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Best antivirus?

=AdelaisAer Aug 6, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I use Avast Internet Security (not the free version), but I am honestly considering changing to something else because of Avast's recent high rate of false positives. :S What do you recommend?

Preferably people who have had experience.

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~preetisoft2 Aug 22, 2012

I think Kaspersky is the best.

=Indigo-Yartsev Aug 19, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I have been using avast for years and have never had a problem!

*DFX4509B Aug 19, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Free anti-virus: Avast! Free Anti-virus. Commercially available anti-virus: Kaspersky Internet Security.

!KwikWire Aug 16, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, takes up a tiny amount of space and you never need to worry about it as there's no annoying pop-ups.

~CustardAndPie Aug 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'd say Malwarebytes. When my computer got infected by a nasty Trojan, my dad installed it, and it worked like a charm. And if your computer DOES get infected, I reccommend using rkill alongside to rid of it.

Also, use Firefox for a browser. It has AdBlocker, and it is very secure, compared to Internet Explorer.

~altarindustries Aug 14, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Avast works great for me, along with Comodo. Your firewall has to work in balance with the antivirus and whatever other security programs you choose (spybot, zero-day defense systems etc.)

Windows has improved in terms of its own security, but its biggest problem is its own users. You need to do the following things to put the downer on hackers:
- turn off file and printer sharing services if you don't have a printer.
- check your router, make sure its passworded and secured.
- run your computer in guest mode, NOT in admin. really big one
- google shieldsup! and see where you come out.

Premium antivirus is bullshit - Norton, Kaspersky and such. They might provide you with a wider range of antivirus security, but not much in terms of the main offenders: trojans, malware, backdoor exploiters. A deep scan with NOD32 is always helpful if your computer is acting 'strange'.

=AdelaisAer Aug 14, 2012 Student Digital Artist

So for you, it's Avast!, Comodo, and NOD32?

~altarindustries Aug 14, 2012 Student Digital Artist

It doesn't make that much of a difference. I choose Comodo because I can get to manually block applications that I feel are a little too curious; and Avast! is a good enough antivirus for most setups. But it depends on what you are doing and why you use the internet.

If you're the casual user that uses it for Yahoo!, chances are you might get a few annoying cookies.

If you like to 'borrow' things, let's be honest, using your brain is stronger than any antivirus software. Many coders can create programs that will easily bypass most windows security protocols. It's not about what firewall/antivirus you have, but about how you use your operating system. This is a real problem: many people I thought were savvy with the PC manage to infect their (or dads') computer with severe worms. No antivirus is going to help if you are going to click 'ok', 'ok' through every popup clearance.

As another user said, no antivirus is 100% safe. A healthy attitude is to assume, your computer WILL be hacked in at some point. This encourages the use of an external drive and a well encrypted truecrypt for your 'personal' stuff. It doesn't take a genius to work out if your computers been done in: if its speeding up and slowing down while your not touching it, that's a good enough sign.

Btw: excellent article about government hacks in [link] Those looking to grab an easy hack against hackers: guess what?

=AdelaisAer Aug 14, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I see. Well, I just dabble in usual things. Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Minecraft, Steam... Facebook, Youtube, deviantART, 1Channel.ch, etc. I do go on 4chan sometimes when I am painfully bored, but I scan my computer once a week with Avast and McAffee's Stinger. I also have AdBlock on FireFox. Anything else I should do? o-o;

~altarindustries Aug 14, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Those sites are mostly safe because of the sheer number of users that frequent those sites. McAffee is a weaker antivirus imo, would go for a thicker antivirus like ZoneAlarm or WebRoot, and Sophos is a nice all-rounder. Cyberhawk is a nice addition. But again, it depends on what you are downloading - or 'doing'. If you are running around downloading things that you shouldn't download, and not backing up your critical files, like precious family pictures etc. you deserve what's coming to you. (This sounds like common sense: but you have no idea how many people lump me with their laptops complaining about this!) But if you are convinced that you are owed $8 million from a fleeing African warlord and will click anything sent to you, no antivirus in the world will help you. Update your OS regularly, use ccleaner, and be a nice internet user.

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