Free and Good VIRUS program ???

Post by **3Spot** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:20 pm

no no no and once more no
i dont know who made this ranking but
first will be dr. web and mcafee 2008 then all the rest
just maybe.. they noticed mcafee is just more expensive or smoething
but beside this if you are looking just for BEST antivirus ever is just like
i said
dr. web and mcafee 2008
and i have tested this out making some viruses trojans and i tell you
i dont know anybody who would fool those two

BUT the topic here was FREE antivirus so anyway neither of these two
will be free
i think when it comes to have any free antivirus i would recommend
free avg 7.5 + spyware blaster + .... here you can combine something more

I_AM · Post by **I_AM** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:37 pm

Oh, I'm sorry. Your own couple of homebrew viruses obviously overshadows testing against a databank of 1000's, my mistake.

Further sources include Virus Bulletin and AV-Test.
Similar information for firewall testing can be found at matousec.com.

Post by **3Spot** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:09 am

i dont know how you people took it by i didnt make those viruses or trojans from scratch just patching compressing protecting etc sorry for mistake

well ok iam not specialist at this point but certainly i spent some time whith it and i saw what i saw
and i know what i know

not so long ago sophos antivirus was so comersialized and when it comed to testing it didnt catch some viruses

what i meant was that iam using mcafee for some time and it's really working

and i intalled for some time dr. web and it is very good too in my opinion as good as mcafeeor better

that's all

Post by **InsaneFury** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:51 am

Further results of the AV-test ranking can be found here (PDF)

freakboy · Post by **freakboy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:09 pm

I_AM wrote:
freakboy wrote:I dont use antivirus or firewall at all.
I hope you at least have a router between your computer and the internet then, otherwise.. lunacy.

I have been doing this for years. No virus outbreakes...

A-mak · Post by **A-mak** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:51 am

Nod32 or Kaspersky followed by BitDefender are the best.

For free I suggest AOL Anti-virus (free version of Kaspersky but you get lots of junkmail from it)

Then probably Avast..

Then AVG. Since AVG may be better then norton but its no kaspersky.

You get what you pay for (and paying for norton you get to be the biggest idiot)

PCG342 · Post by **PCG342** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:26 pm

Free?
Avast!
Not-free-but-can-be-obtained-for-free?
NOD32

I_AM · Post by **I_AM** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:41 pm

A-mak wrote:For free I suggest AOL Anti-virus (free version of Kaspersky but you get lots of junkmail from it)

I'd forgotten about this, but unfortunately it seems they are now offering a free version of McAffee rather than Kaspersky.

I'm hoping that the free Comodo Anti-virus will become as good as the also free Comodo Firewall.