Testing the new Sophos Home Premium beta that has Hitman Pro integrated into it. Liking it a LOT so far!
I use Avira as primary, plus Glasswire, SecureAPlus, Malwarebytes anti-exploit, McShield, Ransomefree, and AppCheck - all simultaneously. Never had a problem - no maleware gets thru. Check out the latest review from AV-Comparatives - Avira scored Highest.
This prodigal son has returned to Norton. Some weird connection issues (such as MB 3 not updating at times) only occurring on the machine with Avast installed has forced my hand. ... Monitoring.
As middle of year approaches I thought that intermediate results could be taken. So far (only?) 137 member has cast their vote. Results so far: 26 - no real-time protection (20 no AV whatsoever + 6 on-demand scanners only) 25 - Microsoft (WD + MSE) 15 - Emsisoft 11 - Eset 11 - Webroot 10 - Avast 9 - Kaspersky 7 - Panda 6 - BitDefender 4 - Avira 2 - Quihoo 2 - Symantec / Norton 2 - Other 1 - Comodo 1 - F-Secure 1 - G Data 1 - Malwarebytes 1 - McAfee 1 - Sophos 1 - Vipre Let's hope we get more votes till the end of a year
AVG and BullGuard. That includes around 7 computers and 3 android devices. Don't find anything else that fits as good for all the family.
It's interesting to see that the leading votes are for either Microsoft's built-in antivirus or none. A lot of smart people on here. With a small amount of common sense, you'll never need an antivirus on the latter Microsoft operating systems. And your computer will love you for it. But some people like to kill their computers with kindness and bog them down with all sorts of unnecessary resource hogging crap.
My tested AV's this year: - Bullguard IS ( very light) - Trend Micro IS ( market leader for years, strong and nice GUI) - Gdata AV ( heavy system impact , with tweaks light) - Avast free ( light too but terrible laggy gui. Strong protection with tweaks)
I've put mine down as "other" as am using Cylance Very light and don't have to worry about the latest signatures or zero days
After using probably every antimalware software available over the last few decades I have settled on BullGuard. it is light and informative and very effective. I don't believe you can go wrong using it.
After the demise of Outpost, I tried most Internet Security Solutions, Inc. the 'free two years' KIS they gave us, dropped KIS fairly quick, hated the interface, tried many, and settled on Bullguard Internet Security. I have 692 days left before expiry.
Same here, only with Kaspersky Security Cloud. Will probably be a permanent part of my setup unless problems arise.
I am staying with ESET, having just renewed on both machines for another year. Their test scores always seem to be near the top, the program seems light and does not noticeably slow anything down. I am able to find pretty good deals via the Newegg.com AV Specials thread here on Wilders. Been using ESET NOD32 for about six years now, having previously used avast, NAV, Webroot and possibly one or two others. For the last eight years, running Sandboxie has made AV selection something close to a moot point for me. YMMV.
MSE, MBAE and Outpost last version (lifetime licence) on Windows 7 WinDefender, NVT-ERP(v3) and MBAE on Windows 10 I voted for Microsoft (MSE+WD).
