Save your money. Use a freeware AV.
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Save your money. Use a freeware AV.
Not a recommendation, more of an observation.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/
Not a recommendation, more of an observation.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/
I'll bite so just installed latest version of Bitdefender free to see if they fixed the crashing issues I had with some Origin games ie ME3 over six months ago,well latest version has no issues and seems to be working great ,so I've to give it my recommendation.
Light,no ads and free ,gets the job done,nothing really more you can ask for.
Soldato
Panda had a recent hiccup I read today..
What crashing problem out of interest? Around this time last year I played through ME3 and had an issue where the game, on startup, would CTD about four or five times before "working" and starting up normally, whereupon it would work fine.
I use BitDefender free - is this the issue you're thinking of?
Associate
I had to do a reinstall because of it. Completely broke my windows. Now using Bitdefender.
Soldato
Apparently you just (for this one rare occurance) should not reboot the system. They owned up to it and have fixes '90%' of the problems - whatever that means.
I have used many over the years and they all have their hiccups. People singing sunny day over their favourite brand are either not being totally honest or are very lucky.
The longer you use the products the greater chance of seeing how well they perform.
Associate
Associate
I was using AVG Free until today. Uninstalled and now using Windows defender built into Win8.1 (MSE)
I would use anything but Defender(MSE),try Bitdefender Free or Panda Cloud,plenty of better free alternatives out there that are light on resources with far superior detection rates.Malwarebytes free version is also nice as a backup for malware scans now and then too.
Yes user is the first line of defence, but you might as well use the best AV programs available to you,especially if some are free.
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Associate
I think I will try Bitdefender and see how it goes, I started to hate AVG coming up with all the shpeel.
Soldato
I liked Bit Defender but I kept having a common bug where it would minimize games and the only way to fix it was to log off / on. I now use Qihoo 360 Total Security and have been for several months and absolutely love it, can't fault it in anyway and it uses its own, Avira's and Bit Defenders engines simultaneously.
Best thing is that it's 100% free with no PUP's and no attempt to drain you wallet at any point.
Soldato
Not a recommendation, more of an observation.
http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/17/has-the-antivirus-industry-gone-mad/
Thanks for the link, was getting fed up with Avast offering Chrome/Dropbox as well as uneeded extra features. Not to mention the pop ups now displaying news and offers at least once a day... It use to be a lot more quiet few years back.
Decided to give MSE a go on my Windows 8.1 laptop, and the boot time seems to have significantly improved. May give Bitdefender a go however.
Soldato
Many of these 'free' products have to make a living. This is the behaviour you have to expect now (or stealth PuP's).
No issues with gaming for me with Bitdefender Free,but then using latest free version.
It's been 100% solid and no pop ups or issues,flawless AV.
This is why paid AV products exist. Distributing PUPs by using free AV as the delivery method is another nail in the coffin.
Virtually all the free AVs have a paid version or two,ie Avast,AVG,Bitdefender,Avira,Panda to name a few.
You can't really blame them for advertising their own products in the freebies.
Bitdefender Free being the exception as the only one with no PUPs.
Soldato
Updated flash tonight. Tries to sneak a mcafee install default ticked.