Spyware - Using Spybit at the mo......
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Uninstall Avast! and install the version of Avira, it's much better imo http://www.free-av.com/. Also do a scan with Panda Cloud http://www.cloudantivirus.com/
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Every 5 minutes I hear people say install this its the best and then 10 minutes later its not the best, that one is...
Avira IMO isreally bad compared to Avast.
NOD32 I think is the best, however, I have not renewed my subscription for it and thats why I went and eventually found Avast to my liking.
Adaware solutions I am using NoAdware 4
Neither Avast or NoAdware have found anything on my PC for over a year now, except that if I download a keygen or some other naughty app, they are almost always containing something or other.
One of the best things you can do, is make sure you have a good firewall. I simply use Windows' own firewall coupled with the routers hardware one.
I dont get infections that way... Have not done for some years... nothing ever finds anything anyway?
Avira IMO isreally bad compared to Avast.
NOD32 I think is the best, however, I have not renewed my subscription for it and thats why I went and eventually found Avast to my liking.
Adaware solutions I am using NoAdware 4
Neither Avast or NoAdware have found anything on my PC for over a year now, except that if I download a keygen or some other naughty app, they are almost always containing something or other.
One of the best things you can do, is make sure you have a good firewall. I simply use Windows' own firewall coupled with the routers hardware one.
I dont get infections that way... Have not done for some years... nothing ever finds anything anyway?
lots of pop ups ! sounds like you have a infection
Try MalwareBytes and Super Antispyware for removal both are free and very good at cleaning infected pc's
Avast is a good AV but Avira has better detection, and IMHO is the best standalone AV product at the moment light and great detection and removal
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Another vote for Avira if you want a free one.
Also for spyware I'd use Spybot S&D.
Also for spyware I'd use Spybot S&D.
Then you're wrong, i'm afraid to say... because it's clearly not.
Ok, I will re-try it again tonight.
I have a CD collection of infested files. These files have been built up for over 10 years now and have over 8000 different viral infections on them.
I based my opinion on the fact that
NOD32 found every one in 4 minutes
AVAST Found every one in 6 minutes
AVIRA found 7948 of them in 15 minutes
Worst one was Norton as that found 2592 in 4 hours!!!!!
The list and results are out of date however.
all test results are different, I also test with a collection of malware and live urls(which don't stay up very long), the usual suspects rouges, trojans, virus, adware etc and my results are different from yours with Avira being top of the bunch the last time I tested about a week ago.
but like I said all tests results are different as are the way they are tested.
but basing it on my own tests and decent malware testing website's Avira pretty much is the top finisher under most test's.
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Aviras hands down easily better then Avast always has been for years, been running virus scans as part of my job for 5 years and Aviras been pretty much top dog, id back it up with Superantispyware and Malwarebytes though running all 3 will pretty much keep your system clean as a fiddle.
so does Avira and Kaspersky and any of the top AV, the reason people run SuperAntispyware and MalwareBytes these apps tend to be geared at malware the main virus scanners miss, plus the free versions are on demand only so you wont see a performance hit or have conflicts.
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Id imagine a lot of people still use AVG free which is the version i assume you are using ?, but it isnt the best and lacks rootkit detection Avast and Avira are better choices for free AV.
Ok, stuffed Avira onto a PC - not bad. I stand corrected, its not bad at all.
I will run a head to head later on, but from what Im seeing, I fel that I might just have a new top dog in my collection.
AVG
Avg used to be high on my "ones to have" list, but recently, its been getting less and less favoured and with good reason. I have come across a good handfull of infested systems recently that have AVG and should have had better protection than AVG was giving them.
I will run a head to head later on, but from what Im seeing, I fel that I might just have a new top dog in my collection.
AVG
Avg used to be high on my "ones to have" list, but recently, its been getting less and less favoured and with good reason. I have come across a good handfull of infested systems recently that have AVG and should have had better protection than AVG was giving them.