Antivirus software advise...

bribrian

Hi peeps, i've got AVG Free 8.0 installed on my computer but was thinking about buying Kaspersky as i've heard it's really good. Is it worth buying this & if i do can i run the both of them together or will i have to uninstall the AVG.... :beer:

Browntoa

you can;t run 2

and I would stick with AVG , or Avast

bribrian

Browntoa wrote: »

you can;t run 2

and I would stick with AVG , or Avast

Nice one thanks, if AVG works as well as Kaspersky i'll just stick with it then & save my pennies.....:beer:

Reluctant_spender

I, on the other hand, have a different point of view to that of Browntoa and that is choose Kaspersky over the free to use ones.

What does this prove - well, it's down to individual chose. If you are happy with what you have then why change.

bribrian

Reluctant_spender wrote: »

I, on the other hand, have a different point of view to that of Browntoa and that is choose Kaspersky over the free to use ones.

What does this prove - well, it's down to individual chose. If you are happy with what you have then why change.

Thanks for your input, i have been happy so far with AVG & hasn't let me down yet but i have been told by a couple of friends that Kaspersky is the best antivirus on the market at the moment & that's why i considered changing.....:think:

superscaper

Personally I found Eset Smart Security/NOD32 to be the best. About as good as Kaspersky for detection rates and it has a tiny resource footprint. I did a quick calculation a while ago and the difference in resource use and speed compared to a freebie such as AVG was actually more in my time economically than the cost to buy it. So in actual time terms etc AVG and the other free AV apps for me are actually more expensive than something like Eset. Maybe some people are satisfied with what the free AV apps offer but they are not really in the same league as Kaspersky, Eset etc. The exception are ones like McAfee and Norton which are awful and even if they were free I'd still rather stick with AVG etc. But those very well marketed but poor software shouldn't be used to tar the same brush over all commercial/paid for security software.

In my case I've tried pretty much all the free ones and I still install them on other people's PCs but this isn't about justifying to myself after I've already spent the money, as I used the 30 day trial first to actually get a real practical sense of any difference. 18 months on from when I first installed the Eset NOD32 trial, I've recently paid for a full 3 year license for Eset's Smart Security. You've certainly got nothing to lose by giving the free trials a go.

aliEnRIK

bribrian wrote: »

Thanks for your input, i have been happy so far with AVG & hasn't let me down yet but i have been told by a couple of friends that Kaspersky is the best antivirus on the market at the moment & that's why i considered changing.....:think:

Unless your hard drive is filling up with viruses I wouldnt bother. Update to latest security updates and run a FULL scan. If it doesnt find anything nasty then stick with what you have as its obviously not letting anything through. Why pay for something you dont need?

iviv

If it doesnt find anything nasty then stick with what you have as its obviously not letting anything through.

Thats a rather stupid assumption. No antivirus program will catch 100% of viruses. But the chance of catching the obscure ones that some miss is very low. However, if you run a really poor AV program thats not released an update in months, then you scan your computer, see it says you have no viruses and thus your computer is fine, thats just silly.

However, the free ones are just as good as each other, the paid ones have some quality differences (Norton and McAfee = rubbish, eset = great). Check out av comparatives. They run a couple of tests per year testing how many viruses the different AV programms catch. Note that while Norton gets good results, its also a system hog, which is why people say to avoid it.

aliEnRIK

iviv wrote: »

Thats a rather stupid assumption..

yeah sorry ~ im just very stupid :rolleyes:

Unless theyre willing to scan with a whole hog of other anti virus programs then theres not much else to check

unless you have some smarter idea brains?

iviv

Sorry, but assuming you have no viruses simply because your antivirus says so is not a very good idea.
As you say, its imposable to run several AV programs, they conflict with each other. But if you suspect that you have a virus, use one of the online scanners mentioned in the sticky. Though if you're running one of the commercial AV programs, you should be ok.

As they say, assumptions make an !!! out of u and mptions.

aliEnRIK

iviv wrote: »

Sorry, but assuming you have no viruses simply because your antivirus says so is not a very good idea.
As you say, its imposable to run several AV programs, they conflict with each other. But if you suspect that you have a virus, use one of the online scanners mentioned in the sticky. Though if you're running one of the commercial AV programs, you should be ok.

As they say, assumptions make an !!! out of u and mptions.

NOWHERE in this thread is it said they believe they HAVE a virus
The question was a simple ~ stick with AVG or get Kaspersky

To be honest ~ you answer just hacked me off as I was trying to help (without getting too technical) so why be an !!!! about it?