BEST ANTIVIRUS

**erhan28** · January 29th, 2006, 11:54 PM

Now I've looked at a lot of articles latley and have found nothing. They all go around in circles.
Here is what I think are the top but cant seem to find which is the best.

Avast
AVG
Microsoft Onecare
PC cillin

Dont even think that norton and Mcafee are even worth a look.

I use onecare now with AVG and onecare is nice cause its fast to find the virus and give you an alert and even scans java and finds them. PCcillin is also there cause some gave that a great vote.
Now i know i will get a lot of avast fans giving one word answers but why ??
what makes it better than the others and why. ????
Any ideas and comments on this ??

**towlies high** · January 30th, 2006, 01:08 AM

i use ewido...love it.

**RetroEvolute** · January 30th, 2006, 01:15 AM

I now use AVG, but when I tried Avast, it actually had less system resources and more features that I liked. Then it made my computer crash.

I fixed the problem and put AVG on instead as it was second best, imo.

**filipino** · January 30th, 2006, 01:18 AM

PC-Cillin is good but not free, so AVG vs avast ill pick avast

**eminem_rh25** · January 30th, 2006, 01:31 AM

OneCare

**bfcx** · January 30th, 2006, 01:38 AM

http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/

I love ewido, i use it when others fail and it almost always gets everything, can run in safemode unlike some scanners and does both virus's and spyware. use it at work on really tough infections.

At home i use AVG and my brain, havent gotten anything to speak of forever.

**cunokyle** · January 30th, 2006, 01:44 AM

My favorite free program is AVG...well..it is my favorite program free or paid for...

**sharder8** · January 30th, 2006, 02:14 AM

Trend/PC-cillin gets my vote . . .

I run between 18 and 25 computers at home (24x7), have 3 teenage kids, and a wife that like to click on everything.

With Trend Internet Security, I haven't had to clean anything in so-o-o long, I'm starting to wonder if I'll know what to do if something slips by.

Harder

**erhan28** · January 30th, 2006, 05:41 PM

i like avg because it uses less resource. I used avast as well but uses more resources. also i love onecare because it has nice scanner, easy user interface, and works well with MS WINDOWS. I still get mixed reviews, I guess no know will know 100%
for now i use avg and onecare and ones in a while do a scan with counter-spy.

**Amr** · January 30th, 2006, 06:08 PM

I use AVG, no problems.

**SpaceSquad** · January 30th, 2006, 06:13 PM

Panda is pretty damn good...my favorite AV suite

**billhann123** · January 30th, 2006, 06:34 PM

I've used a number of applications over the years - mostly OEM or extended trials, but I now use AVG - it's free, takes few resources has regular, almost daily updates that don't take ages to download and I've had no virus problems since installing about a year ago.

Good luck

**dannychuckle** · January 30th, 2006, 07:05 PM

I can' t compare as i only use Avast, but I've got to recommend it - it does everything i need with minimal resources, and needs no user interaction once set up - perfect. I've not had a virus on any machine that i use (and i use shareaza quite a lot, but not for many executables) in years.

HTH

**hatehotmail** · January 31st, 2006, 05:14 AM

Avast! Is the thing

**thelonegunman** · January 31st, 2006, 09:28 AM

I use norton corporate on my network, based from a server, very reliable and touch wood will continue to offer me and my other network users good protection.

**Martoch** · January 31st, 2006, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by thelonegunman

I use norton corporate on my network

Hopefully it's doing a better job than the corporate version I ran across recently...
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t160589.html

I prefer Avast over AVG for three reasons...from recent articles I've read, it's had a higher detection rate than AVG. Also, it has the ability to perform a boot-scan of your entire system...last time I checked, AVG didn't have that capability. Finally, that little spinning blue circle is soooo cute! Sometimes I think it's spinning around because it's so happy to be protecting my computer.

**lazyman4444** · January 31st, 2006, 10:11 AM

I use Panda Titanium AV 2006. Good stuff.

**wera** · January 31st, 2006, 11:35 AM

"ability to perform a boot-scan " AVG has had that since i first tried AVG in 2003 where habve you been

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**mar122999** · January 31st, 2006, 04:03 PM

I was an Avast fan recently until I downloaded a small .zip file from the net. The file looked supicious so I scanned the contents with Avast and found nothing. I still didn't feel comfortable opening it so I used this oportunity to see how good/bad Avast was in this situation. I then used Kaspersky's online virus scanner and scanned the .zip file again. Kaspersky found 4 different virus files located inside of that .zip file.

This was done with both AVs having updated defs. This is only one case, but I decided to drop Avast and buy Kaspersky.

**dzee** · January 31st, 2006, 04:10 PM

I like Sophos it was reccomended by my cousin who does something somewhere in the I.T. world, he said his company uses it. Anyhow it found 6 viruses that norton 2004 (up to date) missed.

Long story short whatever you choose dont choose norton.

I hear AVG is the best, but Sophos is my choice.