What's the Best Anti-virus?

TZ , i use to use SAS but before it changed it's look , i have not heard as much positive feedback from the newer one . I used to think it was great , had very good detection and often found things others missed , was especially good at detecting Trojans imo.

ICIT2LOL said:

I also know my AV does a lot more than just deal with virusus , it warns of Phishing attempts, possible bad links etc... I refer to all undesirable things as malware , it's a very broad reaching term

Yep jonny mate I have been using KISS for the last five years and MBAM Pro on the main desktop and free on the other deskies plus the laptops.

What I like about Kaspersky is it is really well rated and I don't know about where you are but here I get a price that equates to $0.035 a day and to me that is as good as free and comes with support.

The SAS I find quite a useful tool though because the KISS doesn't pick up everything and the current version I have has had a few bugs that has been very uncharacteristic.

I also like the other Kaspersky scanners too - TDSS Killer and the rescue disk both excellent tools.

I know I have quoted this site many times but for those who are looking for free stuff it is in my mind the best.


Best Free Antivirus Software They have changed the GUI a bit and it now takes a bit of digging around but a ton of good info and not just AV stuff and this is the AV stuff Free Windows Desktop Software Security List

With you 100% ICIT2LOL, i don't pay full price for Kas , you can usually get it very cheap at certain times of the year. It is also very important to me to have an AV that consistently gets very high ratings and i have found Kasperskys forums and tech support to be very good.

They have a lot of good tools as you said but the main thing to me is i have not been compromised since using it so thats the bottom line.

I didn't check your link yet but is that Gizmo's freeware ? That is one of my favorite all time sites , just fabulous .


Ha ha ha , yes it's Gizmos , that site is amazing .

CNET is atrocious , i would never download from there . From what i hear even ' Sourceforge" isn't safe anymore.

I don't use Kaspersky anymore, though I kinda miss it. I am using Avast Internet Security with Panda Antivirus Free. But I am stuck on what is the best team to use of to fight off all kinds of spyware, adware, and malware. Lots of different tools out there, Malwarebytes often recommended the most (and I have the free version of it) but I'm not exactly sure how top-notch it is in terms of browser hijacking and whatnot.

compwiz02 said:

I don't use Kaspersky anymore, though I kinda miss it. I am using Avast Internet Security with Panda Antivirus Free. But I am stuck on what is the best team to use of to fight off all kinds of spyware, adware, and malware. Lots of different tools out there, Malwarebytes often recommended the most (and I have the free version of it) but I'm not exactly sure how top-notch it is in terms of browser hijacking and whatnot.

Your using Avast internet security and Panda anti virus ? Are you using one for an on demand scanner or running both in real time?

The latest virus bulletin results shows Avira with the highest RAP percentage score but I'm not really sure what RAP is. Panda has gotten some really good reviews and is supposed to be better than Avast. I got Panda running as an antivirus at the same time as Avast which is my internet security. Avast is pretty good with detecting programs. Like I said, I would always recommend Kaspersky....don't remember why I removed it but I like what I got now.