Best anti-virus for PC

loclhero said:
I'd have to go with kaspersky as well. Get the whole package. Whatever you do, stay away from Norton. I have never seen a more bloated, huge footprint, kill your pc performance piece of software.
Oh, and paid version of Malwarebytes as well.
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I agree totally about norton. I bought a cheap laptop (new) had windows 8 and a 60 day trial of norton. I was playing a game on facebook and norton popped up saying I am running low on memory... 98% memory usage. It did this several times and I was like (WHAT THE FUCK?)

The laptop was cheap but the processor was 2x the one in my old desktop and RAM was 3x the bytes. My desktop would freeze occasionally but it is old, cheap, and outdated. (Kinda like me!) This laptop should handle it with no problem at all.

I checked task manager and found out that norton was eating from 28% to 33% of my memory and cpu usage was jacked as well. The laptop didn't freeze but it lagged a bit. That fucking popup from norton saying I was running low on memory when it was hogging 1/3 was just ridiculous.
 
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I personally use Kaspersky on my main computer, I haven't really had any experience with NOD32 but I know that whenever I go to VirusTotal, NOD32 tends to give more false positives than Kaspersky. In fact I've not seen any false positives with Kaspersky. A lot of the other antivirus programs like to give false positives.
 
well, with the free stuff you can be OK. windows firewall/security essentials and maybe malwarebytes/spybot.

all this stuff puts a huge overhead on your system, if you are experienced I don't think there's a need for expensive software suites.
 
loclhero said:
I'd have to go with kaspersky as well. Get the whole package. Whatever you do, stay away from Norton. I have never seen a more bloated, huge footprint, kill your pc performance piece of software.
Oh, and paid version of Malwarebytes as well.
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I agreed kasperky is the way to go.
Switched years ago because of the bloat in norton.
 
The best Anti-Virus for Windows XP [2013]

AV-TEST conducted a new series of tests to determine the best anti-virus currently available for Windows XP which will be soon discontinued. The independent IT-Security institute tested 25 anti-virus software.

As you can see, Microsoft?s very own Security Essentials 4.3 is still considered as a baseline. Kaspersky Internet Security 2014 provides the best security to Windows XP computers, followed by F-Secure Internet Security, Bitdefender Internet Security 2014, and Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2014.
 
surely not mcafee, other than that imo nod32 is good and commodo free.
 
If you want a free solution I recommend Avast free and Malwarebytes free.

If you can afford a paid one then Kaspersky Internet Security is best imo.
 
Always Avast only... perfect for me.

I hear about most of all using kaspersky and avira...
 
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