

All AV are fundamentally flawed as a concept. They're all woefully out of date (and by that I literally do mean 10+ years) in terms of the current state-of-the-art in security technology.
 
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The real flaw is in over-expectation of (and therefore inappropriate reliance on) antivirus software. And that goes for any security related feature - the vast majority of which have compromises of their own.
 
tintin82 said:
Hello,

I am looking to change my anti virus software and looking for advice to what's best. I currently use avast but find it way to intrusive. Even when i think i have all the automatic san features disabled, something happens and it all restarts.

Just looking for a simple yet effective scanner that i can run when i want and not have the multitude of features that i dont need.

Thanks for any help!
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It's a preference thing for most users on what they prefer,AV is another added layer of protection/security,however I do like Panda Cloud AV free version,small footprint,very light on resources as well, simple to use http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/forHome/ .
 
I started using the Panda product this past week and since installing it I haven't heard anything from it but it seems to be keeping up to date and so forth.

To be fair, Defender appears to do a good job too but one never knows if there are no infections because none were encountered or if threats were countered by the AV software.
 
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