[Closed] Talk to me about anti virus programs

[url= http://windows.microsoft.com/es-ES/windows/products/security-essentials ]MSE[/url]

MSE + MBAM

MSE

I still use AVG 2012.

MSE is meant to be very good, but haven't tried it myself.

MSE's not bad then eh 😉

Whats MBAM?

[url= http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&tag=button ]MBAM[/url], probably best you Google it yourself so you don't get the Spanish version.

there goes my multi lingual aspirations for the evening lol

I've downloaded both so will go and have a play 🙂

who's your internet provider?

Some may do free AV. I know BT does, coz I got it.

mse again. low overhead. seems to do what it's supposed to.

[work mode]Norton 360 is currently only £22 at PC World for a years subscription![/work mode]

MSE + MBAM probably does the same job, or better, and is less resource hungry, and it's free! Don't tell my boss though... 😉

That said I'm a Mac guy through and through!

MSE works here, faster than AVG did and not had any issues, although in a good few years of surfing I have only ever had a couple of issues with virus / malware, and both after visitors to home used PC.
I think surfing habits have more to do with it....

Avast!

Free + lower impact and better virus detecting than MSE.

[s][work mode][/s][cripple pc mode]Norton 360 is currently only £22 at PC World for a years subscription![/cripple pc mode][s][/work mode][/s]

FTFY.........

Would prefer to rebuild my pc after every virus rather tha use norton, it caused me no end of problems at work. Nod32 is pretty good.

F-Secure - way cheaper and invisible.
5+yrs and not a single virus.

F-Secure

way cheaper than free?

(ditched AVG for MSE a year or so ago, combined that would be 12+ years and not a single virus, and not a single penny paid out for them either)

MSE has worked well for me too.

Ages since I used Norton... when I did have it, I thought it had let a virus through as the PC was chronically slow and unresponsive. Turned out, it was just Norton.

MSE is the correct answer. Just make sure you completely remove AVG first.

Do folk rate MSE over Avast! then?

Not tried MSE, but Avast tends to score a lot higher on the http://www.av-comparatives.org/ tests of performance and detection.

Anyone tried both themselves?

MSE and Malware Bytes both free.

Unless Avast has changed, which is possible in the last couple of years, it used to make my computer run sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooooooooooooooowly that it was more trouble than it was worth. Things may have changed, of course.

Things may have changed

I can't do a great deal whilst it's downloading updates, which it seems to do with irritant regularity, winds me right up. But I can't fault it's protection - not had one single problem since using it.

MSE here. It's very good. I also use Sophos too and MWB on a weekly basis.

GrahamS - Member
Do folk rate MSE over Avast! then?

Not tried MSE, but Avast tends to score a lot higher on the http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Aye, right!

MSE

built by same people who built the bloody dodgy operating system in the first place?

my confidence is not inspired

Avast used it for the last 7 or 8 years and it's never slowed my PCs down.

I was running Avast on my old computer. When I swapped the files to my new computer running MSE, it found 3 viruses/malware which Avast hadn't spotted.

Liking MSE a lot.

Unless Avast has changed, which is possible in the last couple of years, it used to make my computer run sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sloooooooooooooooooooooooooowly

Never noticed any slowdown from it here (2GB 32bit netbook and 8GB 64bit desktop, both fairly old).
YMMV I guess, but it according to AV Comparatives it slows their PCs down a lot less than some, including MSE.

I can't do a great deal whilst it's downloading updates, which it seems to do with irritant regularity, winds me right up.

Regular updates is a [i]good thing[/i] in an anti-virus IME.
Doesn't it just do it in the background then say "Virus database has been updated"?

I was running Avast on my old computer. When I swapped the files to my new computer running MSE, it found 3 viruses/malware which Avast hadn't spotted.

[i]May[/i] not mean much (depending on what it actually found). Avast is anti-virus not anti-malware, and most anti-malwares report non-issues like "tracking cookies"

Doesn't it just do it in the background then say "Virus database has been updated"?

Yes it does but every grinds to a halt whilst it's doing it. And it's randomly throughout the day, wouldn't be too bad if it was just once a day at a specified time - I could at least accommodate for it.

MSE

[s]built[/s] [b]bought[/b] by same people who built the bloody dodgy operating system in the first place?

my confidence is not inspired

FTFY.

As I understand it, a big chunk of MSE is the old (well regarded) Giant Antispyware and, er, something else I can't remember.

In what way is the OS dodgy?

I was running Avast on my old computer. When I swapped the files to my new computer running MSE, it found 3 viruses/malware which Avast hadn't spotted.

Doesn't necessarily imply that the latter is better, just different. You potentially could've removed MSE and installed Avast! and had a similar experience. You're comparing the effectiveness of one AV to the effectiveness of two.

Yes it does but every grinds to a halt whilst it's doing it. And it's randomly throughout the day, wouldn't be too bad if it was just once a day at a specified time - I could at least accommodate for it.

Hmm.. that's odd. It has no discernible effect on mine while updating. 😕

You can change how often it tries to update and whether to auto-update or just prompt you in the Settings. That might help.

Kasperski

I'd also recommend Spybot S&D for the immunization feature which will update your hosts file and block blacklisted malicious websites.

I stopped using AVG when the poxy safe search rubbish started hijacking google and offering half a page of sponsered links, a pig to get rid of as well.

You can change how often it tries to update and whether to auto-update or just prompt you in the Settings. That might help.

Thanks, I've asked for a prompt - couldn't hack it any longer.