How is AntiVir when compared to KAV, McAffe or NOD32?

[tempnexus]

I know that BestBuy Geek Squad is useing AntiVir and I wonder how good is it when compared to the solutions listed in the title?

[Notok]

I would never expect to see a free AV compare to a paid one, especially the heavy hitters like KAV and NOD32.

[bigc73542]

And antivir is not even in the same league as mcafee antivir



and mcafee

and http://www.av-comparatives.org/

[TopperID]

AntiVir has a better detection rate than several of the paid for AVs, but it does not do as well as the really big hitters - if it did then nobody would bother paying for an AV at all!

Having said that, I have seen tests in which it has performed comparable to Nod. It's one point of relative weakness is with trojans; but if you combined it with an AT you would have good all round protection.

[JimIT]

Temp,

BestBuy apparently uses several AVs to do their repairs. From personal experience with them here in Texas, they also use F-PROT for DOS, as well as Norton.

FWIW...

[Firefighter]

Originally Posted by TopperID

Having said that, I have seen tests in which it has performed comparable to Nod. It's one point of relative weakness is with trojans; but if you combined it with an AT you would have good all round protection.

I'll be sure that AntiVir combined with Ewido is very close to McAfee VSE 8.0i. Unfortunately I have not got my sample collection that AntiVir missed, because it was not able to move infected archives like DrWeb, so that I could check the combo result.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showt...2&page=1&pp=25

Quite cheap realtime protection, total cost 27.96 $.

Best regards,
Firefighter!

[RejZoR]

AntiVir is a very good AV,i only wish they would add autoupdater with incrimental updates. It would took load off their servers and make users happier.