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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Im using the full suite also but i dont think comodo have much confidence in their AV or they would submit it for testing.
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.
Ive always found the comodo av to be quite good actually.I just wish they would consider implementing a web scanner of some sort.
It's poor against zero days, but that's probably because it's designed to work together with SmartScreen.
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
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.
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.
IMHO Comodo deserves to be included in the poll. As for the current choices I would choose any of Avast, AVG and Avira.