What antivirus you use and why?

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Im using avast + spywer terminator + imunute 3.0.
Im very paranoid about my safety and privacy.
Im only going on internet with linux, and on windows i playing games.

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k3lt

NOD32, firewall is pointless. Anti-Spyware is pointless too as most antiviruses take's care of that.

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CosmicDrink

firewall pointless ? :D

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k3lt

Well, what would you need firewall for? Is someone DDOS'ing you?

1 decade ago

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Azzaboi

trololololol? You can't be serious... an antivirus is more pointless than a good firewall. Most trojans these days hide in steath from the users, bypass all virus definitions by simply paddling themselves, and just ping out to others as a snoop or zombie. I tracked one back for fun and I've seen server dumps of 10,000+ passwords and users name, credit card, porn site logins, etc, from these - most of which still work (these user might of had a virus scanner but used crappy microsoft firewall or none, others ignore the warnings and allow the communication anyways).

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cryonseris

Idiot...

1 decade ago

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memphiz88

windows defender

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CosmicDrink

Brain, sometimes(1time in 1 month) scan with "Vulcan Scanner" :)

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Athard

Avast, because i'm too lazy to use any other.

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GrimAquatic

Kaspersky Internet Security 2013. No real reason, I just use it.

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NINJAHOBNOB

Common sense 360 ultimate 12.0 extreme professional edition for Windows 95.

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GrimAquatic

But this thing is very vulnerable to wrackspurts.

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Orestisf

avast free

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DancerInTheDark

Norton Internet Security ftw. imo ofc.

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Raik

Microsoft Security Essential, because it's sweet and simple.

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3P1C

And I use some other tools like registry cleaners, spybot s&d, combofix, malwarebytes antimalware... and I scan every untrusted file with VirusTotal :3

1 decade ago

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onelamefrog

Jumping aboard this genuine-copy-of-windows train. :D

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kangarooster

MSE. Started using it after only that one got rid of some shit I had. Some of the other AV's didn't even detect it, and the others couldn't remove it. Kept using it cause it's not intrusive, and it's convenient.

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3P1C

Yeah. Most antivirus programs keep annoying you with popups and false alarms, innacurate behavioral scans, etc :3

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Tomi32363

bitdefender because it was 13 cents on sale, on my windows desktop, now im on my macbook so none :)

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Zexion1911

None, because Linux :D

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cryonseris

Linux isn't 100% virus repellent, but hey, it's your call.

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Alteria

McAfee for now. Gonna switch to Avast after my subscription ends~

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dondiablo29

Kaspersky, just because idk, it's good I guess :P

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Nyalotha

Kaspersky! i have been using it since v5 and i love it!

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kzwen

NIS on my desktop solely cos there's was a free trial so I continued using it. MSE on my netbook cos it's the best actually.

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Mallorn

NOD32. It was voted best anti-virus software a year ago by a Dutch trusted consumers organisation. I bought a 2-year subscription. Another mayor advantage is that's very light on your system. Before I had Kaspersky which was fine as well, but it used more resources from my pc.
That in combination with the Windows firewall, and me not being stupid to click anything that blinks, is working great.

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Dawe

Eset Smart Security

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charisma

None because I know how to use the internet.

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psydex

+1

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GrimAquatic

I pity you.

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2kwik4u

I agree. Just use adblock / noscript and dont go on sites sites you do not trust. Antiviruses only recognize 30-40% of viruses / spyware so if you need to use them, you're doing it wrong and should probably format.

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atb85

Avira. It's free, quite light, constantly updated and actually blocks some stuff from time to time.

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intoxeus

Avast Free. It doesn't use much resources and runs nicely in the background, doesn't pop up with crap while in full screen applications and has various shields to protect from all kinds of threats.

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