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kalos77 kalos77
 
December 20, 2008 05:40 AM

who is the best antivirus?

symantec,norton,eset nod32,bittdefender ...
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clarusvisu... clarusvisu...
 
 December 20, 2008 05:45 AM
ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

"It has been tested 52 times by Virus Bulletin with a success rate of 96%,[6] the highest pass rate of the tested anti-virus products."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nod32#Reception
http://www.eset.com/products/compare.php
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE14



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roo5ter roo5ter
 
December 20, 2008 06:37 PM
I second NOD32. It has the best success rate and smallest memory footprint of all AVs. I am an IS Manager for a 250 desk company and have had fewer virus-related trouble calls running NOD32 than Symantec or Trend Micro.

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phpcook phpcook
 
December 20, 2008 06:08 AM
McAfee is the best antivirus and also AVG.

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uclabruin4... uclabruin4...
 
December 20, 2008 06:18 AM
I like NOD32 and AVG is also very good.

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richonion richonion
 
December 20, 2008 06:25 AM
Avira - www.free-av.com is the best free antivirus i've been using since 2007.

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jdurban jdurban
 
December 20, 2008 10:13 AM
Avira is awful. It missed items that that the free version of AVG caught. I paid full price for Avira and I regretted it.

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pescina pescina
 
December 20, 2008 06:33 AM
AVG or linux.

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offthedome offthedome
 
December 20, 2008 07:27 AM
I'm a big fan of mcafee simply because I've been virus free for an extremely long time, and it doesn't slow down my computer.

I'm not a fan of norton at all. it makes my computer go like a mile an hour. Go with mcafee.

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jdurban jdurban
 
December 20, 2008 10:20 AM
The best value is the free version of AVG. Unfortunately AVG's retail price is too high. No anti-virus should ever cost more than $29.95 and it should cover every machine in the same I.P. Address. Charging extra for each user in a household is counter intuitive.

There's a reason why Rapidshare is in the top 100 sites in the world and its due to grossly over priced software.
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taffy71 taffy71
 
December 21, 2008 03:05 AM
I think AVAST has the best Anti virus software.

For a commercial product, Kaspersky is one of the best there is. It is constantly at ro close to the top from most reviewers.
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www.avast.com
www.kaspersky.com


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saifuddinm... saifuddinm...
 
December 21, 2008 03:27 AM
I second Avast. I have been an AVG fan for almost 3 years - but lately AVG seems to be disappointing. It seems to have loads of features I don't need - Link Scanner and the likes.

Also the updates are huge - almost 30 MB every alternate day. Does not seem to protect me any better either. So I switched to avast and it seems to be doing a pretty decent Job.

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jonathanro... jonathanro...
 
December 23, 2008 12:04 AM
After trying several I am happiest with Panda Internet Security for coverage, load/ resource usage and scan time.

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