Avast Pro Vs. Bitdefender 8 Vs Antivir PE

I'm testing BitDefender 8 Standard and it appears to be a very good program. It's not heavy,updates are regular (every day,even on weekends). Memory usage is also within normal levels. Also score on Jotti and other tests was very good.

 

I too am confused Abhi. Yesterday you were asking about ETrust, and after discussion you said that you were going to go with Avast Pro.

See post 8 & 10
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=71691

If you just purchased Avast why would you not use it??

 

Maybe he uses a keygen

 

I am very sorry if i created such a notion that I use a keygen. Well, after I paid for Avast, I visited loads of security websites which all had diferent test results. So I got really confused. I am very concerned about my data on my system. Its the work of several years. Thats all!
If using keygens was my way, I would not look around for free products like Antivir and Bitdefender 8.

Regards
Abhishek

 

I think that you will be protected fine with Avast Pro. If you want to use Bitdefender as a backup it would certainly help with a layered defense.

I think that if you really want to protect your info, I would use a tool that takes a snapshot of your system. I forget the product names right now, but I will find them if someone does not come along who knows better.

 

Here is one that has been talked about before

http://www.superwin.com/index.htm

I hope it helps.

 

Thanks a lot. I am now looking for system restore and recovery tools.

 

i think u might be talking about adinf, its an intergrrity checker and it takes a snapshot of ur comp.

 

Thanks. This ADINF is a great tool. That too for free. I feel it should be promoted adequately. Its quite a different virus protection tool.

 

Due to the issue of system files and I/O errors, Avast features a offline scanner, try that and you will see that all your system files get scanned on boot, this way, any infected system files can be detected and repaired, this feature is lacking in any of the online scanners.

 

Can you provide me with a link to this "offline scanner" ? I didnt quite understand what were u talking about, so please provide me with a link. Is it FREE??

Regards

 

avast! Home Edition is free for non-commercial (personal) usage.
Term "Offline" is usually used for tasks performed at boot-time (before Windows actually load)

 

FirstDefense seems to be popular with a number of members here;

http://www.raxco.co.uk/product.asp?ProductID=79
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=71543&highlight=firstdefense
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=54766&highlight=firstdefense

 

Abhishek,

Just a general comment, from the way this thread is evolving, starting at Avast Pro/Bitdefender 8/Antivir PE while now assessing restore and recovery tools, you need to step back and approach this from a more global perspective.

At the end of the day you want a good solution that fits your needs and accomplishes certain objectives. There are already two very distinct topics potentially being covered in this thread, that defocuses the discussion and the title limits potential participation if the subject strays from the initial title.

Reaching your goals requires some amount of preplanning regarding what's important in your eyes and what your real objectives are. Is it ultimate data/file protection, minimal system impact, privacy, or minimal overall cost? How are you going to balance these conflicting objectives? Which are you willing to trade-off? What do you have in-place now?

Articulate specifically what you wish to accomplish, then assess the options available to realize those goals. This might seem something of a backtrack, but it generally helps to globally speed things along.

Blue

 

Quick question, a bit OT but will installing Antivir give problems when you already have installed KAV? I'm not planning to run them at the same time of course.

 

Hi Rasheed197

I don't think that you will have some problem, but make sure that you disable the active scanner of AntiVir...

 

Hi VaMPiRiC_CRoW, longtime not seen, next year WC 2006 in Germany, we are going to get revenge on Greece.

And thanks for the tip, I'm thinking about using AntiVir as my realtime scanner, because of my slow system I can't use KAV for that purpose.

 

You see me "sometimes" on Maxthon forum...

About Greece, it's the life...
Only the firsts counts...

I've a fast notebook but I also can't use KAV because of his instability on my system, but I prefer NOD32...
I tested the new incoming version and works very well, so let us waiting to see what's happen...
AntiVir is a great free AV, but lacks some features like email client scanner, incremental updates, but if you don't mind with this...

Regards