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Murph

Sep 5 2009, 03:36 PM

Which free antivirus is best?

TheSentinel

Sep 5 2009, 06:19 PM

Hi Murph

and Welcome at Gladiator Security Forum. We hope you'll enjoy our nice, little community like lot ot others before.

Murph, there is no AV program, which is known as the best. Each program has strengths and weaknesses. Did f.e. a release of an AV program a good job doesn't mean that a new one will do that too.

Which program is to advice then?
Well depends on if you want to spend money or if you prefer freeware products. At the other hand users should look for an AV program which doesn't waste CPU bandwidth, even in times running multi-processor commputers. When an AV program works fine for you, why changing?

Freeware doesn't mean this software is crap. Absolutely not! There are lot of great working AV programs, being free of charge, which can be found at GSF too.

So when you want to know about the quailities of an Antivirus program, check out at AV Comparatives for reviews.

Another website like Andreas Clementis AV-Comparatives is AV-Test of Andreas Marx. At his website you find a matrix which allows you to compare AV programs.

Maybe you'll find a product which got tested there and supported here too: Softsphere DefenseWall HIPS review (English and German and Русский)

Other places at GSF can be found at Link Collections to Malware Threats and at Antivirus LINKs.

Regards
B. Udo

Murph

Sep 5 2009, 07:37 PM

Thank you for your input.Its appreciated.

stidyup

Sep 7 2009, 08:14 PM

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3200427

August 29, 2009

QUOTE

When it comes to free antivirus software, the programs available vary just as much as paid security programs do in the quality of their protection.

Frugal computer users on the hunt for no-cost antivirus software - already faced with tons of options (AVG, Avira, Comodo and PC Tools) - will have even more to choose with Microsoft's new Security Essentials and a new offering expected from Panda.

To help you figure out which free antivirus app is right for you, we put packages from all of those companies through their paces.

Our testing partner, AV-Test.org, employed its vast 'zoo' of collected malware to test detection rates and scan speed. We then poked and prodded the apps to see which ones made stopping malware an effortless task, and which ones made it feel more like drudgery.