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What's the best antivirus?

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by Reemr, Mar 15, 2008.

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  1. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    For the people who don't like taking the performance hit of having an on-access scanner (resident protection) (even though I don't notice mine running) there is a good free AV that does not have resident protection, instead relying on scheduled scans (which you configure) and right-click scans of individual files and folders. get it here: http://www.clamwin.com/
     
    Loonylion, Nov 17, 2008
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  2. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    I use zone alarm security suite, thats setup to virus and spyware scan once a week. It also has a firewall, everything you need really.

    Its still yet to fail me.

    But if your looking for a free one thats good, I've used avast! in the past and that was also good.
     
    Gietz, Nov 18, 2008
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Avast! scans rather slowly. I've no idea what ZoneAlarm antivirus is like, but ZoneAlarm is primarily a firewall.
     
    Loonylion, Nov 18, 2008
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  4. Gietz

    Gietz Well-Known Member

    Zone Alarm is actually quite good. I've heard stories from a mate that it wouldn't let him do anything, but it works prefect for me, nothing goes wrong, and doesn't stop me from gaming or anything.

    I have security suite, which comes with all antivirus, spyware and firewall all in the one program. I think you can get them all seperate with Zone alarm firewall, or something.
     
    Gietz, Nov 18, 2008
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  5. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    Zone Alarm Firewall can be gotten separately, for non 64bit OSes.
     
    anandjones, Nov 18, 2008
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  6. 1Blacks1

    1Blacks1 Well-Known Member

    LOL !!

    "From a Mate"

    Well, i did have ZoneAlarm once in my life time and like loony said Its "primarily a firewall".
     
    1Blacks1, Nov 18, 2008
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  7. luster_shade

    luster_shade Member

    Primarily what I know there is a free version of ZoneAlarm, but its only a fire wall. Is there free version of ZoneAlarm anti-virus?
     
    luster_shade, Nov 18, 2008
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  8. majormovies

    majormovies New Member

    i use avast pro ... much faster than the home version and works great with p2p sharing .....
     
    majormovies, Nov 30, 2008
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  9. b0tnet

    b0tnet Member

    Avira is the best. It has high virus/spyware detection ability and low resource usage.
    The second best is ESET cpu wise, but I have to question its detection accuracy. I always seem to find no viruses on my system with its scanning system, but I find tons of malware if I use MalwareByte's scanner.
     
    b0tnet, Dec 1, 2008
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  10. berowra3

    berowra3 New Member

    Avira is the best because the reviews they are the best
    The avast is second best
     
    berowra3, Dec 2, 2008
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  11. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Avast is slow as hell though.
     
    Loonylion, Dec 2, 2008
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  12. Hyza

    Hyza Active Member

    Would most likely be AVG. Stay away from anything McAfee, Like Norton.
     
    Hyza, Dec 5, 2008
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  13. mister_djirlow

    mister_djirlow New Member

    Avira and AVG from the free ones, Kaspersky and Nod32 from the non-free ones.
    Avoid Avast!, Make-a-fee(Mcafee) and Slowtorn.(Norton).
     
    mister_djirlow, Dec 11, 2008
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  14. hellhound650

    hellhound650 Member

    A quick question, Is Symantec Antivirus good?
     
    hellhound650, Jan 3, 2009
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  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, it's crap. Symantec = norton
     
    Loonylion, Jan 3, 2009
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  16. hellhound650

    hellhound650 Member

    Really? Oh well, I got it for free. I'll get a better one such as AVG free edition since I'm a cheapskate.
     
    hellhound650, Jan 3, 2009
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  17. n0thealthy

    n0thealthy Well-Known Member

    I disagree again. The new 2009 version is really good.
     
    n0thealthy, Jan 3, 2009
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  18. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    the version was not specified, and even if that version is good none of the others are. It will take a lot more than one decent version to redeem them.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 3, 2009
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  19. n0thealthy

    n0thealthy Well-Known Member

    Yes it will, but it won't help if people keep saying they're rubbish without even trying them.
     
    n0thealthy, Jan 3, 2009
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  20. hellhound650

    hellhound650 Member

    Well, I have Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition. It updates the virus definitions every week or every few days. I can't tell what year it was made, so I have no clue if it is good or not.
     
    hellhound650, Jan 4, 2009
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