Comments on: Anti-Virus software

By: Milos

Milos — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:34:01 +0000

Gentlemen, thank you for sharing your experiences and confirming that these tools are indeed still ahead of their competitors.

The only other product I would add is Kaspersky (Luke mentioned it as well). Thus far it's been the most complete solution I came across.

By: Milos

Milos — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:34:01 +0000

Gentlemen, thank you for sharing your experiences and confirming that these tools are indeed still ahead of their competitors.

The only other product I would add is Kaspersky (Luke mentioned it as well). Thus far it's been the most complete solution I came across.

By: maciakl

maciakl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:21:40 +0000

This is a difficult question because most A/V software makers focus mainly on Windows (for obvious reasons) and few of them offer clients for other OS's. So you either go with the best Windows product you can find, or the one that's multi-platform. The two are rarely the same.

I'd second recommendation for Malwarebytes here. It is currently one of the best tools for malware removal out there. I have only seen few cases in which it failed - and those were on systems that were so badly compromised that they were beyond saving.

Spybot used to be great, but nowadays it sort of faded into obscurity. It's detection rate is far below that of Malwarebytes. I'd use superantispyware.com instead. Great detection rate, and excellent removal record. I usually use it to complement Malware bytes. Stuff that one of them misses is usually picked up by the other and vice versa.

Finally, ESET NOD 32 is indeed quite impressive. I decided to try it on a lark one day and I liked very much for one important reason: footrpint. It's very small, consumes very little resources compared to McAfee and Symantec while offering comparable features. That or Kaspersky - similar feature set and low footprint.

As for A/V suites that work on Linux? I only know two: ClamAV and BitDefender.

By: Viktor Turchyn

Viktor Turchyn — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:58:24 +0000

I am not sure what would be the best solution for you to use on OS X and Linux distributions, but on Windows platform I would recommend to use a set of AV, anti-malware and anti-spyware solutions. ESET NOD 32, Malwarebytes, and Spybot work well for me.