Done, finished, solved=>100% free AV=>Thanks !

[SkyrimGuy]

Bitdefender Free has off line sigs and an awesome web scanner. Bitdefender free has a great detection rate. Even though it auto quarintines, the likelyhood that it's going to quarintine a system file is minimal. Hopefully they are going to change that soon. It's also very light once it's done downloading updates and sigs and running the initial scan.

Roboscan is for some reason not nearly as good. Even though it uses bitdefender's sigs. Not really sure where the issue is but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

I do agree that Avast 8 has improved greatly and it's also super light. The dynagen and autosandbox have improved and are going to get better shortly.

[avmad]

As far as i'm concerned Avast is way ahead of anything else in the free department. I don't know why you consider unproven software. They bring nothing new to the table.

Try it and if you have problems look for something else. I've never had a problem with Avast.

Why use a cracked, modified, and possibly vulnerable software solution? There are good free alternatives, and giveaways always around for paid products.

ps get SP3 :lol:

[w9999]

it may help to chose.

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/comprehensive-list-of-free-anti-virus/

[weylin]

When my 6 month trial of NOD32 ran out I used this:

Norton Antivirus 2013 6 months free

http://www.buzz99.com/4104/free-norton-antivirus-2013-product-key-6-months/

Don't listen to the pinheads who haven't tried Norton in 10 years.

It runs lite and is powerful.

[uffbros]

You folks know that less than 1% of infections now a days is from viruses..It's malware,spyware,trojans,rootkits,worms. Antivirus programs don't detect many of these. You need a program like malwareBytes running real time and Hitman Pro for a second opiniion......Those are the facts.

[phâm]

Try Roboscan and you will not regret.... ;)

Homepage - http://www.roboscan.com/

Download

32 bit

http://advert.estsoft.com/?event=201202281134251

64 bit

http://advert.estsoft.com/?event=201202281306053

Is the engine of BITDEFENDER is only virus scanning or firewall too?

sorry about my english its rusty

hi,

It's the best Antivirus of 2012 :)

[DKT27]

You folks know that less than 1% of infections now a days is from viruses..It's malware,spyware,trojans,rootkits,worms. Antivirus programs don't detect many of these. You need a program like malwareBytes running real time and Hitman Pro for a second opiniion......Those are the facts.

Antiviruses detect everything, from spyware, trojans, rootkits, worms, etc. However, in some cases, Malwarebytes does better than others, but, it's real time module sucks big time, is problematic and ineffective - it's on demand scan is something it's best at.

[RadioActive]

I've used Kingsoft Free AV before and I definitely recommend it.

[killahertz]

Anyone shed any light on Commdo Internet Security ?

Not recommending it just would like to know peoples opinions please.

[H4rDw4rE]

Hey dude,

Not entirely sure why you want to pay them anything.

I use ESET and just installed this morning. No hassle, all I had to to was download TNod, install and exclude the files. Done

Whats wrong with using TNod again?

I find all the free AV's too loud or uncustomisable.

Maybe because it's not working as it should be?

I have Tnod over a year and in last two months it is unable to find username and password every few days...I think putting it on white list in Eset in not enough...anymore...

Maybe it's only me, but in past Tnod work nice...and stopped...(latest version, all excluded...)

Any recomendations about Tnod?

[maia]

Chiunque far luce sulla sicurezza Commdo Internet?

Non lo raccomando solo piacerebbe conoscere le opinioni dei popoli per favore.

The firewall section of Comodo Internet Security 6 is at the top. Regarding the antivirus ... is average. In any case, I know a lot of complaints from users of Comodo Internet Security 6: in fact, the version 6 is much heavier than the version 5, something that has led so many to reinstall the v5.

For example, roboscan is much lighter and have a major detection rate than Comodo 6: because used bitdefender engine.

[majithia23]

Kingsoft AV .

I m not an AV user , but i have it installed on my dad's PC and it is a very good product .

Light . Fast . Effective and some nice extras also .

Read about it @Wilders and you shiould find some good reviews .

[avmad]

You folks know that less than 1% of infections now a days is from viruses..It's malware,spyware,trojans,rootkits,worms. Antivirus programs don't detect many of these. You need a program like malwareBytes running real time and Hitman Pro for a second opiniion......Those are the facts.

What a load of rubbish. Modern anti-virus covers all of them, and if you get a half decent one you don't need Malwarebytes running in real-time.

As for Kingsoft I heard it's just about dead. Take a look at their forum to see how they keep things in order :rolleyes: http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

Kingsoft FAQ http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/faq/ Really?

[maia]

Try Roboscan and you will not regret.... ;)

Homepage - http://www.roboscan.com/

Download

32 bit

http://advert.estsoft.com/?event=201202281134251

64 bit

http://advert.estsoft.com/?event=201202281306053

Is the engine of BITDEFENDER is only virus scanning or firewall too?

sorry about my english its rusty

Only antivirus: no firewall...... ;)

[vin3e]

Hey dude,

Not entirely sure why you want to pay them anything.

I use ESET and just installed this morning. No hassle, all I had to to was download TNod, install and exclude the files. Done

Whats wrong with using TNod again?

I find all the free AV's too loud or uncustomisable.

Maybe because it's not working as it should be?

I have Tnod over a year and in last two months it is unable to find username and password every few days...I think putting it on white list in Eset in not enough...anymore...

Maybe it's only me, but in past Tnod work nice...and stopped...(latest version, all excluded...)

Any recomendations about Tnod?

Not sure then because it finds licenses for me in seconds. Literally have it on startup and everytime I log in the expiration goes up.

I have just followed the readme file and excluded *tukero.* etc and excluded the ESET folder entirely.

[dcs18]

TNoD working fine, here - no problems (just tested - I do not use it, though.)

[insanedown58]

+1 for Avast. Users find it easier to use and a lot of technicians save themselves time by just installing it and leaving it be. If your not an Avast guy though, I would recommend Bitdefender Free because of its light footprint and power. My dad has BitDefender Free and his PC seems to be nice and snappy.

[aurics]

Mbam pro ( it has keygen ), free antiviruses: Avast, Kingsoft, Comodo.

Panda cloud free has nice detection, but slows windows a lot.

[Technology]

My advise will be to you is NOT to use any AV, since AV engines have gone out of their minds in recent times blocking various websites and giving false positives for useful applications. Recently Eset have blocked many websites including with Webroot given some false positives. Other AV's are giving false positive and also are heavy in ram usage making overall computer performance slow. To be really be hones, I am big Eset, Emsisoft, Avast, Kaspersky and Bitdefender fan, but they didn't took my truth in protecting my PC even 98%. I have test various AV's in the past, but few came close in protecting the PC with high ram usage and false positive.

AV is just a security product and not a removal malware product. If you compare AV and to other malware removal like Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro, Hijack This etc. they do way better job in detecting and removal the virus from the system, but again not 100%.

Each year few AV product comes and each year the same AV get upgraded with new features making the customers buy their products again because of new features. I find this to be useless, since companies bring new features and put more focus of them and they leave behind to make their AV engine and removal tool more reliable and powerful.

Compare most AV in removing strong trojan and rootkit, it will fail since they are not design to remove rather to block. And then compare with malware removal tools it will do better job in detecting and removing virus from he computer even the old and new once.

Each year people, will ask this question billion time Which AV is best for this windows..? And everyone have their own opinion, do a search at nsane.forum you will find tons of these questions and do a search at other forums, you will find the same. And only counted people will say you are better off having NO AV since it will do more harm then safe. Just install removal tools and keep scanning twice a week with various malware tools.

[Nautilus]

My advise will be to you is NOT to use any AV, since AV engines have gone out of their minds in recent times blocking various websites and giving false positives for useful applications. Recently Eset have blocked many websites including with Webroot given some false positives. Other AV's are giving false positive and also are heavy in ram usage making overall computer performance slow. To be really be hones, I am big Eset, Emsisoft, Avast, Kaspersky and Bitdefender fan, but they didn't took my truth in protecting my PC even 98%. I have test various AV's in the past, but few came close in protecting the PC with high ram usage and false positive.

AV is just a security product and not a removal malware product. If you compare AV and to other malware removal like Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro, Hijack This etc. they do way better job in detecting and removal the virus from the system, but again not 100%.

Each year few AV product comes and each year the same AV get upgraded with new features making the customers buy their products again because of new features. I find this to be useless, since companies bring new features and put more focus of them and they leave behind to make their AV engine and removal tool more reliable and powerful.

Compare most AV in removing strong trojan and rootkit, it will fail since they are not design to remove rather to block. And then compare with malware removal tools it will do better job in detecting and removing virus from he computer even the old and new once.

Each year people, will ask this question billion time Which AV is best for this windows..? And everyone have their own opinion, do a search at nsane.forum you will find tons of these questions and do a search at other forums, you will find the same. And only counted people will say you are better off having NO AV since it will do more harm then safe. Just install removal tools and keep scanning twice a week with various malware tools.

Don't agree at all.AVs are far from perfect regarding the protection but sorry you have a very narrow minded opinion.

As a counted user you can't distinguish what's false positive and what's not?

Or you're just mad at ESET for blocking this site?

[sirri]

viruses just mess up your PC with no apparent reasons while malware can steal your data, passwords and money. IMO Hitman Pro = multiple engines (cloud) of AV.

I just run sandboxed browser or virtualization app such SD for daily use. No AV almost 5 years and never get infected. Once a month,scan with MBAM.

cheers :wub:

[Sonar]

so is everyone ditching Eset for avast now?

[SkyrimGuy]

You folks know that less than 1% of infections now a days is from viruses..It's malware,spyware,trojans,rootkits,worms. Antivirus programs don't detect many of these. You need a program like malwareBytes running real time and Hitman Pro for a second opiniion......Those are the facts.

What a load of rubbish. Modern anti-virus covers all of them, and if you get a half decent one you don't need Malwarebytes running in real-time.

As for Kingsoft I heard it's just about dead. Take a look at their forum to see how they keep things in order :rolleyes: http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

Kingsoft FAQ http://www.kingsoftsecurity.com/faq/ Really?

Kingsoft is still having its sigs update but that's about it. It's being taken over by Baidu AV. I don't think we'll be seeing Kingsoft AV 2013.

[Technology]

Don't agree at all.AVs are far from perfect regarding the protection but sorry you have a very narrow minded opinion.

As a counted user you can't distinguish what's false positive and what's not?

Or you're just mad at ESET for blocking this site?

If AV is far better, then why we have soo many AV's and so many argument about AV's engine, features, protection and removal. If AV is better, why does people get infected, hacked by various people and instead removing with installed AV engine people use malwarebytes, Hitman Pro and bootable CD/USB to rescues them from infected computer.

I am not saying AV are totally bad don't even USE them at all it is your choice of course, but since virus and malware are getting stronger AV are becoming less reliable in the eyes of people. Each year, AV's bring new features to make us protective or rather make our system low performance and make us pay more. Search on Youtube about AV reviews and test, you will get confused which is better in performance and protection and removal. No, AV is out their telling you, don't upgrade it make your system performance slow and we are not so good in removal and protective your personal data. Every AV from rubbish to top AV in the world will say on their respectable website that they have achieved awards and customers satisfactions, but when you get infected where will you go.

My sister computer was installed with Avast IS, and still got badly infection, I had to use bootable CD including with malwarbytes, Hitman Pro, Gmer etc to uninfected the computer.

To be honest, it our fault which website and what we download make our computer infected. No, AV can prevent you from viruses and malwares and rootkit 100%. I remember, when I look at the reviews in the past from various websites including with nsane.forum and youtube, I couldn't make up my mind which one is better in performance, protection, removal and detection. Take a look at nsane.down antimalware section, their are many good AV but again question raises. People, keep moving from one AV to another because of its features and detection, and don't bother with removal and performance and how good it is in protecting.

AV or no AV, I will still get infected and hacked if I am not careful, doesn't matter what I do.

[Nautilus]

Don't agree at all.AVs are far from perfect regarding the protection but sorry you have a very narrow minded opinion.

As a counted user you can't distinguish what's false positive and what's not?

Or you're just mad at ESET for blocking this site?

If AV is far better, then why we have soo many AV's and so many argument about AV's engine, features, protection and removal. If AV is better, why does people get infected, hacked by various people and instead removing with installed AV engine people use malwarebytes, Hitman Pro and bootable CD/USB to rescues them from infected computer.

I am not saying AV are totally bad don't even USE them at all it is your choice of course, but since virus and malware are getting stronger AV are becoming less reliable in the eyes of people. Each year, AV's bring new features to make us protective or rather make our system low performance and make us pay more. Search on Youtube about AV reviews and test, you will get confused which is better in performance and protection and removal. No, AV is out their telling you, don't upgrade it make your system performance slow and we are not so good in removal and protective your personal data. Every AV from rubbish to top AV in the world will say on their respectable website that they have achieved awards and customers satisfactions, but when you get infected where will you go.

My sister computer was installed with Avast IS, and still got badly infection, I had to use bootable CD including with malwarbytes, Hitman Pro, Gmer etc to uninfected the computer.

To be honest, it our fault which website and what we download make our computer infected. No, AV can prevent you from viruses and malwares and rootkit 100%. I remember, when I look at the reviews in the past from various websites including with nsane.forum and youtube, I couldn't make up my mind which one is better in performance, protection, removal and detection. Take a look at nsane.down antimalware section, their are many good AV but again question raises. People, keep moving from one AV to another because of its features and detection, and don't bother with removal and performance and how good it is in protecting.

AV or no AV, I will still get infected and hacked if I am not careful, doesn't matter what I do.

I didn't say AVs are better than some special tools and other security programs.Far from that.

People will always talk about their AVs and on the other hand AV companies will always promote their products as something special.Nothing wrong with that imo.What do you want them to say?"Look people,we are promoting our new version,it's brilliant but eventually you will probably get infected"

But it's not ok to suggest that AVs are useless.This isn't black and white situation.There is so much gray in this area.

And users are a big part of that gray area.