just use a few anti-virus progs at same time

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with all the posts about anti virus programs....
cant i just use kasperspy, nod32 and avast at the same time??

If not-why cant we all agree that ONE of them is THE ONE to use? (i'm reading kasperspy from research?)

and what about windows defender and bit defender?

THIS IS DOING MY NUT IN NOW!!,
I'M DOING A NEW BUILD AND JUST WANT THE RIGHT ANTIVIRUS AND FIREWALL SOFTWARE ON THERE FROM THE START!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
 
Firstly, you cant really say one is the best, because there are so many, and some of the miss files that others dont so thats why no-one can agree but a lot of the people on the forums believe various to be great!

Using 3 AV's together can cause a lot of conflict, I reccomend not doing it! :D
 
had a funny feeling that conflict would be the first reply! :p

There has got to be one that is proven better than the rest all-round?
 
seretide said:
had a funny feeling that conflict would be the first reply! :p

There has got to be one that is proven better than the rest all-round?
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Taken from the sticky :

1a) MKS_Vir 2004 - 321/321 0 Missed - 100%
1b) eXtendia AVK - 321/321 0 Missed - 100%
2a) Kaspersky 5.0 - 320/321 1 Missed - 99.70% (with Extended Database ON)
2b) McAfee VirusScan 8.0 - 319/321 + 2 (2 found as joke programs - heuristically) - 99%
3) F-Secure - 319/321 2 Missed - 99.37%
4) GData AVK - 317/321 4 Missed - 98.75%
5) RAV + Norton (2 way tie) - 315/321 6 Missed - 98.13%
6) Dr.Web - 310/321 11 Missed - 96.57%
7) CommandAV + F-Prot + BitDefender (3 Way Tie) - 309/321 12 Missed - 96.26%
8) ETrust - 301/321 20 Missed - 93.76%
9) Trend - 300/321 21 Missed - 93.45%
10) Avast! Pro - 299/321 22 Missed - 93.14%
11) Panda - 298/321 23 Missed - 92.83%
12) Virus Buster - 290/321 31 Missed - 90.34%
13) KingSoft - 288/321 33 Missed - 89.71%
14) NOD32 - 285/321 36 Missed (results identical with or without advanced heuristics) - 88.78%
15) AVG Pro - 275/321 46 Missed - 85.66%
16) AntiVIR - 268/321 53 Missed - 83.48%
17) Antidote - 252/321 69 Missed - 78.50%
18) ClamWIN - 247/321 74 Missed - 76.94%
19) UNA - 222/321 99 Missed - 69.15%
20) Norman - 215/321 106 Missed - 66.97%
21) Solo - 182/321 139 Missed - 56.69%
22) Fire AV - 179/321 142 Missed - 55.76%
23) V3 Pro - 109/321 212 Missed - 33.95%
24) Per_AV - 75/321 - 246 Missed - 23.36%
25) Proland - 73/321 248 Missed - 22.74%
26) Sophos - 50/321 271 Missed - 15.57%
27) Hauri - 49/321 272 Missed - 15.26%
28) CAT Quickheal - 21/321 300 Missed - 6%
29) Vir_iT - 10/321 311 Missed - 3%
30) Ikarus - Crashed on first virus. - 0%

They were tests
 
My advice would be, use a firewall (or sit behind NAT if you are on a small, clean, LAN), set patches to automatic (or at least download/notify) and don't be a 'tard.

If you follow the first two bits, then all that remains are pebkac problems ;)
 
1a) MKS_Vir 2004 - 321/321 0 Missed - 100%
1b) eXtendia AVK - 321/321 0 Missed - 100%
2a) Kaspersky 5.0 - 320/321 1 Missed - 99.70% (with Extended Database ON)

so any of the above then!

seft- i will EVENTUALLY be behind my router,but not yet, so be using windows firewall -bad idea??

(being a 'tard!)-honestly-i haven got a clue what most of your post means!- NAT? patches? notify? pebkac??? :confused:
 
ok then any prob's/conflicts with this previous advice?

using MKS, exdendia or kasperspy as well as windows defender on as well as spybot and ewido
then just windows firewall
 
but will nod32 conflict with any of the others-as to be honest-surely i'm better off running more than one if they are all missing bits here and there that others are picking up??
 
I doubt that any single AV solution is going to be bullet proof - nearly all of them have bad patches, where they issue an update that either causes false positives or misses a very new or very old virus.

If you run more than one package on a PC you're likely to have conflicts, and you may suffer reduced performance, and it still won't necessarily keep you any safer.

FWIW my advice would be to weighthe following selling points according to your own needs, then choose a single AV package that fits them well:

- frequency of updates
- performance in tests
- cost
- resource consumption
- configurability / false positives
- reputation

And then, if you come across a file that you want a second opinion on, use one of the multi-scan services:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/
http://www.virustotal.com
 
I would use 1 of the top-tier AVs (Kaspersky, NOD32, F-Secure...) and then use a dedicated anti-trojan program like Ewido or BOClean if you are worried about your AV missing something.

You could use a second AV as a backup for on-demand scans only (not real-time!), such as the free version of BitDefender 8.
 
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