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04/25/2013 11:59:02 AM · #1 |
PC magazine tested 40+ antivirus programs and declares their top picks for protection.
The Best Antivirus for 2013
If you don't have an antivirus running, you need one and this overview can help you choose one. The one I use, AVG, gets the editor's choice for best free offering.
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04/25/2013 12:28:33 PM · #2 |
Yeah Ive got Kaspersky...Excellent virus protection...but not free
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04/25/2013 12:31:00 PM · #3 |
Doh! My current, Microsoft Security Essentials, gets slammed.
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04/25/2013 12:52:11 PM · #4 |
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04/25/2013 01:37:05 PM · #5 |
If I get the right dog as a pet, will it be enough security?
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04/25/2013 03:46:13 PM · #6 |
Best website for fixing viruses
Message edited by author 2013-04-25 15:46:27. |
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04/25/2013 07:05:15 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Doh! My current, Microsoft Security Essentials, gets slammed. |
To be fair, where they felt MSE fell somewhat short was cleaning up badly infected systems, and it was not the best at malware detection. Well, all I can say is that I have five systems running nothing but MSE, and it just works. I have not had to deal with a virus or malware in *years.* I suppose, YMMV, but hey. I also read their review of Trend Micro, which is, quite frankly, garbage, IMO, being the devil itself to uninstall should you ever need to. Even though they noted severe problems getting it installed and working on a number of systems, they still gave it a decent rating. O well. |
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04/25/2013 07:18:17 PM · #8 |
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04/25/2013 07:55:06 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Doh! My current, Microsoft Security Essentials, gets slammed. |
All of products from the big AV vendors are fine, including MSSE. Kaspersky is probably the best at dealing with cutting edge "0-day" exploits, but if you are doing something with your computer that would cause you to need that kind of protection, you probably shouldn't be doing "that" online. I use MSSE because it's fairly lightweight and I can configure it so that it doesn't delete my malware samples. I've had a problem with other vendors getting a little aggressive at cleaning up my computer. |
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04/27/2013 01:49:11 AM · #10 |
i didnt really use a virus scanner tool for nine plus years - i had the security essentials eventually - but overall i was just careful with my visits, used trusted sites, adblock and script block - ran the rare scan every year online and was in the clear. Until one day - i received an email from a friend. i know her for a while - message seemed innocuousness, and clicked on link she sent - there was some bad stuff packed in there.... had to reformat and stuff to be sure. now i call friends who send random links to confirm source.
what is the general consensus on virus scanning software? necessary? or sortof "if youre not normally paranoid" deal? Theres some tech heavy people here - so i figure might as well ask. |
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04/27/2013 01:53:54 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Devinder:
i didnt really use a virus scanner tool for nine plus years - i had the security essentials eventually - but overall i was just careful with my visits, used trusted sites, adblock and script block - ran the rare scan every year online and was in the clear. Until one day - i received an email from a friend. i know her for a while - message seemed innocuousness, and clicked on link she sent - there was some bad stuff packed in there.... had to reformat and stuff to be sure. now i call friends who send random links to confirm source.
what is the general consensus on virus scanning software? necessary? or sortof "if youre not normally paranoid" deal? Theres some tech heavy people here - so i figure might as well ask. |
Absolutely necessary.
Just go grab AVG Free and be done with it.
Message edited by author 2013-04-27 01:54:13. |
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04/27/2013 07:43:34 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by Ann:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Doh! My current, Microsoft Security Essentials, gets slammed. |
All of products from the big AV vendors are fine, including MSSE. Kaspersky is probably the best at dealing with cutting edge "0-day" exploits, but if you are doing something with your computer that would cause you to need that kind of protection, you probably shouldn't be doing "that" online. I use MSSE because it's fairly lightweight and I can configure it so that it doesn't delete my malware samples. I've had a problem with other vendors getting a little aggressive at cleaning up my computer. |
+1
I've seen many of them in action, in my line of work and they are all more or less fine. To Devinder's question, I'm super paranoid at work - it's in my job description - but not as much at home because it's a different risk factor. You should have at least some idea about your exposure depending on what you do on the computer, like Ann said - and don't forget the inevitable performance impact, especially from those "security suites" which turn everything on and slow your PC down quite a lot.
For example, I use my home PC mainly for photo editing and flight simulation, so it must run as fast as it can when does millions of calculations in flight and both CPU and GPU are smoking from rendering terrain and clouds in HD, calculating flight dynamics and weather, etc. No smartass antivirus should interfere at that time. That's why I'm quite happy with the MSE. But if I step up my usage of that particular PC and start a lot of email correspondence, visiting "questionable" websites, the risk changes and I would probably add some more protection, like web/mail filtering. |
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04/27/2013 09:53:28 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by Devinder:
i didnt really use a virus scanner tool for nine plus years - i had the security essentials eventually - but overall i was just careful with my visits, used trusted sites, adblock and script block - ran the rare scan every year online and was in the clear. Until one day - i received an email from a friend. i know her for a while - message seemed innocuousness, and clicked on link she sent - there was some bad stuff packed in there.... had to reformat and stuff to be sure. now i call friends who send random links to confirm source.
what is the general consensus on virus scanning software? necessary? or sortof "if youre not normally paranoid" deal? Theres some tech heavy people here - so i figure might as well ask. |
Absolutely necessary.
Just go grab AVG Free and be done with it. |
AVG Free has failed me on several occasions. I now use MSSE. And until it fails me, I will use and recommend it.
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04/27/2013 10:45:30 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Devinder:
what is the general consensus on virus scanning software? necessary? or sortof "if youre not normally paranoid" deal? Theres some tech heavy people here - so i figure might as well ask. |
Necessary but not sufficient. Think of AV like you think of a bicycle lock. It will keep some kid from just jumping on your bike and riding away, but it won't stop someone who comes by with power tools. AV will catch the bulk of what's floating around out there, but there's stuff that no AV will catch, so you still need to be careful about what links you click on, and what software you install. |
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04/28/2013 12:26:24 AM · #15 |
I run Kaspersky on my Sony Vaio Duo, because it came pre installed and uninstalling virus protection to install another can sometime be problematic.
I run Avast on the rest of my Windows based computers and have not had viral issues on any of them.
Then again, as mentioned above, I don't do those knid of things that would be at high risk for brand new viruses. |
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04/28/2013 04:13:55 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by Ann:
Originally posted by Devinder:
what is the general consensus on virus scanning software? necessary? or sortof "if youre not normally paranoid" deal? Theres some tech heavy people here - so i figure might as well ask. |
Necessary but not sufficient. Think of AV like you think of a bicycle lock. It will keep some kid from just jumping on your bike and riding away, but it won't stop someone who comes by with power tools. AV will catch the bulk of what's floating around out there, but there's stuff that no AV will catch, so you still need to be careful about what links you click on, and what software you install. |
I think mostof the AV protection software is about the same. Granted Everyone is sick of the main 2 Maccaffee and Nortons/symetec all the bells and whistes and irritations with the crap causing issues well with everything you try to do. BTW those can be adjusted but free is the key! AVG Avast etc they work about as good as the Kaspersky's and Trend will with most attacks. It is the end user that can cause the most damage just by not paying attention to what they click on, download or reply to. Three rules to surviving on the internet virus free. 1 Have some sort of protection pay or free. 2 trust yur sites or dont go there and if you do. 3 have a way to clean it up ready on hand. Burn a disk possible a 7boot disk. You pretty much can stop with rkill then run malwarebytes 3 passes at least. Kaskersky has free virus scannner and rootkit killer. Oh and get rid of the ask tool bar, well get rid of all tool bars leaving ones you installed on purpose. Oh and have a junk mail email account. One you use to sign up on a site or when a website gets your email. Even the chain stores that like to send you inbox millions of ads. Then have a personal and a business account that way you have separated every aspect. Oh and Backup! Backup! Backup! |
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04/28/2013 04:17:44 AM · #17 |
| Best tool for uninstalling AV's Revo Uninstaller |
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04/28/2013 06:25:33 AM · #18 |
Running AVG, Avast and Malware Bytes.
There's a virus notorious in my university that pretty much obliterates all data. To completely remove it I have to go on cmd and pick a fight with it.
My USB caught it again and while all my antiviruses found it I still had some trouble getting rid of it so I'm slightly worried and maybe need something better for the supervirus. (Although some time back nothing would catch this virus so there is improvement. Maybe after a couple more updates the supervirus obliteration would become flawless)
Message edited by author 2013-04-28 06:39:55. |
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