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Re: best FREE anti-virus, malware, spyware program(s)?
said by bellgamin  :I recommend Drive Sentry... » www.drivesentry.com/It is antivirus, antimalware, antispyware, behavior blocker, file protector, registry protector -- all in one. I'll be. This looks interesting! So, if it's "antivirus'ie" .. is Kaspersky (KAV) going to have a problem?
How bout conflicts with Online Armor?
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KrK
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Maximum PC is great! |
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Cheese
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said by MrTwister :said by KrK :said by tempus45 :When a person studies gets a 4(degree) or more years in school that person is called an authority of there respective fields. What does 27 years in publishing in computer does? I've met some of these college degree experts. No thanks, I'll take the guy in the trenches experience. Look, I'm not saying PC Magazine sucks or anything, but nobody is right all the time, and reviewers are humans with personal likes and dislikes of their own, too. I'll go along with that.. PCMag has long been known for being biased towards companies that advertise. I've read that mag along with a lot of the other mags that that company puts out from the beginning. (scratching head, I think Byte mag was one of the early ones). I've seen articles and reviews that went both ways, but most of the things are main stream. You can't base your decisions on a single review/source. Shop around, there are a lot of sources these days, and yes you'll have reviews that are biased, but you'll have a ton of data to use to make your decision. There is one mag out there that doesn't pull any punches. They don't care if the company of a product has a 1,2,3 or 8 page full color advertisement in their mag, they will bash it. Even if they give the product a kick ass rating, they will find something to bash it, even it it's a simple thing of being an awful color or weird/wacky shape. The mag is "Maximum PC (minimum BS) -- usually missed in the title. Maximum PC, in the latest release (just received 2 days ago) , did a review on 10 different AV packages. One of the packages I use, got a low rating, but when you look deeper into the data, you see, they bashed it for not being an entire security suite, the interface took a beating, it did not have a firewall, etc.. From that stand I can agree with the ugly interface, but from having full package, eh that's to be decided. I'd rather have a AV that works and a firewall that works, as opposed to a security suite that has all the bells and whistles, and one app works great and another is hit or miss. I don't mind taking the time to select packages that work together and offer a total security solution. But that's just me. Hell, I was using a Norton's solution for the longest time, keeping all the signatures updated as well as the programs themselves, but was shocked, that after doing weekly full system scans for a couple of years, I didn't have any hits, but the day I installed Avast on the one machine and AVG on the other, I started getting hits on files that have been on the machine for 4 years. It's really odd to say the least. But I digress.. Maximum PC = Awesome |
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MrTwister
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said by KrK :said by tempus45 :When a person studies gets a 4(degree) or more years in school that person is called an authority of there respective fields. What does 27 years in publishing in computer does? I've met some of these college degree experts. No thanks, I'll take the guy in the trenches experience. Look, I'm not saying PC Magazine sucks or anything, but nobody is right all the time, and reviewers are humans with personal likes and dislikes of their own, too. I'll go along with that.. PCMag has long been known for being biased towards companies that advertise. I've read
that mag along with a lot of the other mags that that company puts out from the beginning. (scratching head, I think Byte mag was one of the early ones).
I've seen articles and reviews that went both ways, but
most of the things are main stream.
You can't base your decisions on a single review/source.
Shop around, there are a lot of sources these days, and yes
you'll have reviews that are biased, but you'll have
a ton of data to use to make your decision.
There is one mag out there that doesn't pull any punches.
They don't care if the company of a product has a 1,2,3 or
8 page full color advertisement in their mag, they will
bash it. Even if they give the product a kick ass rating,
they will find something to bash it, even it it's a simple
thing of being an awful color or weird/wacky shape. The
mag is "Maximum PC (minimum BS) -- usually missed in the
title.
Maximum PC, in the latest release (just received 2 days ago)
, did a review on 10 different AV packages. One of the
packages I use, got a low rating, but when you look deeper
into the data, you see, they bashed it for not being an
entire security suite, the interface took a beating, it
did not have a firewall, etc.. From that stand I can agree
with the ugly interface, but from having full package, eh
that's to be decided. I'd rather have a AV that works and
a firewall that works, as opposed to a security suite that
has all the bells and whistles, and one app works great
and another is hit or miss. I don't mind taking the time
to select packages that work together and offer a total
security solution. But that's just me.
Hell, I was using a Norton's solution for the longest time,
keeping all the signatures updated as well as the programs
themselves, but was shocked, that after doing weekly
full system scans for a couple of years, I didn't have
any hits, but the day I installed Avast on the one
machine and AVG on the other, I started getting hits
on files that have been on the machine for 4 years.
It's really odd to say the least.
But I digress.. |
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Mele20
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So where did you go to? I guess you don't have time to even read the thread you started?
Ah, well...for whatever it is worth Avira is the best choice. It is free, it is very light, very fast and currently rated the number one AV by all major testing groups. You'll need to do a trial of it of course as you might not like it. You should do a trial of several AVs mentioned here and see which one works best for you. What works best for you may not be the number one AV. For years, a really crappy AV was chosen by the majority of posters here. I never understood that. So, you really have to do trials of them to see for yourself. We can only tell you what we like and point you to the testing organizations to show you which they rate as best.
»www.free-av.com/
»www.av-comparatives.org/
»www.av-test.org/
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SipSizzurp
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This is a Beastly piece of software. I had just installed and activated the 30 day trial Avira Antivir Premium and had password protected all areas. I was testing it against WinAntivirus 200X and it was doing a great job of preventing infection. I tried to manually terminate Antivir from the task manager and it denied me. Then I ran across this thread and loaded Drivesentry. About half way through the install it knocked Avira out of the system tray. The computer froze up for about 45 seconds, and then Drivesentry continued it's installation successfully. Now when I click the AntiVir PE icon on my desktop I am prompted for the password. I supply the password and the gui starts up but the program never really starts nor does Antivir make it back into the system tray. I click the X to close the AntiVir window and it closes right away with no prompting (The icon in the system tray is for DriveSentry).
When I hit print screen (Gadwin 3.1) DriveSentry pops up an informative window warning me about the print screen activity, describes the potential security risk of what a print screen operation may pose, and provides the option to continue. When I was converting the screen shot from a 2 MB GIF to a JPG, DriveSentry informed me that 602 photo was attempting to access a protected area (My Documents), and I had to approve access. I did a different photo just after that, and DriveSentry had learned that 602 photo was OK, and permitted access with no prompt. Oh, I hit print screen again and did not get a prompt the second time. Heavy duty stuff ! Now I have two new toys to play with, but I'm afraid one has already been obsoleted before I could enjoy it.
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Noah Vail
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I hadn't seen them before, I'll check them out
Thanks for the heads up.
NV
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La Luna
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said by mikedz4 :....I don't have time to search through millions of posts for what i want. can someone please help? Oh, but we have the time to do it for you? 
No, no one can tell you what to use. We kind of favor people doing some of the hoof work themselves rather than have us hold their hands. In addition, you will get a dozen different opinions in a dozen answers. What works well for one may not work well for you. Scanning over the polls will give you a good, overall feel for favorites.
Don't expect people to do your work for you, you have been pointed in the right direction.
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hayc59
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said by tempus45 :I see alot of people recommending SuperAntiSpyware, but in reality that software sucks. Here's a review. » www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2127210,00.aspIf you want competent anti-spyware, you need to cough up some cash and buy Spysweeper, Spyware Doctor, or Counterspy. you must be crazy!!! do you believe everything you read?? |
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KrK
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said by tempus45 :When a person studies gets a 4(degree) or more years in school that person is called an authority of there respective fields. What does 27 years in publishing in computer does? I've met some of these college degree experts. No thanks, I'll take the guy in the trenches experience.
Look, I'm not saying PC Magazine sucks or anything, but nobody is right all the time, and reviewers are humans with personal likes and dislikes of their own, too.
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Darek
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You forgot to add that article is outdated!!!
"SUPERAntiSpyware review DATE:05.08.07"
Did you ever use this software, or your opinion arose from what you read?
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wxboss
This is like Deja vu all over again.
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IMO, you can't go wrong with Avast! - it's a good, solid AV. In addition to that, I do use FF 3.0.5 w/ NoScript. Windows Defender rounds out the collection on my Vista Home Premium box.
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jerry666
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Tempus and PC mag know best . Can it be that software that does NOT PAY for any advertising gets bad ratings and the ones that advertise rate well , no never happen .
pc mag is a business promoting other computer businesses , how long would they last bashing advertisers ? Conflict of interest , ever hear of that ? |
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JTM1051
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* Be it good or bad I would not make judgment on any security app base on a single review. Did you bother to read through the "Reader" ratings to the PC Mag Review?
* Review was done 05/08/07; SAS has made many improvements since then.
* Like to see if you can find at least two other reviews on the current SAS 4.23 that concur with the PC Mag review.
* At Wilders Security, Castle Cops, etc. forums SUPERAntiSpyware has received very good comments by users that have used SUPERAntiSpyware to clean/remove malware from infected systems.
* Read reviews at PC Mag/Cnet I thought were off, and the Reader Rating/User Reviews concurred with my thoughts.
FWIW:
»www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr···over.htm
»www.softsea.com/review/SUPERAntiSpyware.html |
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Cheese
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said by mikedz4 :i'm using windows xp with 4gb ram and yes 32bit as of right now. I don't have time to search through millions of posts for what i want. can someone please help? You aren't going to get what YOU want because the "best" is different for different people  |
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Jeffrey
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Please take the time to educate yourself, but I would recommend Avira (free antivirus), Malewarebytes, SUPERantipsyware, and BOClean.
Of course, get a router if you don't already have one, and absolutely consider a software firewall like Comodo, especially if you're on Windows XP. |
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Jeffrey
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said by MarkAW : SuperAntiSpyware was the first program to be able to remove Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009 before the three paid programs you mention. Paid is not always the best, there are free programs out there that will do much better than paid. Very well said. I can agree to this from more than 6 or 7 personal instances with family and friend PCs. The only two apps that removed XP Antivirus 2008 and 2009 were SUPERAntispyware and Malwarebytes, both with the free versions. Long after doing these 6 or 7, I came to the Security Cleanup forum here, and had some expert help remove the traces left behind.
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Pizz
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| reply to mikedz4
I use RisingAV - After tweaking it some. But I also have used AntiVir Free - which is a great AV as well.
SuperAntiSpyware Premium - 19.99 you cannot go wrong.
Hosts File from Mvps.org
AdBlockPlus - NoScript - for my firefox.
Also when I do go on the internet and I look for questionable material, i do it on a limited user account.
good luck |
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pandora
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I don't know if it is the best, but you can currently get the McAfee VirusScan Plus Firewall and Anti-Spyware free for a year.
Go to - »us.mcafee.com/root/landingpages/···id=53348
Add it to your cart, then add promo code - VSPPROMOCF
If I understand the offer from Slickdeals, this will expire shortly. However once downloaded you can install and use whenever you want.
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hdman
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I like a simple, one stop solution. Avast Free. It is an antivirus and antispyware, plus it watches email, etc. Works well with all Windows OS's |
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