Distributed Anti-Virus King (Panda vs Kapersky vs McAfee vs AVG vs Norton)

Would like to add microsoft to that list, although its only in beta rumblings are that it is in fact very very good

 

Might as well put this into here:


http://mtc.sri.com/live_data/av_rankings/

 

I've got COMODO Internet Security on mine, and two other PCs in the house.

Excellent, always picks things up.

 

was wondering if anyone has the yoggiy gatekeeper pico and if they rate it at all

 

NOD32 is good but i run business edition which is very good. stops the nasties at the server.

avast is also very good. picks up stuff that AVG, norton etc dont detect.

AVG was ok until i found out that the free edition is at least 30 days out of date with virus updates.

Norton should be burned and does nothing but harm to your PC while making it run like a snail.

 

I'm trying out Anti-Vir atm, with highly secure firefox (configure perfectly)

 

Another vote for NOD32

Oddly, the above table says NOD32 utterly sucks, however it lists version 2 which is a good few years old - its on 4 now

 

Even some of the best antivirus programs fail to pick up common things like browser hijacking....although do to my computer's browser getting hijacked, I did find out that be renaming things like spybot.exe to spybot3.exe for example would let you run the program which can be disable by a number of viruses.

 

Don't say such things unless you've actually tried the newest version (2009). It's pretty good. Only uses ~10 megs of RAM for example.

But yeah, I agree with that if older versions are discussed.

 

tbh if the microsoft defender AV thingy is good enough i can see a lot of these companies going out of business. it is going to be free isnt it?

 

Until the EU demands that MS remove the functionality...

 

ah yes, well foreseen

I guess with IE im quite glad its gone from W7, but for something as mundane as AV im prepared to just let MS handle it!

 

Arguably this would be an improvement. Microsoft should focus on making Windows less vulnerable to malware in the first place (there has been progress here, but at a glacial pace) and fixing vulnerabilities found in its products more quickly, leaving detection to third parties.

 

I agree, being such a big company with such a high amount of resources at its disposal Microsoft is doing a terrible job especially as we all know prevention is the best form of protection.

However if you think about it there may be a good reason for that. Perhaps some "payments" from AV companies? Wild guess I know but you never know with big corporations.

 

+1

 

You are thinking about Avast, yes. They have changed the interface to something usable now, though. It looks very clean

But, How often do you use the interface anyway? The AV runs in the background, and for scanning specific files you just right click and choose scan.


The sounds in Avast is very annoying, but those can be turned off.

 

+1 for avast, -1 for the loud 3am wake up "your virus scanner has been updated". But you can turn that off as mentioned above

 

Agreed with the comment about Norton 2009, it is a much improved piece of software and should be judge on it's merits alone when comparing with others.

I personally use ESET/NOD32 and have never had any trouble so can definately recommend it.

As for freeware, i've only ever seen could reviews on Avira, though when people then say they use SpyBot and 'Insert other programs here' in conjunction, and then go to flame a product such as Norton for crippling a system it does make me chuckle, as most often than not, running all those leaves a larger footprint than others such as Norton.

 

NOD 32 +1

Fast lightweight don't have to stop doing other things just cause I fancy running a virus scan.

 

haven't we had this exact same thread like 5 times in the last couple weeks?