That would be a big zero, Used Avast for a couple years, then has an issue, moved to EAM, glad i did.
Thank you. I've decided to try PandaIS as well. Yeah, it doesn't let me forget that I'm using trial version.
No av here. Voodooshield all the way at the moment! Hard to find something thats better, in fact i dont find anything. its so light u dont feel it and the protection is top notch.
Windows Defender here. Light and without ads/pop-ups etc... I wouldn't trade it for any other, paid included.
I'm using the free version of Panda and once you switch off Panda News the only nagging is at the bottom of the GUI. As you can see here in the bottom left hand part of the GUI.
Thanks, that's good to know. Unfortunately there is no Panda News option in trial versions of Panda's paid products.
I've never used a free AV as I think paying for a reasonable subscription is a form of donation/contribution towards research in this field. My two Win 10 machines have paid versions of Avira although the AV has a perfunctory function in the security setup. My Vista machine is no longer supported by Avira and therefore I've decided to run it without an AV, so far so good. My wife has been using an XP machine for years only with Shadow Defender and no AV or other layers, not one single issue ever (I certainly wouldn't use it for bank transactions though)...
Interesting results so far, the leaders seem to be no AV or Defender thus eclipsing the big names so far
and why some Vendors and biased test labs desperately try to release ~ Off Topic Remarks ~ "fake news" about Win Def (Windows built-in security), but they will fail "bigly"
I'm using WD, but only because it is fully integrated with W10 etc. If I had to install an AV, I wouldn't.
Comodo: not because I think that it is the most effective, but because it is part of CIS, so I have not conflicts. Every week i do a deep scan with another, on demand AV as check.
i dont use a real time av, just comodo firewall 10 with cruelsister's settings. before i coupled it with qihoo 360ts, but they added too many ads. if one day cfw is discontinued, i think i'll use voodooshield on autopilot mode plus a light fw (tinywall or binisoft wfc), plus (not sure) a cloud-only av (tencent or mcafee)
The only free AV that I use is Sophos on my Windows 10 Insider test VM. On main Windows 10 PC I use Webroot.
Using AVG Free at the moment but I removed AVG Zen. So far okay. How's BD Free these days..? Anyone..?
You are contributing by simply using it. The reason why they offer free version is to gather malware samples, information about webpages and so on, it helps to improve its quality, thus benefits paying customers, mostly companies, home users paying for it are nothing in comparison. But a nice job anyway, I enable sending statistics in products for the same reason, like in adguard.