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PowerHouse
AntiVirus Name: McAfee Total Protection 2011 3 Users 1 Year.
Free or Paid: Paid
Price in INR [If Paid]: Rs. 1950.00
Protection Type: Includes antivirus for both X86 & X64 OS, Siteadvisor, Online Backup of 2GB per User, Mail Cleaner, Network Watch & of course Firewall too.

Mine too ~!

Already we have one review about it, which is not quite old.

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thetechfreak

Legend Never Ends
Housecall is an online antivirus which helps to clean deeply infected PC's. It is NOT a replacement for Real time protection AV's like Norton,etc
 

tkin

Back to school!!
AntiVirus Name: Avast Free Antivirus V6
Free or Paid: Free, Registration required, takes 30 secs and can be done from antivirus control panel, no nagging for paid version, no email verification needed, you can registered using anything, even false info.
Price in INR [If Paid]: N.A
Protection Type:: Virus, trojan, keylogger, rootkit detection, network checking for malicious entry, redirects port 80 requests(browsing) to analyze websites and block malicious websites and malicious scripts present in webpages.
Resource Consumption: Virtually nil, never faced slow down even with my HP 530 laptop, consuming just 5MB ram running in background, updates are fetched 2-3 times everyday, all updates(virus definitions) are less than few hundred KBs every time, useful for limited bandwidth users like me.


Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 4.8/5
Detection Rate: 4.8/5(for me, till today it had missed only 2 files, and no. of false positives are virtually nil scanning over plenty of "Modified" exes)
Performance: 5/5
Price: 5/5
Overall: 4.9/5

Recommend to Use: Highly recommended.
Comments: You need to use a firewall alongside this, I suggest comodo firewall(no defense+, just firewall).

FYI I had never been infected ever as long as I had been using me pc and I do visit "Sharing" websites, its probably due to my browsing habit buy anyway avast 6.0 is highly recommended by me.
 

MatchBoxx

the m0nk who sold his PC!
AntiVirus Name: Avast Free Antivirus V6
Free or Paid: Free, Registration required, takes 30 secs and can be done from antivirus control panel, no nagging for paid version, no email verification needed, you can registered using anything, even false info.
Price in INR [If Paid]: N.A
Protection Type:: Virus, trojan, keylogger, rootkit detection, network checking for malicious entry, redirects port 80 requests(browsing) to analyze websites and block malicious websites and malicious scripts present in webpages.
Resource Consumption: Virtually nil, never faced slow down even with my HP 530 laptop, consuming just 5MB ram running in background, updates are fetched 2-3 times everyday, all updates(virus definitions) are less than few hundred KBs every time, useful for limited bandwidth users like me.


Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 4.8/5
Detection Rate: 4.8/5(for me, till today it had missed only 2 files, and no. of false positives are virtually nil scanning over plenty of "Modified" exes)
Performance: 5/5
Price: 5/5
Overall: 4.9/5

Recommend to Use: Highly recommended.
Comments: You need to use a firewall alongside this, I suggest comodo firewall(no defense+, just firewall).

FYI I had never been infected ever as long as I had been using me pc and I do visit "Sharing" websites, its probably due to my browsing habit buy anyway avast 6.0 is highly recommended by me.

ever used Microsoft Security Essentials???
 

Skud

Super Moderator
Staff member
Currently using the following:-

1. Avast Free
2. Emsisoft Antimalware (3 year license)
3. Outpost Firewall Pro (lifetime license)

And Acronis TrueImage Home 2011 and FreeFileSync for backup purposes. I think I am pretty well covered as far as security goes.
 

tkin

Back to school!!
Well I do use Spybot S&D alongside avast, the new beta version is very much improved.
 

Skud

Super Moderator
Staff member
Much improved, but still not the best in the class. Malwarebytes or Superantispyware are much better, but of course, for realtime protection you have to pay.
 

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
Currently using the following:-

1. Avast Free
2. Emsisoft Antimalware (3 year license)
3. Outpost Firewall Pro (lifetime license)

And Acronis TrueImage Home 2011 and FreeFileSync for backup purposes. I think I am pretty well covered as far as security goes.

emsisoft & avast doesn't conflict?

Well I do use Spybot S&D alongside avast, the new beta version is very much improved.

please post a short review of the new Spybot as you did with Avast. i haven't it yet.
 

TheMost

Simply.. Evolution !!
Hmm, avast takes 5-10mb, any other av that takes that low?

No, As far as i know avast is the only decent AV which occupies that low memory ( The reason i left that was
1) It has a web shield which acts like a proxy and scans behind while browsing - taking almost 50% of network making it a network hog !
2) Misses an enough amount f spyware ( at least that can be overcome by scanning occasionally with emsisoft anti-malware -free )

The next AV from my choice in norton internet security 2011 occupies around 13MB-16MB ( overall protection + very very good performer )
 
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