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What AV do you use the most?

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Rainmaker said:
Just sayin'. :p There's no such thing as a perfect AV solution, common sense + layered security are the best approach.
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agree, but this software may accept any adaware as a trojan, which is not credible enough. Check with spyware doctor + kaspersky + dr.web + Malwarebytes and show the scanning logs, then we may discuss how good nod is.
Kaspersky + nod + outpost + kerio winroute, was used on my pc for quite long time, and I'm not a paranoic, just had to use this "bundle" to avoid some problems ;)
 
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I couldnt fine Malwarebytes Anti-Malware so there you go :D
 
I have Avast Internet Security and machine seems slow since a windows reinstall. Not sure if I have the settings on 'full' is the reason, but ive taken it off and giving MSE a try.

Not 100% comfy with windows firewall but I can always get a different one.
 
I'm after a new antivirus for w7 64bit.

Using Webroot ISE at the moment but its just expired, seems ok to be honest with little system resource use etc.

Just wondering if there is a better program out before I get another 12 months.

After something that uses very little system resources and does a good job.

Anyone recommend anything?

Seems most on here go for the Microsoft free version?
 
I just got hit with the Vista Home Security virus which was a right pain to get rid of!

Thing is I was running a fully up to date ESET Smart Security and it still got through...

So.... thats ESET out the window...

Just wondering if anyone has used Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2011?
I'm sure i read in Mirco Mart that it was very good....
 
Chandler_90 said:
I just got hit with the Vista Home Security virus which was a right pain to get rid of!

Thing is I was running a fully up to date ESET Smart Security and it still got through...

So.... thats ESET out the window...

Just wondering if anyone has used Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2011?
I'm sure i read in Mirco Mart that it was very good....
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No AV can fully protect you from these fakes as they're altered on a almost daily basis to keep them from being detected (and if it has a legit security signature it can even get past comodo internet security).
 
those Av test results... I dont belive them at all. Wish I had a quid each time people said AVG or Norton was best at blocking even the tricky viruses, and according to that site its saying there both pretty much tops.

After 8 years of running healthchecks at work on dozens of pcs daily, there are no safe AV packages out there, even the pcs coming in with malware/spyware/viruses all have Norton 360/Mcafee and even Nod32 and Kaspersky installed....

Only way to be safe is common sense above anything, Kaspersky, Eset and bitdefender are coming good for detection/blocking anything and having Noscript/Adblocker addons with and Firefox, and Malwarebytes or superantispyware with shield guard enabeled seem to be able to block most of the bugs out there.

Im currently giving Bitdefender AV, Malwarebytes and noscript/adblocker addons with firefox.... aint see no nasties for a while.
 
I had Kaspersky and moved across to Bitdefender when I got a good deal on a 3 year license...what a nightmare it's been...it's seems to crash every few days, whether it be on XP, Vista or 7...the annoying thing is it crashes but won't close, you can't restart it you have to reboot.

I'm back with Kaspersky for the main machines now along with doing what HighlandeR suggests and running Malwarebytes occasionally...fingers crossed everything seems OK.
 
Hey guys i have got this pop up a few times recently when opening Mozilla for downloadhelper. I use this add on; however this spammy-looking pop up; where it opens the page did not used to appear. I have down full scans with Avast, Malwerbtes and Iobit malware fighter and they come up clean. http://update.downloadhelper.net/index.html is the page that appears; is this all fine?
 
Hi, I just did a clean install of Win 7. Can anyone recommend a good set of freeware programmes that would provide a decent level if combined protection from malware? (Preferably ones that don't massively hog system resources)

Thanks.
 
All AV questions in here?
Ok, I have AVG Free 8.5.449 on XP and I'm running pretty darned low on hard drive space, quite often AVG update will run and in doing so bring my computer to a grinding halt just through disk access, no CPU or memory use. So I end the task as it rarely completes even if left for hours, it also runs without giving any warning or indication of doing so, I only know what's slowing my computer through task manager. As I'm running so low on hard drive space I then go and delete all of..
C:\Documents and Settings\AllUsers.Windows\avg8\(temp/update) which usually gets me back a lot of my hard drive space but it seems to me like there must be some more temp files somewhere, anyone know where they might be?
This is slowly eating away my hard drive space for nothing and I'm convinced AVG is just spamming useless files somewhere.

Scratch that, I learned to search by date modified and size :)
There's several gig (5.9 actually) of junk in C:\Windows\Temp I hope none of this is important. I don't get why diskcleanup doesn't clean it up?
 
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Bah, using MSE got a nasty Trojan. My fault I clicked ok after installing word press and didn't look at what I said ok to install :o

Had browser redirects from Google and would deny windows centre/MSE launching on boot, malwarebytes found infections but didn't cure it, had to reformat to be sure.

In short, I let MSE down not the other way round
 
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