Comments on: What is the best antivirus software?

By: shahadin

shahadin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:31:09 +0000

Thats a great list of antivirus software.

By: john morrison

john morrison — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:46:41 +0000

have tried mcafee,norton,avg etc.but the one that kicked them all into touch was A-squared.Easy to use ,found viruses both mcafee and norton never picked up.Well worth giving the 30 day trial a go,what have you got to lose.I also had spyhunter but A-squared made it redundant!

By: razna

razna — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:41:45 +0000

i use norton security scan, do you think that it is good because i got a virus on msn and everytime i sign into msn the virus sends a link to every person that is online and when i sign out it sends it as well. i don’t no what to do. i scan my file everyday, but itseems to not work, it doesn’t go. could you help me get rid of it.

By: Bish

Bish — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:00:52 +0000

I have been using Avast for 4 years now. I used to have AVG but I got 3 backdoor trojan viruses in the time that I used it, so a colleague at Computacenter recommended Avast. Arrr, Avast ye indeed. In the 4 years I have been using it I have not had a virus infect my system, so I have not had the need to remove any viruses. One thing about Avast however is that when I try to run a full system scan it never seems to get past 48% these days. Maybe my system is a little on the large size with 4 hard drives but it does stop anything getting onto the PC in the first place so I would recommend Avast Home edition to anyone.

By: shahadin

shahadin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:04:19 +0000

I am using at home the AVG Free Edition – last time I checked it was among the few antiviruses which were both free and officialy compatible with Vista..
About “tweaking” it’s nothing special: I think most if not all antiviruses have some option to disable the file scanning engine and to leave only other components enabled (email scanner, etc.)

By: hm2k

hm2k — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:01:43 +0000

http://www.intology.com/computers-internet/trend-micro-to-boycott-vb100-virus-security-test/

By: John Harmisson

John Harmisson — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:58:19 +0000

Hey Guys!
In my opinion, the best antivirus in the world are the followings:-

1. McaFee Antivirus
2. ZoneAlarm Antivirus

But i am not really sure that which type of antivirus will be best for my PC. So Please tell me the one antivirus software which is the best in the above antiviruses.
E-mail me on:-
john_harmison2007@yahoo.com

By: pete

pete — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:54:40 +0000

Hi, well I’ve tried McAfee, Norton and have been using Avg for about 3 years. Avg found plenty on trojans and various virus but I was disapointed when It found verimunde and then could not erradicate it completly, but then again it seems after some checks that all of the virus software are unable to deal with this one at the moment.

what now, McAfee is like a bigfat slob on your machine, by the time it has to move itself the virus is in, Norton, oh dear, in conclusion, are these products worth the money they ask for or are we all just here to provide this people with five bedroomed houses and german made cars, crazy.

I have decide these best , cheapest and safest option is only i pc connected to the net, the others live in isolation, oooo, they do run so well. just transfer the files you need across and post them, do you think I could sell this idea, thanks for the great site and info

By: Andrew Green

Andrew Green — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:59:53 +0000

Well, I’ve used Avast for many years and my conclusions are as follows -
- very good at detecting viruses in emails
- completely hopeless otherwise – my son’s machine which was ‘protected’ by Avast and contracted several viruses. Avast didn’t detect them being installed and didn’t detect them on scans.

As a result, I’ve now gone for Kaspersky on all our 4 home computers – it simply has the best test results I’ve seen and costs £76 (about $150) for 2 years for all 4 computers.

Free is not necessarily best (although I also like free programs as well!)

By: hm2k

hm2k — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:47:51 +0000

The prime objective should be how quickly they can detect new viruses, and since this is an impossibility to really know we may as well look at the evidence.

Things like how many users, and how people can report new viruses are important.

Generally all the above software being free offers a great userbase to work from.

Yes, both Norton and mcAfee for home use take over your machine, the corp versions however do not do this.

Avast! is great, has a large userbase, and doesn’t take over your machine, enjoy!