BleepingComputer.com: The Best Anti-virus And Anti-malware?

TerryFox, on Jul 16 2006, 07:38 AM, said:

I have no idea about the false positives you're talking about; however, the "resource hog and infinately long scaning time" I believe, refers to the old Kaspersky 5.0. From what I've heard, the new version is much more powerful, fast, and efficient. The price will be the same for a great product (but you're right NOD32 has a lower price, however just look at Norton users. They can't complain or at least from what my friend tells me, $50 is much less than $70).

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My favorites are SPYBOT S & D, ADAWARE, and BAZOOKA for best spyware stoppers
and AVAST home edition for the best Antivirus software.

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This post has been edited by Animal: 16 July 2006 - 05:39 PM

I'm not saying these are the best. They are what I use. Some are "paid" and some are "free".
1. Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2006.
2. Webroot Spysweeper
3. Spybot Search and Destroy
4. Adaware
5. A squared
6. Yahoo Anti-Spy
7. Ccleaner
I used Norton's Systemworks for 2 or 3 years and switched to PC-cillin in February '06. PC-cillin seems to do a good job. The spyware isn't that great but I use Spysweeper for my major spyware protection. The firewall has had some below average reviews but I use it with the hardware firewall in my 2Wire Modem and it passes the Stygate and Gibson tests repeatedly.

After reading a post about Yahoo Anti-Spy I have removed it.

This post has been edited by socom 004: 17 July 2006 - 08:33 PM

As far as my preferences for anti-malware goes, I like the following:

AVG AntiVirus 7.5 Free Edition
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (Contrary to a lot of Symantec product views I have, I really like this one.)
Ad-Aware

and for additional protection, I have some other tools I use, such as:

Comodo Firewall Pro 3
McAfee Site Advisor

May I ask you and advice? Since a while my AVG 7.5 doesn't install the resident shield every other PC start. Have you experienced such trouble and how did you fix it? Many thanks and greetings

rookie147, on Jun 6 2006, 02:45 PM, said:

Don't be too paranoid...

Example: I use SUPERAntispyware & MalwareBytes Anti-Malware on-demand, I scan fortnightly or monthly. I then have COMODO Firewall Pro 3 & No Anti-Virus (Because I believe there is only a limited ways infection), I don't do P2P or download any unknown/untrusted site. I also use Firefox 3. That's it for me.

However, You will still need an AV in most circumstances, especially when you do have E-mail, you do use P2P (Limewire, Utorrent, etc) and download/install/browse of risky web sites. The ultimate protection IMO is common sense and layered security:

Prevention (Eg: Comodo Firewall Pro 3 Defense+/Firewall which does not rely on signatures, uses behavior heuristics and other methods) Defense+ actually protections over 60% unknown malware! Something traditional AV's can't do)
Detection (You're Anti-Virus)
Cure (Back up detection technologies like SAS & MBAM), Maybe Recovery software, etc.

People will have different opinions, this is mine. So "relying on the best Anti-Virus & Anti-Malware product", and ONLY those things isn't good- Because you are just relying on detection, You also need prevention & cure! the 3 steps.

Prevention should be your first line of Defense! You're DETECTION Antivirus (Avast!, Avira, NOD32) & PREVENTION (Comodo Firewall Pro 3 with Defense+) Will work great together. Because your AV uses signatures & CFP 3 doesn't!

This post has been edited by 3xist: 02 August 2008 - 09:19 PM

Dear friend,

Thanks a lot. I have enjoyed your advice not to be paranoid. In some subtle way I am. But the real word is "sensitive" (I am psychiatrist since 44 years ago [not psyhcoanalist, thanks god]). Currently I have downloaded recently issued Avira that I feel as excellent. I will try the rest. Many, many thanks and friendly greetings.

This post has been edited by merellogalasso: 03 August 2008 - 09:23 AM

saint satin stain, on Jul 12 2006, 05:00 PM, said:

Dang! that's a lot. My selection has been informed by this and other forums; it is minimalist, emphasis on effectiveness and small RAMprint.

Linksys WRT54G2 V1 router

Online Armor 4.0.0.15
Prevx 3.0.5.67
Sandboxie 3.44 are the realtime security; there are also passive layers,

SpywareBlaster 4.2 and
Wormguard. 4.0

Trojan Remover 6.8.1.2591 scans at boot and is ondemand;
CureIt for second opinion, and these anti rootkit applications

GMER 1.0.15.15273
IceSword 1.22
Rootkit Unhooker 3.7.300.509
RootkitRevealer 1.7
RootRepeal 1.3.5.0
Sophos Anti-Rootkit 1.5.0
SpyDLLRemover 3.0 and

Port Explorer 2.200


My browser, email client, address book, et cetera is SeaMonkey 2.0.2.

This post has been edited by saint satin stain: 08 February 2010 - 06:49 PM

Personally, I would recommend using either Avira AntiVir Free/Personal edition or avast! for an antivirus program, just be sure that you only have 1 anti-virus program installed on your machine

For a firewall I would recommend Comodo, please note that the Comodo firewall installation also includes an Anti-virus program, if you decide to choose another anti-virus (not Comodo), then please be sure to only install the firewall, you will be prompted during installation if you want to install just the firewall, or the firewall and the anti-virus.

The on-demand anti-malware scanners I recommend are Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and SUPERAnti-Spyware.

For additional protection, SpywareBlaster is a great program to protect you from visiting malicious sites, and blocking tracking cookies. Note that SpywareBlaster isn't an actively running program. You download it, run it once, and then make sure you update it every week or 2 and you will always be protected. It works by tweaking some IE and Firefox settings to block tracking cookies and provide additional protection.