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+1 Eset for paid; Panda for free
Got myself Eset NOD32. Think it's enough or is there a reason for all the people mentioning Eset Smart?
MSE has decent detection rate and it's light on resources.
The false positives is high though.
Always referring blindly fooled people to this: https://blogs.sophos.com/2016/06/29/thoughts-on-comparative-testing/#more-31647
Kaspersky
You are not the first one to point this out. I provide IT services for a lot of different companies and have tested all the big players Sophos included. I ended up going with Cylance after using it through the evaluation and throwing everything I could at it. The footprint is much smaller than any other AV and has caused me less issues than the competition.
The price is higher than Sophos, Kaspersky, Avg etc. But the quality of service is much better. I have had computers crashed because of Sophos, Kaspersky, and AVG. Cylance leaves me in a bad mood when I look at their marketing material. However it's been the only AV that I have found stops Cryptolocker zero days when they break through email filtering.
Choose Bitdefender if you want something balance protection, powered by numerous features that can help to hardened your system. Advanced Threat Defense, Rescue mode, Safe Files and many more should sort out your needs.
Moreover, Bitdefender Antivirus and Total security focused purely on detection which very essential for typical users that rely too much on internet connection, their AVC helps a lot to determine suspicious programs.
Nice necro posting there after 18 months.
What the hell-_-
I've used bitdefender for a long time but now their engine is too strict for me.
I've had some txt files with unimportant notes and bitdefender killed all those files just like that.
Now i'm using qihoo 360 and it works great for me.
I personally use Kaspersky as Norton is failed in past
Who in their right mind would use a VPN that is run by the Russian government...
Damn you Windows! Now... we got to necro posting in LET for it's vulnerabilities.
And to be on subject... in 2015
(yes, because you like necro topics)I collected 8 different criptowall viruses from infected Windows computers in different cities and locations. I tested all of them with different antivirus softwares, on a machine with DeepFreeze. Best results: Eset, discovered 7/8; second Bitdefender with 5/8.Therefore, I would recommend not using Windows in the first place. If for some life/death/job reason you can't stop from using Windows, learn to use DeepFreeze and lock the partition with that closed-source operating system (known as Windows) leaving a second partition open to keep documents and projects (configure Windows to store them there). Then use antivirus: Eset installed on second partition so it can update.
I know this is hard, but hey: you chose Windows, and you chose to necro this thread.
Perhaps the US goverment
Last time I using win : Avast free version.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/the-mystery-of-the-malware-that-wasnt/
I have Avast free and Avira free in use.
Sometimes I check the tests there > https://av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/
ATM AhnLab have received great points. To me that's unknown name and I haven't tested it ever.
@AllanEckar working hard on your provider tag?
Eset might probably not be the best (according to diverse tests) way to install a versatile backdoor and ever changing vulnerabilities on ones computer but I really like their logo.
ESET is by far superior! Been using it since 2006 I think it was. Can't even tell it's there, all I do is renew the license
Previously I used KIS on Windows OSes. After switching to Mac 8 years ago, I have been using my brain to anti-virus :-)
Use Webroot Endpoint protection (we are a distributor) costs about £2 a machine per month and is fully managed. (Daily reports) seems to work well.
Also like ESET Nod32
My ESET will probably soon expire and I don't plan on renewing even though it was a great experience. What free antivirus would be the best in combination with Malwarebytes Premium (got lifetime malwarebytes :P)? I just don't like to rely on windows defender as antivirus :S
Sophos home
Works great!
I just put a magnet under my router.
Great idea. That should attract all the bad packets. Once a month you just clean the magnet from all that garbage packets stuck to it, and throw all that in trash bin; then put back the clean magnet under the router. No virus would expect that, because it can't be seen from the ethernet cable or fiber optics.
Cylance completely blows. We implemented on 10K+ systems and have spent tons of time afterwards patching due to memory leaks, bugs, it blowing up systems, etc.
To some extent all the AV systems suck but Cylance comes with a disgusting degree of "we use super-secret AI algorithms" bullshit.
Ironically, the one ransomware attack we saw affected Cylance systems while our Symantec systems that hadn't migrated yet blocked the vuln ;-)
Safe browsing habits! Need to throw your machine into the gauntlet. No antivirus can ever be perfect. I run (each separately one at a time) at a computer repair shop, mbar, mbam, kapersky, stinger, adware medic and usually one or the other picks up something the others didn't.
Block all outgoing DNS requests (so any computer on the network with a resolver configured will fail) at the router/firewall and use quad 9s (or similar DNS resolver) on the router or a customized blocklist layer in front of quad 9s like pihole or pfblockerng for pfsense or a mini vps (preferably in your home city) with netmasq and good block lists updated often and have netmasq use quad 9s or some other malware blocking dns resolver/service.
This makes it pretty hard to get infected. Not impossible, but if you use good blocklists + good DNS resolver with ad-ware blocking and update your lists frequently it is gonna be really hard to get fucked around by a virus or cryptoware with the additional benefit of ad-blocking happening at the router versus configuring on a per-device basis.
This is probably the best advice you will ever get on blocking viruses without having to install AV software on every device in an office or your home or whatever.
Blocking outgoing DNS requests (I think port 53) is key - a VPN to configured for bootleg DNS queries is the only way I know around this, but I am far from an expert.
all AV soft whichs need to buy are shit .Windows 10 internal Microsoft Defender, Free, Light, enough.