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What is your preferred Anti Virus Product?





Looking to see what everyones favorite is. Feel free to comment below on the antivirus of your choice or to add one PCWEEK missed... List compiled mostly from PCWeek top Antivirus list (I can only save 10 choices).
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What is your preferred Anti Virus Product? 36 votes
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Eset and bitdefender(s) score 100% on detection, surprised, a previous favourite of mine, the popular malwarebytes just 82% (I changed to bitdefender a few years ago, no issues so far)
Of course the selection of test samples may affect results, though I believe Choice use tech resources from many affiliate Choice organisations around the world. (I hope they don't cancel me for this.)
Rick
AVS solution penalize to much the performance of a computer, but if in need, you can't argued with it.
Norton WAS a good one, ages ago... now, not so much, is really annoying.
In my work, they use McAfee's Security Suit, not bad, but if not tuned, it crunch your CPU like I do with popcorn at movies (they doesn't last till the real movie xD).
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Thanks. I’ll give it a shot.
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-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
@Marc I played with BitDefender for a year with my Mac. Loved the Windows version, not so much the Mac one. Switched to MalwareBytes and not looked back since. Two years now, not one issue.
Kaspersky is my favorite my second is Sophos
I have a MAC at home, so no antivirus. 😬
I use ClamAV on demand when /if I doubt about repetitive unusual system errors. It happened a couple of times in about ten years but no viruses, the root cause was different.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
A/V is not the only issue. Remember, we need to protect IOT devices too. I prefer going to a single source. I was using Norton on my Mac, Windows, iOS and Android as well as Norton core router protecting my home network including IOT devices. ButNorton abandoned that product line. Norton core also had an issue with about a 15-20% hit on traffic speeds. I have just switched to an ASUS router product for whole home network protect with their AIProtect feature and Trend Micro A/V for all my other devices. Having single source helps prevent compatibility issues, gives consistent look and feel across platforms and simplifies renewal/administration issues. Since switching I am happy with the TrendMicro products.
Most of us tend to by these products mostly on the false thought that Paid Solutions MUST be better, and offer more features, such as Firewall, Malware Protection, Email Scanning, etc... Windows Defender does all of that as well!
Right now, I have to question why I am paying for Avast, I guess for me, Avast has always been my security blanket however, that is sim,ply all it is. There is no real benefit to a paid solution.
https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/real-world-protection-test-jul-aug-2019-factsheet/
lengthy comparison with metodologies
Windows defender is very good, but has 2 main problems.
1) too many false positives
2) it is the base defense system of windows. Therefore everybody and their cousin will try and best that one defense against their "infiltration methods"
on the other hand:
1) one of the best protections (protects against PIRBCAK problems rather welllllll... but also see the large number of false positives)
2) by itself it's very very hard to compromise a system protected by defender alone (but also means little to no control left to the user unless one has advanced system knowledge)
Which leads back to (essentially) main problem #2 everybody and their cousin are going to test their malicious software so that users will do what asked.
Which means social engineering.
Which means to protect from social engineering even more control will be eventually removed from the end user.
Basically my main reason not to recommend windows defender to people it that it's like invasive training wheels that really do not wish to let you do what you want but want to keep you safe.
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-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Choice au testing puts ms defender well below eset 100%, bitdefender 100%, avast, nortons, avg and more on 20 odd types of threat, BUT, so far I can not get a list of the threats used. I will ask them directly this week and post it if possible.
Another test site that "might" be worth checking. (No threat list!)
https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/august-2019/