Can Anyone Recommend A Good AntiVirus Programme?

kippen_noedel

Picking the best anti virus is like picking the best car, it'll probably change every year.

What you should do is select one that has permanently been at or around the top of the list.

As a free solution I'd go for AntiVir from Avira, the official site is Avira.com

Jaffa.

That stupid ad thing put's me off Avira (I can imagin them force 'upgrading' it so you can't remove the ad), the lack of script detection put's me off Avast and AVG has slightly better def's then Avast but no heuristics and it's buggy.

-TangleFoot-

Jaffa. wrote: »

That stupid ad thing put's me off Avira

The ads can be disabled, but that hasn't convinced me to ditch my current setup.

It's nice to finally 'meet' someone who shares my opinion of it. :wave:

GT60

Norton Internet security at tesco for £25 very cheap

http://direct.tesco.com/search/default.aspx?search=norton&confirm.x=53&confirm.y=7

espresso

Jaffa. wrote: »

That stupid ad thing put's me off Avira (I can imagin them force 'upgrading' it so you can't remove the ad), the lack of script detection put's me off Avast and AVG has slightly better def's then Avast but no heuristics and it's buggy.

AVG does have heuristics and it's not buggy.

:rolleyes:

Jaffa.

espresso wrote: »

AVG does have heuristics and it's not buggy.

:rolleyes:

The free one? Does it, meh they don't make a big issue of it like the others then.
The installers bad from what i've seen on youtube and no Anti-Rootkit.

kippen_noedel

disabling the popup ad is easy, just adjust the properties for avnotify.exe

Jaffa.

kippen_noedel wrote: »

disabling the popup ad is easy, just adjust the properties for avnotify.exe

Yeah I know but Avira will soon cotton on to this...

MattHawkins

I have used AVG for years and use AVG on all my family PCs.

Norton is overpriced (ie more than free) and is generally considered a bloated resource hog.

superscaper

I've used all the free AV's and many of the commercial solutions. Personally I've found Eset NOD32 (well more the whole Smart Security Suite) worth every penny and overall better value/efficacy than the freeware alternatives.