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What AV do you use the most?

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I gave Comodo a try and then promptly removed it.

Even though I told it to stop isolating programs/add them to trusted/try as I might to get it to stop sandboxing stuff...

...it asked me to do the same things all over again after a restart.
 
hows kespersky 2011 doing these days? I was going to upgrade from 2010 but was put off by performace issue

I m getting windows 7 in the next 24 hours so my subscriptions gone dodgy I ll get on to tech at a later date through

I was thinking of free solution


already chosen comdo...as I already know what its capable off, but I want a decent Url blocker and online scanner as well which free seems to fall flat on its face with..* cough Avast* which put me in a reboot cycle as it messed up updates thinking it was malicous..

So yeah but kesperky is only £16
 
I used to use AVG Free for a long time, then gave Microsoft Essentials a go shortly after it was released and it found an awful lot of infections etc that AVG hadn't picked up on :eek:

Have been using it ever since :D

It has a much nicer interface and is a lot faster than AVG. Just tried a scan and the CPU usage occasionally goes up to 1%, but no higher!
AVG scans used to use around 80% or so :confused: mental!
 
wow, lots of opinions here! No way I can read them all.

Simple question... which AV is going to give me the BEST possible real time protection without slowing down my system in ANY way while playing online games or doing animation work?

I dont like things popping up on my screen unless it detects some firey burning death virus that needs immediate intervention.

Something unobtrusive and online gamer friendly please?

Thanks folks.
 
Roscoe1724 said:
wow, lots of opinions here! No way I can read them all.

Simple question... which AV is going to give me the BEST possible real time protection without slowing down my system in ANY way while playing online games or doing animation work?

I dont like things popping up on my screen unless it detects some firey burning death virus that needs immediate intervention.

Something unobtrusive and online gamer friendly please?

Thanks folks.
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A question like that will generate as many answers as already fill this thread, tbh. Everyone has their favourites for their own reasons. Many will recommend (as they already have) MSE, but I find it lacking. My favourite is Comodo IS 2011, which can be chatty (which is a good thing actually) for a day or so until it knows your system, but you only need to set it to Proactive Protection, tell settings to automatically quarantine malware, and you'll barely see a popup ever. It also has a Game Mode and only uses around 10MB RAM.

Failing that, I'd say Avast Free. It's not as good as Comodo at detection and the sandbox is in its infancy, but it's at least as good as NOD32 these days and is very unobtrusive. It also uses little RAM. There's really not much point paying for an AV as there are some excellent free ones.
 
Why on earth do you need a 'Game Mode' for AV software :confused:
And you say it only uses 10mb ..... is that supposed to be good .... MSE barely uses 5mb.
 
sWiZzLe said:
Why on earth do you need a 'Game Mode' for AV software :confused:
And you say it only uses 10mb ..... is that supposed to be good .... MSE barely uses 5mb.
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Game mode in any AV suite simply means that it will go into default-deny if it needs to ask anything. That, as opposed to you being about to win a match with that crucial headshot, only for the game to lose focus to a popup asking "What do you want to do with this?...". :p

7-10MB on average, yes. That's all inclusive. If MSE only uses 5MB, great. I'd imagine it's running a service behind it to get that though, and you're simply looking at the GUI portion? Either way, I've personally found MSE to suck, and it's let trojans through my machine before now. So I'd stick to Comodo even if it did mean a 3MB penalty. Given I have 4GB, 3MB isn't going to make me sleep less at night.

I cited the 7-10MB as most mainstream suites (note: suites - not simple AV-only signature bots like MSE) use between 20MB and 75MB. Given that Comodo runs a signature AV, heuristics, behavioural analysis, a firewall, a sandbox and a cloud scanner on that 7-10MB that's pretty damn good going. :p
 
Just the regular free Internet Security suite. I don't think it's worth paying for the pro mate, no. It's only basically telephone support and a person to remote in to fix your machine if you mess it up. You're not that much of a noob, right? ;)
 
sWiZzLe said:
Why on earth do you need a 'Game Mode' for AV software :confused:
And you say it only uses 10mb ..... is that supposed to be good .... MSE barely uses 5mb.
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You'll find if you show all processes that there is a service that eats around 60-70MB. You're just looking at the GUI memory consumption.
 
Well I have just had my first issues with what seems like a virus on Windows 7.

Today I updated my graphics driver, all the other security and Windows updates etc that you do when you have not had a PC connected for a wee while, one update was Adobe or Java if I remember correct with teh black n red box pop up.

I also decided to give Comodo a go...

Well all I seemed to get was some sort of Java run time trojan thingy come up about 30 times (all with a variant in the letter/number with Avira and Comodo, no matter what I tried it kept popping up, and my Anti virus stuff was switching off. I disconnected from the web, ran Avira in safe mode and got a nice wee collection of the above quarantined, but when I booted back as normal, Anti Virus were off, updates failed, and a scan seemed to freeze my PC.

System restore seems to have got me back, I had to uninstall Avira and re-install and its scan has picked up nothing, but what can I do to make sure?
 
Advice on Internet security for 2010/2011

Hoping to get some advice on which internet security to get for 2010 or 2011. Im currently using Kaspersky 2010 IS and it runs out in 13 days. This was the first time i have used kaspersky and its been "Ok". I felt that it wasn't giving me enough info on the security side for threats and such. In terms of resources it was nice and quick though.

Not sure if its worth getting 2011 version of Kaspersky or whether its worth giving Norton 2010/2011 a go (haven't used norton since 2007) because i heard its improved quite a bit. I've tried AVG in the past but i found it wasn't brilliant.

Anyone tried any of the new IS Suites that can comment?
 
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