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Ok, since I'm kinda bored, and because I like making polls, what antivirus software do you use? I personally use Avast, as I like the look of it and it does its job without slowing my computer down.

drill wrote:Ok, since I'm kinda bored, and because I like making polls, what antivirus software do you use? I personally use Avast, as I like the look of it and it does its job without slowing my computer down.

None, since I now use Linux. Not saying it's invincible against malware, however. It's just an extremely harder target to attack.

But on all Windows systems, I always use Avast. Accept no substitutes.

On Windows I always use Avira, on OS X I don't use anything because it's kind of pointless.

I use avast too. Kaspersky is the only one I haven't used. All of the other ones seemed to really slow down my computers.

I use avast.

Though if it flakes out again I'm going to try Comodo (I'm using their firewall).

Why not include the master race of all anti-virus software. Malwarebytes anti-malware?

Jingo Jaden wrote:Why not include the master race of all anti-virus software. Malwarebytes anti-malware?

Malwarebytes not an antivirus software, thats why. Its more of a clean up program to catch things that your antivirus software missed. Basically, you shouldn't be using only malwarebytes to protect your computer.

Read this, it will help explain: https://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/entri ... -software-

I like avast, and use it, but this week I was having computer troubles connecting to my internet browsers (skype and the like still worked) I could do it in safe mode with networking, but I had to delete avast to get my internet to work (It was crazy, looking up help like "Clear your winsock" and refresh your DNS and all that stuff :/ ) (Which was good, because I was to the point of totally reinstalling my laptop)

Still a great anti virus, there's also the stuff by Iobit, so malware fighter by them is pretty good, but if I really want to check my com, I have avast run, and then do a check with Iobit advanced systemcare.

also, their smart defrag is a very useful tool, set it and never think of defragging again

I use Firefox for Ubuntu with NoScript so this doesn't really apply to me either. I have AVG installed in Windows 7 because it doesn't seem to be very invasive and I got it for like $15 for a year. It wouldn't really get used though since that OS is basically just for Steam games. If I were going to do anything I thought was potentially dangerous, especially in Windows, I'd probably do it in a VM since you generally can't infect your host.

drill wrote:

Jingo Jaden wrote:Why not include the master race of all anti-virus software. Malwarebytes anti-malware?

Malwarebytes not an antivirus software, thats why. Its more of a clean up program to catch things that your antivirus software missed. Basically, you shouldn't be using only malwarebytes to protect your computer.

Read this, it will help explain: https://helpdesk.malwarebytes.org/entri ... -software-

I totally forgot about that one, too. Spybot S&D used to be my second-line scanner immediately after the AV. Then when Safer-Networking hadn't updated the scanning engine in so long, MBAM quickly took over as my main secondary scanner.

Currently I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials and MalwareBytes, partly because im too lazy to get new software, and I don't download or click many suspicious looking links, but I should probably get Avast sometime soon.

Webroot was given to us with the new hard drive.

Avast and Malwarebytes anti-malware because that's how I roll!

I have mac which generally goes not get virus because there few written for it and mac operation system are hard to crack.

Roy Mustang wrote:Avast and Malwarebytes anti-malware because that's how I roll!

I call that the "Smith & Wesson" combo.

Now you just need to figure out a suitable freeware/FOSS firewall to go along with that. Up until last year I was using Sygate Personal Firewall. And when it started to grind gears with a major Avast version update, I switched it to Private Firewall. For an aging Win XP OS at the time, I thought it was a pretty good free-based security package. Not sure how it would do on a Win 7/8.x system, though.

Avast hands down. Free and seems to do as good or better than many of the pay software. Years ago I used McAfee, however it would always slow-down or freeze up my computer.