Which Free AV Would You Pick Right Now?

Discussion in 'polls' started by DrBenGolfing, Jan 14, 2013.

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Which Free AV Would You Choose Right Now?

Poll closed Jan 28, 2013.
  1. Avast

    40.4%
  2. AVG

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. Avira

    9.1%
  4. Bitdefender

    23.2%
  5. Forticlient Lite

    3.0%
  6. Microsoft Security Essentials

    19.2%
  7. Panda

    5.1%
  1. SouthPark

    SouthPark Registered Member

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    If I were choosing an AV for a clean installation of Windows (no remnants of previous AV), I would choose Avast because I had mostly good experiences with it on my old, slow XP laptop. I currently use MSE because it gives me the least trouble on my current laptop, but I don't feel it is quite as good as Avast.
     
  2. KelvinW4

    KelvinW4 Registered Member

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    I "choose" Avast but using Windows Def :)
     
  3. southcat

    southcat Registered Member

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    Avast is a no doubt. :thumb:
     
  4. er34

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    What do you mean? How did you noticed it? Did it slow your machine down ?
    Was there any background - apps or anything else ? What was the machine specs ? Did you perform some full/quick scan with it to let it cache known files ?

    I ask because I have made numerous new installations of and upgrades to Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro for many people with different machines and I have never seen this behavior on computer running multi-core (2 core or more) processor. The only problem was/is with too old single core processors and with 1GB RAM which causes MSE/WD to cause performance problems - however, performing full scan and adding some more RAM makes the programs go back fine.
     
  5. roger_m

    roger_m Registered Member

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    The computer slowed down and usage showed in task manager.

    CPU Core2 Duo T7700 2.40GHZ

    I did no previous scans - I was unaware about caching.
     
  6. J_L

    J_L Registered Member

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    Avast for its features and extensibility.
     
  7. er34

    er34 Guest

    Very strange. Thanks for your answer.

    Yes, Microsoft security programs (all) use caching for faster scanning - once a file is considered safe, it is not scanned again until protection has been turned off. Behaviour analysis does takes place no matter the caching.
     
  8. Mman79

    Mman79 Registered Member

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    Avast.
     
  9. ZeroDay

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    Avira for me, But I'm currently using CIS 6 and even though you can't compare a full suite I believe Cis 6 is better than all the free AV's mentioned.
     
  10. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    Im using the full suite also but i dont think comodo have much confidence in their AV or they would submit it for testing.o_O
     
  11. Mman79

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    As far as I'm aware, Melih disagrees with the method of testing. I think that's right at least. In which case yeah, you could probably go ahead and say he's afraid that the AV will fall apart.
     
  12. berryracer

    berryracer Suspended Member

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    Here's Microsoft Security Essential's lovely protection rate for you :rolleyes:
     

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  13. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    Ive always found the comodo av to be quite good actually.I just wish they would consider implementing a web scanner of some sort.:'(
     
  14. The Red Moon

    The Red Moon Registered Member

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    Thats only one test.
    Does it perform like this on all recognised tests.:D
     
  15. PJC

    PJC Very Frequent Poster

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    No Resident AV, here.
     
  16. c2d

    c2d Registered Member

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    People have a legitimate right to choose.Deal with it.

    I would pick Avast.
     
  17. Wild Hunter

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    It's poor against zero days, but that's probably because it's designed to work together with SmartScreen.
     
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  18. bo elam

    bo elam Registered Member

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    I don't use an antivirus but if I was to, I would choose MSE. It worked well for me when I used it as it didn't break or create problems in my system like most antiviruses do sometimes or let anything in. In my opinion, most antiviruses have a terrible effect in computers and other programs while MSE doesn't.

    Bo
     
  19. Berryracer: and whose test is that from?

    If I used an AV it would be more to keep more from picking up a known file infector or such than to provide protection against zero-days. Zero-days are what EMET, Chrome's sandbox, and JS/plugin blocking are for.
     
  20. woomera

    woomera Registered Member

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    in this order:
    -bitdefender
    -kingsoft
    -avast
    -panda
     
  21. Wild Hunter

    Wild Hunter Former Poster

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    That pic was taken from the report of AV-TEST.org which has one of the best and most respected testing labs and methodologies.

    But as I tried to explain here, the built-in system-wide (on Windows 8 ) SmartScreen covers that area.
     
  22. DrBenGolfing

    DrBenGolfing Registered Member

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    Where's all the AVG users?
     
  23. chrisretusn

    chrisretusn Registered Member

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    Microsoft Security Essentials
     
  24. safeguy

    safeguy Registered Member

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    At home and not part of Wilders probably?? :p
     
  25. Solarlynx

    Solarlynx Registered Member

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    IMHO Comodo deserves to be included in the poll. As for the current choices I would choose any of Avast, AVG and Avira.
     
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