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

Discussion in 'polls' started by coldplay, Nov 14, 2006.

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

  1. Antivir

    31 vote(s)
    41.9%
  2. Avast

    7 vote(s)
    9.5%
  3. Avg

    7 vote(s)
    9.5%
  4. other ( plz specific in replies )

    29 vote(s)
    39.2%
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  1. lodore

    lodore Registered Member

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

    lodore Registered Member

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    agreed!
    lodore
     
  3. WSFuser

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  4. phasechange

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    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 :D

    Phasechange :cool:
     
  5. C.S.J

    C.S.J Massive Poster

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    this forum is biased!
    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)
     
  6. Don Pelotas

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

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

    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!
     
  8. ASpace

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    No one is too strong word , don't you think ;)
     
  9. Don Pelotas

    Don Pelotas Registered Member

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    Yes, perhaps, but i feel comfortable using it. ;)
     
  10. coldplay

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    ~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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  11. SourMilk

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    KIS6 works for me.

    SourMilk out
     
  12. trjam

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

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    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?
     
  14. IBK

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    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.)
     
  15. Rasheed187

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    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. :)
     
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  16. Chuck57

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    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.
     
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