whats best Anti virus

Dean037 · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:30

Hi all i usually use AVG but having problems with it i have heard that Avast is good does anyone use it and does it have all the features that AVG has like firewall and anti virus and spyware ,anti rootkick anti spam ,identity protection etc all in one pakage so is avast good or kaspersky want the proper version and something that has everything so wont have to worry about buying other software aswel

thanks Dean

Brummies · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:30

have you tried microsoft security essentials?

Dean037 · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:35

yeah but is that the full package inscluding everthing i listed ? would that be as good as AVG etc

FragnaticDeath · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:37

Brummies said:
have you tried microsoft security essentials?

this only. Dont even bother with anything else

Dean037 · 17 Oct 2011 at 23:38

dont think i want that anyway to be honest looking at avast or kaspersky

SheepBeast · 18 Oct 2011 at 02:05

do you actually use all that stuff you listed? seriously?..

honestly MSE and the built in firewall of windows 7/vista is rock solid. unless you are an idiot and pretty much deliberately infect your computer then there's no need to bother with anything else. Btw "being an idiot" includes not keeping windows updated - IIRC 8/10 of the most widespread viruses last year made use of holes which microsoft had patched months earlier. People just hadn't bothered using Windows Update.

http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/

This site has benchmarks which will help you determine which is the best for performance. As for features, I've said my piece.

I assume you only want free programs. If you're willing to pay, Norton 360 (most recent version) has literally everything and is great all round. That's what i'd be using if a) it was free and b) i actually needed any more of the features it has which MSE doesn't

horseunderwater · 18 Oct 2011 at 05:41

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18115179
this link

Deception · 18 Oct 2011 at 07:34

We use NOD32 at work, and with the new Version 5, it looks like a good bet. You'd probably want the Smart Security one as it ha the firewall etc, like you want. Although, I use MSE at home and not had any issues.

CSA · 18 Oct 2011 at 08:40

MSE is very good

edscdk · 18 Oct 2011 at 08:43

Dean037 said:
dont think i want that anyway to be honest looking at avast or kaspersky

kaspersky is very intrusive, I was going to use it however I put it on 4 customers machines as a test and ended up removing it from 3 of them, because it made the machines slow and kepy asking questions the users did not understand...

edscdk · 18 Oct 2011 at 08:59

CSA said:
MSE is very good

I second that I put it on everyones machines now...

MooMoo444 · 18 Oct 2011 at 09:02

Brummies said:
have you tried microsoft security essentials?

Admiral Huddy · 18 Oct 2011 at 09:05

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18115179