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[AV/PC] Real World Antivirus Protection Test: 20+ Antiviruses Tested

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http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/security-software/325583-real-world-antivirus-protection-test-winners-and-losers

http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/avc_prot_2014a_en.pdf
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Nine products successfully protected against 99 percent or more of the samples. Eight of them, including Bitdefender and Kaspersky, earned the top rating, Advanced+. Due to false positives, F-Secure got knocked down one rank to Advanced.
The full in-depth test results are in the PDF. Chock full of juicy details.

To be honest, I never expected Microsoft to do so poorly. At least not dead last.
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Originally Posted by lombardsoup View Post

I hope I'm not the only one that laughs when someone recommends Microsoft Security Essentials
It's just last because it's the default so every virus maker, etc, tries to go around it. But MS does update it frequently and I believe it does some special operations for verification of programs, etc in Windows 8 now. The exact info is escaping me at the moment though. But no doubt having a full security suite from another company is best.

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Its called "don't use Windows", and it works
Unplugging the power cord from your computer forever also works...
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Originally Posted by kx11 View Post

am i the only one who use no AV ?!

almost 4 years and still going
I don't use it on my Windows install either... But I also don't do anything important/sensitive on it.

Out of curiosity, where's Norton/Symantec? I thought they were a major AV player.
EDIT: It seems they chose not to participate in the test... That's not a good sign
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I've never heard of Panda before, anyone here use it?

Curious how that or Bitdefender stack up to Eset in terms of not being intrusive / resource intensive.
Always read Kaspersky was good but was a pretty big hog.
 
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Nice, Panda Cloud is in the lead
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I've never heard of Panda before, anyone here use it?

Curious how that or Bitdefender stack up to Eset in terms of not being intrusive / resource intensive.
Always read Kaspersky was good but was a pretty big hog.
From what I can tell, Kaspersky isn't a huge resource hog. Mcafee/Norton are an order of magnitude worse, and I catch MSE/Avast doing nasty background stuff far more often than Kaspersky.

I always hear good things about Panada though, they're probably worth trying.
 
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Curious how that or Bitdefender stack up to Eset in terms of not being intrusive / resource intensive.
Free Bitdefender is quite excellent. Uses only 25MB of RAM, unobtrusive (only notifies you when it finished regular auto-scans, default auto-updates are silent), no ads.

It does sometimes catch false positives, but that happens very rarely.

It replaced MSE around a year ago and I've been using it ever since.
 
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Panda is excellent. The usability of the program itself is better than Kaspersky IMO.
 
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Originally Posted by kx11 View Post

am i the only one who use no AV ?!

almost 4 years and still going
You expose your computer. Did you know that you could have a virus and never detect it by scanning? Once you play with fire.... You expose your PC. A/V has virtually no effect on PC performance anymore, at least on semi-modern machines.

Also, regarding Panda AV... I just dealt with a couple of systems that had Panda on them and yet they still were brought to their knees. I've always recommended Avast to my customers and when we do followups, there are only traces of spyware (level 1 cookie dough). Years strong for some.

Maybe its a coincidence. But 3 machines with the same program and 3 unrelated people who don't even know one another?? I don't like the software. And yes, it was up to date.
 
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Panda has 4 executables running in the background, when you launch Main window from tray, it goes up to 50mb ram usage. When you close the main window, it resets the Memoy usage ( Private Working SET ) and it's up to 20mb total in background. The regular "Working Set" looks higher of course vs Private Working Set.
 
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Originally Posted by zalbard View Post

Free Bitdefender is quite excellent. Uses only 25MB of RAM, unobtrusive (only notifies you when it finished regular auto-scans, default auto-updates are silent), no ads.

It does sometimes catch false positives, but that happens very rarely.

It replaced MSE around a year ago and I've been using it ever since.
Hmmm odd there's no manual scan on the free version, just auto on/off.
Seems pretty decent (been meaning to check it out for a while), though kinda lame you need to register even for the free one.
 
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Originally Posted by KSIMP88 View Post

You expose your computer. Did you know that you could have a virus and never detect it by scanning? Once you play with fire.... You expose your PC. A/V has virtually no effect on PC performance anymore, at least on semi-modern machines.

Also, regarding Panda AV... I just dealt with a couple of systems that had Panda on them and yet they still were brought to their knees. I've always recommended Avast to my customers and when we do followups, there are only traces of spyware (level 1 cookie dough). Years strong for some.

Maybe its a coincidence. But 3 machines with the same program and 3 unrelated people who don't even know one another?? I don't like the software. And yes, it was up to date.
AV is only a temporary protection. ANY system can be brought to its knees by incompetent clients, their AV won't stop that. They should add Cyber Security to the high school curriculum along side english and math and teach people from a young age how to safely use a computer.
 
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