Poll: **********The All New Official OcUK Anti-Virus Program Thread - KEEP ALL AV QUESTIONS IN HERE*******

[CaptainRAVE]

Avast has been my AV of choice for a number of years now (mainly since AVG became so bloated).

 

[jbloggs]

"I don't need to do X because I have common sense."

No, the opposite would be true...

Also, I wrote + common sense...

 

[Rambo89]

If its freeware i swear by Avast as its pretty good.

Though i use Nod32 now as i get it through work and its pretty good, definetly would pay for this over avast in future if i needed to.

 

[Nelly]

Check out these reviews here, I found it useful >> http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePCSecurity/

 

[foster grant]

Yeah...Nod32

 

[KIA]

 

[Nelly]

I woudn't bother with Microsoft Security Essentials - new review as of today.

Poor detection rates, lacks a lot of features, no malware detection, or heuristic abilitys.

 

[kmetek]

excellent reveiw!

 

[demonix]

heuristics detection is just for the tinfoil helmet brigade since all the detections I've gotten that have been through heuristics detection were false positives.

 

[Nelly]

heuristics detection is just for the tinfoil helmet brigade since all the detections I've gotten that have been through heuristics detection were false positives.

Which Anti-Virus was that?

 

[KIA]

heuristics detection is just for the tinfoil helmet brigade since all the detections I've gotten that have been through heuristics detection were false positives.

Indeed. It's child's play to make a binary that'll be undetected by 100% of anti-virus products.

 

[colbrook32]

Always used Avast never let me down!

 

[PorkPieCat]

completely unobtrusive antivirus

does anyone know any av software that -only- scans on demand? i want manual updates, no auto startup components or background processes or anything - literally i want to open it maybe once every half a year and scan, then i want it to have no processes or startup programs for the rest of the time.

thanks

edit: sorry double post. please delete if possible

 

[LeeUK]

does anyone know any av software that -only- scans on demand? i want manual updates, no auto startup components or background processes or anything - literally i want to open it maybe once every half a year and scan, then i want it to have no processes or startup programs for the rest of the time.

thanks

edit: sorry double post. please delete if possible

Microsoft Security Essentials I never have any bother with. No crap bugging me every five minutes. Although it's still not what you are looking for.

 

[Raumarik]

Any AV can be disabled, don't see the point in not having it running on-demand though, if that makes a noticeable improvement in your PC performance then your PC is clearly garbage.

Just about every AV package can be set to on demand scanning only.

 

[PorkPieCat]

thanks for the responses. even with modules disabled, kaspersky for example wanted to scan internet, causing lagginess in multiplayer p2p flash games for example... avs just seem determined to do things even when told not to, and i'm not a fan of that. 3570k, 8gb btw - not yet garbage i hope. i just want a nice scanner to scan without bloating my system, and i don't see why that's an unusual or unreasonable desire.

ps i did mean unobtrusive, not unINtrusive -.-

 

[Deleted member 77746]

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[PorkPieCat]

aha, thank you. how did i not see that -.- embarrassed...

 

[brucey034]

Has anyone else noticed that MSE is updating a lot more often ?
Mine has updated at least four times today so far, via windows update.

 

[UnworthyBean]

I think MalwareBytes fits the bill perfectly here?