Hello, I'm looking to see what is the best anti-virus / spyware / malware / adware / etc program (hopefully an all-in-one) that isn't mcafee or norton anti virus. I like avg, spybot, malwarebytes ... is there something that has it all? I download a lot of torrents on my downloading laptop and i'd like to keep it free from intruders. thanks
for firewall i use the built in windows firewall, and thats it. I do this only on my personal machine because i know whats safe, whats not, and when something hinky is up. on my brother/dad computers, i have Comodo Firewall/AV and Windows Security Essentials, with settings mostly automated so they dont get confused by cryptic warnings. I do have a USB stick for code red situations, it has Spybot, MalwareBytes, HijackThis, and a couple of file recovery tools i cant remember at the moment. other firewall programs that i have had good experience with is the ZoneLabs suite, and BitDefender Firewall. Zonelabs is easier to setup and use, BitDefender is a more technical program with advanced networking features.
i dont use antivirus at all and i downloaded hell lots of jav/anime/kdrama/softwares etc etc. I just format everything anything goes wrong. It works for me. Edit : i dont think theres one software have it all, but AVG free version is good enough on its own i think.
Microsoft Security Essentials. It's light weight, it updates with windows. and its 100% free! Read reviews about it, it is very good, uses little to no resources, and its very effective.
G Data, - indeed Avira has a good detection rate but also much false positives and huge problems to remove a trojan. So take G Data, fuck off spybot shit and all this crap you should just also take Hijackthis. Remove the remain, play the game.
NOD32 still works perfect and its sometimes a little better than AVG Darn lolson was little faster than me lol
I use Avast Internet Security and I love it. It actually smoked Symantec Endpoint Protection and found 4 more virii on my system... so I stuck with it.
Nod32 nothing thats free, you get what you pay for right, but if you just need to do a scan for viruses use malwarebytes Its what we used when I worked at bestbuy its good for a quick scan
All virus's / malware can be made undetected from any/all antivirus application quite easily, if you have a "virus" on your pc its already too late all you infomation is probs been stolen and your more than likely part of a bonnet. Solution: Reformat windows / get nix.
i use NOD32 and since i have used that i have gotten no rootkits (keyloggers) and im even playing without a blizz auth on my bot account