which AV has best adware/spyware/trojan real-time detection?

[lodore]

Originally Posted by Firecat

Yep, the PUP test from AV-comparatives is all you need. But keep in mind that in order to have effective real-time spyware protection, you should use Windows 2000 or XP.

i cant find the pups report where on the site is it and what it called?
lodore

[lodore]

Originally Posted by WSFuser

id say KAV for adware/spyware/trojan detection.

agreed!
lodore

[WSFuser]

click on the link provided by IBK and near the bottom, u should find teh report.

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3180/sshot1li3.png

[phasechange]

Originally Posted by coldplay

yes, i was referring to free versions of those 3. from screenshot I saw, Active virus shield has aol ads on its interface, I didn't that. thank you for the reminder

Hmmm I have been using this for some time now and cannot see any Adverts at all apart from the AOL logo...

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/avs.png

which isn't that much bigger than the Kaspersky bit and who hangs around in the main antivirus interface anyway. I usually just see this:

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/icon.png

highlighted by red circle for presentation purposes.

I wouldn't call a logo an "ad" I'd say it was no more intrusive than any other AV and a small price for top rate antivirus. This smacks of AOL-phobia to me

Phasechange

[C.S.J]

Originally Posted by phasechange

Hmmm I have been using this for some time now and cannot see any Adverts at all apart from the AOL logo...

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/avs.png

which isn't that much bigger than the Kaspersky bit and who hangs around in the main antivirus interface anyway. I usually just see this:

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/icon.png

highlighted by red circle for presentation purposes.

I wouldn't call a logo an "ad" I'd say it was no more intrusive than any other AV and a small price for top rate antivirus. This smacks of AOL-phobia to me

Phasechange

hmmm, but the aol version is only free for the first year (so i was told) and ... it doesnt have all features, doesnt even have the proactive defence (or so im told)

[Don Pelotas]

Originally Posted by phasechange

Hmmm I have been using this for some time now and cannot see any Adverts at all apart from the AOL logo...

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/avs.png

which isn't that much bigger than the Kaspersky bit and who hangs around in the main antivirus interface anyway. I usually just see this:

http://ossian.myby.co.uk/icon.png

highlighted by red circle for presentation purposes.

I wouldn't call a logo an "ad" I'd say it was no more intrusive than any other AV and a small price for top rate antivirus. This smacks of AOL-phobia to me

Phasechange

You will only see ad's if you select the AOL toolbar during the install...........most deselect it.

[Don Pelotas]

Originally Posted by C.S.J

hmmm, but the aol version is only free for the first year (so i was told) and ... it doesnt have all features, doesnt even have the proactive defence (or so im told)

Hmmmm.... but it kicks AVG & Trend-micro butt even without the PDM.

No one knows if it will stay free and so what? You would have used Kaspersky free for a year and who knows you might even have liked it so much that you end up buying it because you want those extra modules!

Originally Posted by Don Pelotas

No one knows if it will stay free

No one is too strong word , don't you think

[Don Pelotas]

Originally Posted by HiTech_boy

No one is too strong word , don't you think

Yes, perhaps, but i feel comfortable using it.

[coldplay]

~direct download of pdf removed....Bubba~

from the test result at AV-C.org, I would have to assume avast! 4 home has got the best result in all 4 free AVs(antivir,avast, avg, avs) ?

all the testes are paid version so we dont exactly know how's free version
performance.

antivir free: no spyware/adware detection , it stated clearly on its site
AVG free: no anti-spyware, it stated clearly on its site
avast free : it has most feature of its paid version. Which it lacks seems has nothing to do with anti-spyware.
AVS: I am told its a lame version of Kas. I have no idea how much it gets from Kas.

So avast is pretty much the best PUP detector in freewares and pretty much the worst in paid AVs, right ?


PS. above comments just for the discussion, and they are my assumptions.
I am using antivir free and spysweeper now.

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[SourMilk]

KIS6 works for me.

SourMilk out

[trjam]

Antivir continues to show at the top in all areas. At least for me, it meets all of the criteria of this thread.

[woobook]

Antivir has a top rate in the test of AV-comparatives, but it is a on-demand rate. Nobody can offer a rate based on real-time.

I think the real-time rate is just the most important rate, because nobody scans his hard-drives everyday.

In Oct the test from AV-comparatives show Antivir's rate was 96%, do you think it has 96% of real-time rate?

[IBK]

yes, usually on-demand and on-access rates do not differ much (if at all). on-execution some few products may have higher (prevention) rates (e.g. those that have a registry guard, etc.)

[Rasheed187]

OK so according to the PUP test, it´s not true at all that AV´s perform badly when it comes to detecting spyware and other stuff? Or perhaps you should test with spyware samples alone IBK?
But it´s nice to see that 2 of my favorites (KAV and AntiVir) are doing well.

[Chuck57]

I think I picked up a few weeks on my AOL (Kaspersky). I downloaded it when I saw it first listed here, ran it for a while, then took it out and cleaned every trace before trying another, including running a registry cleaner.

When I went back to avs on Nov 15, it now says it expires on Nov 15 2007. The way my old, tired, computer is running lately, I'll be forced into a new one by then, anyway.