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Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:16:30 GMT

Since avg seems to have dropped the ball on me(probaly my fault as well) I have been infected with a beautiful bit of malware that's downloading new viruses to its hearts content:( currently running a bootable malwarebytes disk in the hope it catches it(fingers crossed).

Thankfully my backups stay true to their word and are in perfect working order (phew!!).

Unfortunatly I've now lost a days work:(

Anyone got any good reccomendations? For a free firewall/antivirus? If need be ill pay but I've spent enough this month haha.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

perksie — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:19:09 GMT

Malwarebytes should catch it, why not use Microsoft Security Essentials to save time and money?

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:22:38 GMT

I've always been under the impression Microsoft security were not to be trusted? (Probaly living in the past).

I sincerely hope it does avg only saw the viruses yet didnt detect the malware:(

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

jonsie — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:36:37 GMT

I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials alongside Comodo firewall and they seem to catch everything. Always run MalwareBytes once a week and it's always clean.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

MI5 — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:38:12 GMT

MSE on the kids laptops and I've got Symantec End Point on my laptop - All clean, so far *touch wood*

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:42:37 GMT

Well so far not so good:( 500,000+ objects scanned and no questionable files marked:(.

Ill set mse up once I get it running again(clean sweap maybe)

Cheers:)

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:04:01 GMT

I like norton myself

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:14:11 GMT

1 million file down and only issue its flagged is my not so legit copy of dreamweaver:(

I've never got on with norton 😞

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Bambino — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:32:36 GMT

Avast free. Rated #1 by CNET.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:39:20 GMT

avg dropped the ball years ago, mse is the best free one

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:41:06 GMT

Avg have been perfect until now:(

Probally my bad as I costed a not so legit website for a tutorial on app analytics.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:36:51 GMT

Panda Cloud Antivirus Free

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

adamtemp64 — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:03:53 GMT

Symantec Cloud Endpoint protection. (paid for) Is installed on all the work Pc's and not that expensive £45.60 per pc covered for 3 years http://www.symantec.com/endpoint-protection-small-business-edition-2013?fid=symantec-cloud note the free 30 day trial

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:53:54 GMT

@Liquid........so there's 5 recommendations....any wiser because I'm not !!

I've seen so many threads on the various forums over the years asking the same question and always there are 6 - 10 suggestions as to the best AV.

In the end it's what "suits you Sir"....I've changed AV 4 times in 8 years.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

adamtemp64 — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:02:27 GMT

some very usefull comparison data here http://www.av-test.org/en/home/

and the awards went to http://www.av-test.org/en/test-procedures/award/2012/

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

sheepdog — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:12:53 GMT

If you're running Win 7 or higher then you might as well stick with MS Essentials defender or whatever it is. Providing you have set your user accounts to non-admin then you'll be fine. Otherwise I'm really happy with Comodo firewall on my XP systems. Though I do tend to stick with Comodo Dragon browser these days after Firefox got exploited and almost broke my work laptop.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:21 GMT

AVG certainly did drop the ball a few years ago when they introduced all of the bloatware into their software which just slowed computers down.

Norton/Symantec also slows computers down and I always advise people to stay away from this software, not least because they have to pay for it when there are plenty of free alternatives out there.

I have been using Avast! Free Edition for the last few years on Windows 7 64bit at home without a firewall and have never had a single problem. I should also probably mention that I work in IT Security so if its good for me...(I must also note that this isn't the software we use at my place of work lol)

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

sheepdog — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:11:07 GMT

You actually switch the firewall off in Win7? I've found it relatively unobtrusive till I want to try and figure out how to allow ports through then give up trying.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Anonymous — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:15:06 GMT

I use Comodo anti-virus and Firewall, it's good but only because my Brother thinks I download too much virus infested crap so he's set the Firewall to question EVERYTHING I download, even songs from legal MP3 sites such as Amazon.

Re: Right antivirus reccomendations?

Liquid — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:48:50 GMT

Haha yes comodo can be secure to the point of basically just unplugging the network.

I've gone for comodo for now and paid for Hitman pro(mainly because it saved my computer while others hadnt a clue.)

Thanks for all the reccomendations.

I stay away from windows firewall as I cannot work it out. It doesn't show popups when blocking a connection and for the brief period I was using it it blocked everything not on a default port(yh ok good thing I guess) which makes it annoying not knowing if there's a service error rather to find out its been locked out without mention:(