Best Antivirus /Security

redux

Avira's paid virus product just won an annual award at AV Comparatives, and you can find a thread on here about 3 months' free trial on it

aliEnRIK

Conor wrote: »

Scanning of scripts
Blocking redirects not done with scripts
Blocking drive by exploits
Scanning of downloads
Scanning of IM messages.

Avast does most, noscript does the rest
define 'drive by exploits'

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

You'd be prudent to read this

Don't get me wrong, sandboxie's great, you just need to appreciate what it can't do...

Link dont work for me. Id appreciate whatever it was though

[Deleted User]

redux wrote: »

Avira's paid virus product just won an annual award at AV Comparatives

3. “Winners”
If you plan to buy an Anti-Virus, please visit the vendor's site and evaluate their software by downloading a trial version, as there are also many other additional features (e.g. firewall, behaviour blocker, spam-filter, etc.) and important considerations (e.g. compatibility, graphical user interface, ease of use, price, etc.) for an Anti-Virus that you should evaluate by yourself. As explained above, a perfect Anti-Virus or the best Anti-Virus for all needs and for every user does not exist. Our winners category is based purely on the objective test data and does not evaluate or consider other factors that may be of importance for specific users’ needs or preferences.

a) Overall winner of 2008 based on the reached levels and results: To be rated „Best Anti-Virus Product of 2008“ by AV-Comparatives, an Anti-Virus product should have high detection rates, high proactive detection rates, very few false positives (zero is preferable), be fast with a low system impact, cause no crashes or hangs, and have no annoying bugs. The following products received at least 3 ADVANCED+ awards during 2008: AVIRA and ESET NOD32. It was very close, but the detailed scores of AVIRA were higher than the ones of ESET NOD32. The overall Best Anti-Virus product of 2008 is AVIRA

Full details see here: http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/summary2008.pdf

lee26g

comodo hands down

aliEnRIK

david ~ thats about the PAID for Avira by the way (premium)
But yeah, Aviras my favourite all the same

aliEnRIK

lee26g wrote: »

comodo hands down

why?
Do you have test results on its av?

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aliEnRIK wrote: »

david ~ thats about the PAID for Avira by the way (premium)
But yeah, Aviras my favourite all the same

Fair point but I believe their scanning engine / virus definations is the same in both.

aliEnRIK

Deleted_User wrote: »

Fair point but I believe their scanning engine / virus definations is the same in both.

No, premium has spyware in the definitons list. The free one doesnt.
HOWEVER, Marty posted a link a few weeks ago which still put the free version above most other av programs.

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aliEnRIK wrote: »

No, premium has spyware in the definitons list. The free one doesnt.
HOWEVER, Marty posted a link a few weeks ago which still put the free version above most other av programs.

You'tr preaching to the converted