Which antivirus softwares is the best one?

[jessy4u]

I bought my computer 4 years ago.
To protect our computer from dangerous attacks we need to install an ani virus especially a strong one which acts reliably.
I have been in a great confusion using an antivirus, I have changed a lot of anti virus softwares in these 4 years.
Can anyone suggest me what the best anti virus is?

[harpreet_singh]

I personally like nod32 with its large database .Though Norton is also good but it slows down your pc like hell.

[surfville10]

I am using the AVG 8.0 and Avast Professional Edition. I think my computer is well protected, just make sure to get updates every now and then to ensure protection.

[s_k]

Well a good antivirus is one that not only detects the viruses and trojans but also cleans the system efficiently. Also, most anti viruses use a lot of memory space. Keeping these aspects in mind, AVAST is the best anti virus, if you ask me.

[guru]

I've tried a lot of anti-viruses like Norton, McAffee, Kaspersky, AVG and the like. But Avast seems the best anti-virus I've tried. It updates itself whenever connected to the Internet. So, there's no worry that the database is outdated.

[trekjunkie]

Right now I'm using Norton, mainly because it came with the computer. I use to complain about antivirus/anti pop-up blocker software, but about a week ago I was truly thankful about having antivirus software installed on my computer.

One night, I was listening to music on Windows media player and a message popped up saying that it could not play a song and wanted to know if I would like to go online to receive information about it. Well, I was half asleep and just clicked 'yes' without even thinking about it. The next thing I know, the antivirus software pops up, and tells me that it eliminated a virus threat. I had no idea what was going on but when I maximized my browser window there was a tab that was open and in the address bar a website was trying to load that ended in .exe and we all know what that means.

So never again will I complain about antivirus software being useless :p hehe

[vtte]

I agree. Norton AntiVirus is very easy to use and provides significant protection for your computer. However, there are some conflicts with programs such as clients which connect to the internet or run through a VPN, then you'll need to manually configure or disable it . That's something I'm not happy with. Aside from that, Norton just protected me form a PortScan and a potential hacker attack so I'm happy

[surfzone]

There are lots of anti viruses available in the market. They have different features and depends on the purpose they will serve for instance for server or workstations. But I guess, Avast is a good one since it informs you whenever a threat is detected.

[stylish]

Well, i am using kaspersky and suggest to use it.Because it updates itself when connected to internet and protects the laptop from virus .i always just scan my laptop every week , which feels me better and makes my laptop faster.

[cuitw]

I personally would recommend Avira AntiVirus and AVG, you can just use the free version. They work much better than those you need to pay for in the market such as NOD and norton IMHO. One of my friends was using Norton and he found like 10 virus that Norton(with latest virus definition updated) could not detect with Avira AntiVir. It monitor also web and external device activities. I pluged in an infected USB flash drive the other day and it warned me and gave me the option to delete or quarantine the infected file. It also warn me when I visit websites that are potentially dangerous.

[rcf5005]

I used to use Norton, but the great thing about using mac is that there are far fewer viruses out there for them. Whenever I had an antivirus program on here, it would just make the machine sluggish and warning boxes would always pop up, so I deleted it.

[priyeshu]

Of course Nod32 has a large database and kaspersky will give you updates every 3 hour, but remember cracked version of any antivirus won't help you. Legitimacy of license matters.

[John9]

Try Avast! Antivirus. It's free and good. Norton and Mcafee are too slow in my experience (many other people say so too). They make your computer slow. Antivirus alone is not enough tough as you need antispyware. Antispyware can detect spyware which Antivirus misses.

[7Heartz]

I use Avast! Antivirus now, but I used to use NOD32. In fact, I still have NOD32 installed on my other hard drive; both are wonderful pieces of software that are very useful and can easily detect viruses pretty fast.

[pradeep]

according to me Avast professional edition is the best antivirus
it detects viruses and delete trojan viruses
it consumes less memory

[GaryEarle]

Maybe I am one of the few but I have been running 3 machines connected to the internet for years. One with AVG antivirus and 2 with none. And lo and behold..I have never had a problem with any of them. Granted..I stay off many sites that are questionable and I don't open email from people I don't know. Simple common sense goes a long way ...don't you think??

Gary

[John9]

If you play safe like GaryEarle you probably will never get any kind of computer threat. Viruses and spyware usually come through things like torrent, P2P and download sites. But not all people are that careful some just take the risk and freely do whatever the want on the internet.

[learn2ear]

Well always a problem... No best antivirus protection exists. as virus get updated antivirus protection need to be updated to tackle the new viruses.

Presently ESET NOD 32 antivirus with 50 year validation is the good one. It restricts you from opening the web page which contains virus. So always stop your PC from attacks of viruses. I am presently using Mcafee enterprises version 8.5. I need to change to some other better one.

[John9]

Originally Posted by learn2ear

Well always a problem... No best antivirus protection exists. as virus get updated antivirus protection need to be updated to tackle the new viruses.

Presently ESET NOD 32 antivirus with 50 year validation is the good one. It restricts you from opening the web page which contains virus. So always stop your PC from attacks of viruses. I am presently using Mcafee enterprises version 8.5. I need to change to some other better one.

My PC got attacked by viruses/spyware with NOD32 turned on. I have also used other antiviruses claimed to be the best such as Kaspersky. It also failed to stop some viruses.

[bloggy]

When i was a Windows user, i used to play with a lot of antivirus softwares but most of the times, AVG antivirus did the best job for checking and deleting the viruses in the computer.

Panda and Norton antivirus are the big standard ones but they used to slow down the computer to dead speed while scanning and produced the same results as AVG, now who would want their PC to slow down when the same job is done faster?

But when am on Mac, i never used any antivirus as i never feared of a Virus in mac.

[ava_z]

I have both kaspersky and bitdefender running at the same time. My father bought me a laptop as a birthday gift and it came with kaspersky internet security 8.0 pre-installed. Then I installed Bitdefender internetl security 2008. Bitdefender is much better than kaspersky without any delay of the system's speed. Bitdefender found something kaspersky missed many a time.... There you have it. Indifferent report.

[tektonik]

Some days ago i was using only AVG free edition as my antivirus but my pc got infected yesterday by a whole bunch of trojans, malwares and annoying popups (maybe adwares) which unfortunately AVG could not removed. I soon searched google and downloaded Super Antispyware Free Edition which took about 2 hours to scan my pc and remove all the viruses. My pc is fine now(thanks to Super antispyware).

I don't recommend using only AVG as antivirus software.

[learn2ear]

Well if you use windows they this problem of attacking of virus will continue and we always have to update our antivirus to protect our pc from attacks of new virus.

One permanent solutions would be switching your operating system to linux. As far as I know Linux is very much less affected by virus. Correct me guys if I am wrong?

[boredg]

I have got avast on both my computer and my laptop and it has been great on both of them it doesn't slow them down and it always gives me warnings if it finds errors so good to say it is free as well.

[Oasis]

I have tried almost all antivirus software that are being sold today. My best experience so far is with NOD32. But one day some spyware got into my computer and messed with my NOD32. NOD32 became useless and cannot be updated. I have come to the conclusion that just because you have an antivirus installed, it doesn't mean you are not vulnerable to viruses or spyware.

[Geminiamp]

I've used both Mcafee and Norton and I never really noticed a difference but I didn't have any problems either..

Mcafee was a little annoying though as it seems to prompt you for everything while Norton didn't. So if I had to pick I would go with Norton.

[nitrous]

Look everyone , the anti-virus softwares were tested in US recently . And according to that report , anti-virus softwares like nod32, avance, avg, norton and few other popular anti-viruses are able to detect 99% of the viruses. So the difference between these will be in decimals, not very much. So it doesn't matter what anti-virus you choose. Choose anti- viruses like avg , avance which doesn't slow down your system. In that test Avance was the top scorer which was able to detect 99.7% of the viruses.

[Julklex]

I use linux so AV is not a problem
As far as the Linux/Mac = impenetrable thing, it's completely untrue, it's just that a small small minority use those OS, and linux users especially are usually quite tech-savvy, so making a virus for the aforementioned OS would be a lot less productive than making viruses for an OS that 90% of the world use

But Linux is a safe OS, that's one of the many reasons it's the preferred OS for servers

[born2hack]

Go with Avast its the best out there, reaching from Zip scan to boot scan every problem solved. Detects any virus live and for sure. You can schedule a boot time scan to remove the virus even before your windows load. I am grateful to my friend Rohit for referring me to it.

[crowhit]

i have 2 antivirus in my pc
avast
norton

i like norton because it doesnt effect the performance of pc , scans the pc every time and effectively , removes the dangers.