Antivirus Guide & User Reviews.

[Skud]

Outpost asks lesser questions but protection level is more or less same. With Comodo, I sometimes feels its a bit paranoid!!! But yes, its solid.

 

[coderunknown]

Well I personally prefer different protection from different companies. Like Firewall from Comodo, AV from Avira or Avast, Anti Spyware from Spybot Search and Destroy.

thats exactly what i told. a combination of security products from different companies.

Outpost asks lesser questions but protection level is more or less same. With Comodo, I sometimes feels its a bit paranoid!!! But yes, its solid.

ZoneAlarm, Comodo & Outpost (not to miss OnlineArmour) are all top Firewalls. & their free solutions are the same as their paid ones. just after paying you get some extra features that you may never use.

 

[Tech.Masti]

IObit software released their anti-malware software..... they have both free and paid versions........ check...

IObit Malware Fighter | Free Anti-Malware | Free Trojan Remover - IObit

 

[coderunknown]

thats a crap. used security 360 & the early beta of Malware Fighter. nothing changed. never detected anything. Super Antispyware, Malwarebytes Antimalware, Emsisoft Antimalware work much better & detects spywares. will wait for a good review from CNet or Softpedia.

 

[mrintech]

AntiVirus Name: Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 - 1 User License
Free or Paid: Paid
Price in INR [If Paid]: Got it from eBay India and AFAIR around 450 bucks
Protection Type: Complete Internet Security with Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware

Ratings out of 5:
User Friendly: 5
Detection Rate: 5
Price: 4
Overall: 4.5

Recommend to Use: Yes
Comments: Sometimes Update Process is Resource Hungry and Anti-Spyware needs improvement. Firewall and Anti-Virus are more than AWESOME

P.S.: I also recommend Bit Difender because of its Awesome Detection Rate

 

[thetechfreak]

Recommend to Use: Yes

I answer this as no.

Its update system needs a complete over haul. Never get speed above 20 kbps.
So I will term the current KIS as #fail.
No offence

 

[mrintech]

I answer this as no.

Its update system needs a complete over haul. Never get speed above 20 kbps.
So I will term the current KIS as #fail.
No offence

Seems like you had a very bad experience with KIS

Anyways it's great for me

 

[Tech.Masti]

ya.... kaspersky update is quite slow, and it also make my pc quite slow...... other things are good, they should think about make it lite.....

 

[sygeek]

The only Anti-virus worth using nowadays is Microsoft Security Essentials else you are just use infected PenDrives and download "bad" stuff which contain them. I've hardly encountered any virus these many years except some infected pen drives which were later vaccinated with Panda USB Vaccine. Else if you still encounter them, well I can just call you an average user for now.

 

[thetechfreak]

When I gave Panda USB vaccine a try I found it slow.(erratic performance)

BTW. the built in USB drive protector in Quick Heal is very good. Its very fast and scans most Pen-Drives in no time. The detection is also very good.

 

[sygeek]

:O Panda USB vaccine is a very small software without any resource hog. It runs fine on my crapware, not slow at all!

 

[MegaMind]

Using Eset smart security for the past 4 years... PC s safe n Sound...

 

[topgear]

I use No Autorun + Avira AntiViR Free + Comodo + Malware Byets Antimalware + All Latest OS and applications updates and this kept me safe so far

 

[Tech.Masti]

^^^^good combination...... but i think antivir free can blocks autorun.inf from pen drive automatically.......and i do not like comodo..... to much questions BTW, everybody has his personal choice.....

 

[thetechfreak]

@topgear
Add Spybot Search & Destroy to you're combination to do the occasional scan
It is slow. But those guys are in serious shortage of money.

Overall, I think its very good. The "immunising" of browsers seems to help a lot too.

 

[furious_gamer]

^^^^good combination...... but i think antivir free can blocks autorun.inf from pen drive automatically.......and i do not like comodo..... to much questions BTW, everybody has his personal choice.....

Yes Avira free can stop the autorun.inf and of all the AV's i used till date, i feel Avira is good and not irritating as much as Kaspersky or Avast used to.

 

[topgear]

^^^^good combination...... but i think antivir free can blocks autorun.inf from pen drive automatically.......and i do not like comodo..... to much questions BTW, everybody has his personal choice.....

@topgear
Add Spybot Search & Destroy to you're combination to do the occasional scan
It is slow. But those guys are in serious shortage of money.

Overall, I think its very good. The "immunising" of browsers seems to help a lot too.

I use No Autorun as a double protection - had an incident where I've load all apps and games and it took 2 days as I've to delete HDD partions beacuse of a virus that spread through USB flash drive.

Spybot S&D was once my most favorite app but with it's HUGE database the scanning speed is now too slow and this puts heavy load on my old rig - so I don't use it. They need to revamp the scanning engine.

BTW, Here's some more security apps you guys might find interesting

Dr.Web CureIt
SpywareBlaster
SuperAntispyware

 

[Tech.Masti]

^^^^
spybot now claming......

Spybot-Search & Destroy 2.0 beta has a modern appearance but it isn't just the design that has changed. Discover the fast performance, enjoy the completely automated updates and new command center that will suit both new and advanced users.

The home of Spybot-S&D!

 

[thetechfreak]

Spybot S&D was once my most favorite
app but with it's HUGE database the
scanning speed is now too slow and
this puts heavy load on my old rig - so
I don't use it. They need to revamp the
scanning engine.

Actually it keeps proccesor usage 100% in most pc's but still has no real speed.
Lets see what version 2.0 do

 

[monkey]

My KIS 2011 subscription is expiring and I am thinking of shifting to BitDefender. KIS slows down the booting time and its upgradation process is not very smooth. So is shifting to BitDefender a good idea?