List of Various AVs' Downsides

Hopefully this thread doesn't get locked. The intention is not to have an A vs. B debate, but to tell the agreed on downsides of each AV, whether it is buggy, resource-heavy, upgrade nagging, false-positives, etc, etc.

I would like to include the AVs on AV-Comparatives, and the other main ones not included on it. I believe the format should be as below:

AV X
- Downside
- Downside

AV Y
- Downside
- Downside

So it should include:

Avast!
AVG
Avira
BitDefender
eScan
ESET NOD32
F-Secure
GDATA
K7
Kaspersky
McAfee
Microsoft
Panda
PC Tools
Qihoo 360
Sophos
Symantec or Norton
Trend Micro
Trustport
Webroot

and

Dr.Web
Comodo
Outpost
Vipre

others

 

I think this is most likely just going to make some people defensive about their favorite AV and lead to arguments....

 

Most of the av's need to improve self protection .. especially MSE
bitdefender- slow , bloated
Norton- deletes files , no way to recover
mcafee- no 1 cares
panda , avast-they are gonna address the problems in version 2 and 7 respectively
vipre-slow scans
Kaspersky-very slow on many many systems
eset-v5 released too early maybe

 

You're playing with fire with this thread.

 

Hi Brandonn2010,
I agree with Kerodo, it will eventually lead to an argument.

Best Regards,
Ziaul

 

Panda Cloud & Vipre - too much disk i/o
Comodo - puts too much on user to decide what is safe/bad
Norton & Panda Cloud - deletes stuff without asking
Avira & MSE - suck at zero day protection
Kaspersky, F-Secure, McAfee, G-Date - too heavy
Twister - no 64bit support
Bitdefender - slow web surfing
Immunet Protect & McAfee- stinks at just about everything

 

I see this thread being closed.

 

LOL How is this not A vs B?

 

Depends on the interpretation. I mean look at all the threads posted about various tests the past day or two. Are those A vs. B?

 

Point well made, Clocks. However, I agree with the others. This thread is just begging to turn into a back and forth between people.

 

Avast!
-Needs to improve their signature based detections according to some random tests
AVG
-Needs to improve signature based detections also
Avira
-Relies too much on signature based detections (Which is not necessarily bad but they are getting outdated)
BitDefender
-A bit heavy according to some users
ESET NOD32
-Same as Avira they are getting a bit outdated (Which is not necessarily bad but they are loosing the game)
GDATA
-A bit heavy also
Kaspersky
-High IO and Heavy in my system
McAfee
-Lame detections but is pretty light on my bros laptop
Panda
-Haven't seen much improvement but their Cloud AV is getting back on track
PC Tools
-No longer being constantly developed
Symantec or Norton
-Relies too much on cloud
Trend Micro
-Outdated
Trustport
-Heavy
Webroot
-Let's see if they have something new with PrevX
Comodo
-Not friendly

 

Why haven't you commented anything about Emsisoft anti-malware?

 

LOL it was not in the list i quoted the post deleted unnecessary content and tried to give an opinion of each one and deleting the ones that i haven't tried or researched enough.
But if you want it

Emsisoft
-A bit heavy (Pre v4) We have to check out what v5 brings in reviews
-BB might be annoying at the beginning

 

Because it is A vs B vs C vs D vs E ...