If you voted on what AV you use now see what protection you are really getting

[DEE747]

i posted this site B4 and found it a very interesting read on AV `s the list it complies is unique for this reason :-

h**p://www.virus.gr/portal/en/

Why is this test different from all the others (e.g. pc magazines' antivirus tests)

These tests are conducted by the only Greek virus collector, known as VirusP), webmaster of virus.gr, whose collection consists of approximately 480,000 virus samples (crc32 different files) and is one of the biggest virus collections worldwide. On the contrary, all other greek tests' database never exceeds the 6,000 virus samples, while internationally most tests' database doesn't exceed the 20,000 virus samples. So, if you take under consideration the number of both antivirus programs tested and unique virus samples used, you will understand that, statistically speaking, the results of the test would not be too different even if we used 99% of all computer viruses ever made


h**p://www.virus.gr/portal/en/content/23-april-10-may-2007

this was the last time a list was compiled i have locked in the forumns and it seems another list is currently being complied ,check back on previous lists and see which AV has performed well over a period of years , you may decide its time to CHANGE !! once you`ve had a look

 

[TheWakeUpCall]

Lucky I use kaspersky then

 

[zhinkler]

thanx for that list, I think i'll have to switch over to kaspersky too

 

[DEE747]

i did same when i read list ! seems to perform very high year after year !
takes a bit of configuring but once done u feel alot safer lol (if you really ever are!! lol)

 

[stevemac40]

Interesting to see the big guns quite low down the list. I'm on Avast which is respectable but will have to take a look at kaspersky

 

[notmeatall3]

Good Post m8.

 

[trbd]

I think a lot of people in industry know that Kaspersky has been on top for some time now, I've been recommending it for at least two years, especially with the prices you can get it for nowadays.
I certainly wouldn't trust some of the free solutions to take care of a machine where the user is doing dodgy stuff. (Not that I have antivirus, I can't justify the performance hit for what little I do on my home PC)
Funny enough that it's usually AVG brigades' machines we have in to get fixed with virus problems that it can't remove itself...

The old Active Virus Shield was basically a cut down free version of Kaspersky provided by AOL and it was fantastic. Unfortunately they have switched to McAfee last time I checked the site.

Norton has been cack for some time now, lol.

 

[charlie senator]

I used to use Kaspersky but it was sucking the life out of my machine .I use Nod 32 now and have never had any problems with it

 

[notmeatall3]

Just thought i'd be useful and post the link to the av software poll.

 

[Dalk]

i had Kaspersky which was not only making my system crawl but failed to detect viruses as well. Because of system running slow issue I decided to run AVG and to my dismay there were viruses detected.

So what do all those tests and Kaspersky being best prove !! Sweet noyhing to me.

I prefer to run a faster pc and safer with a free package ..AVG

 

[halda]

Avg still does ok on the list for a free version and on mine it did get rid of some things that norton couldnt.

 

[trbd]

Yeah its not bad for a free product Norton is a disgrace lol

 

[notmeatall3]

Norton is OK.

It's best use is when u own a QUAD core 2 cpu and need it to run like a 286. Those old games run at silly speed's unless u find a way to slow ure machine down.

IF U DO USE NORTON DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR click here for a removal tool.

 

[trbd]

I think a lot of people do go overboard on Antivirus sometimes. As long as you're not constantly browsing dodgy porn sites and downloading from limewire, installing cracks and keygens then you are relatively safe with pretty much any virus protection available.
Like I said earlier, I don't visit any dodgy websites (everything I need is on here or the newsgroups) and don't install random executables so I decided that the performance hit of an antivirus program wasn't worth it.
If some new worm breaks loose that isn't in the database, (such as when blaster first appeared) then no matter what AV you have you're likely to get infected in some way if it gets past your firewall.
To the guy who said his Kaspersky missed things his AVG found, I am finding quite hard to believe. Were you using a blacklisted key and hence not getting updates? They update the database hourly, so there isn't much that's not in there! Maybe it had already been compromised and broken by a virus incubating on your system?

I think there will always be some kind of trade-off between effectiveness and system performance impact. (Although with Norton this is due to bad programming / un-needed features IMO).
If its doing more thorough & aggressive scans on files then of course you are going to notice it more than something that is briefly scanning files in the background, but most packages can be configured to suit your taste.