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[Guest]

I'd say we can safely assume Kaspersky is not some kind of Russian plot. Because the FSB aren't stupid enough to assume an expensive program that does a service available at equivalent quality for free is going to get anywhere...

It's not safe to assume anything. There are risks involved with any assumption. Thus, the time tested saying about ass, u, and me.

[Jnrdingo]

I have used Kaspersky (paid license), AVG (free) and Avast! (free). Kaspersky doesn't really excel. But avast was kind of bad.

never had a problem with Avast, 100% hitrate on my virtual machine that I loaded 10 uncommon viruses/malware to. Also the premier avast version is better than anything else IMO

Edited July 9, 2013 by Jnrdingo
stupid autocorrect

[Grove]

Nope, avast! is horrible.

[Galacticruler]

Avira Free AV.

I like it, only issue is popup ads.

[Guest]

Avira Free AV.

I like it, only issue is popup ads.

Holy crap! Do you mean that Avira causes pop ups or just allows them through? Pop ups are bad. Very bad. I use Adblock plus on chrome and firefox. No more pop ups. Internet destroyer,I mean explorer, stays in the dungeon.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Been using Avast for years, never had a virus with it (and I visited really bad sites, if you catch my drift). The only problem with it is that it's becoming more and more bloated with the time... That and the fact that it doesn't offers you many options when it comes to a detection (false or true). But that's pretty normal of all antivirus apps, they assume you know nothing about what's going on so a detection = deletion even if you wanted to say "no, wait".

[Phawks]

I used Norton, then BitDefender, then Norton again, and every security suite I've researched just has too much bloat. I use Microsoft Security Essentials now and recommend it to everyone whose computer I repair/upgrade. It's lightweight and highly effective. I ran a multi-avenue stress test by running various attacks through LAN, internal hard drive, and flash/CD/generic removable media at the same time. I went from simple keyloggers to rootkits and MSE only failed once on a brand-new Virtumonde rootkit that hadn't been defined yet. Malwarebytes, however, was able to detect and remove the rootkit and repair the MBR damage it caused that would have resulted in a reboot loop. I used that one specifically because it physically destroyed the first laptop I ever had.