Ian
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Any suggestions.
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Steve
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avg and avast is free
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Dom
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Another vote for Avast Free.
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evilrob
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BitDefender 2015 is generally considered to be the best, plays nice with Windows 8 - low performance / memory impact.
It has been available for as little as a tenner from time to time. Cheapest I could find it at the moment is £25 (58% off):
https://store.bitdefender.com/affiliate.php?ACCOUNT=BTDLLC&AFFILIATE=30907&PATH=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.bitdefender.com%2Forder%2Fcheckout.php%3FPRODS%3D4623180%26QTY%3D1%26AFFILIATE%3D30907%26CART%3D1%26OPTIONS4623180%3Dh-3u-1y%26COUPON%3DRenewalOFF-BD2015-39-95USD
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evilrob
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Real world detection success:
AVG:
AV Test - 95% - 98% July - August 2014
AV Comparatives - 96.8% - 98.7% - 96.5% July - September 2014
Virus Bulletin - 11 / 12
Avast:
AV Test - 98% - 97% July - August 2014
AV Comparatives - 97% - 96.1% - 95.8% July - September 2014
Virus Bulletin - 9 / 11 (1 test not entered)
BitDefender:
AV Test - 100% - 100% July - August 2014
AV Comparatives - 99.8% - 99.6% - 99.2% July - September 2014
Virus Bulletin - 12 / 12
AV Test (linked to Windows 7 results as these are more recent; newest Windows 8 results are from April):
AVG:
http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-7/august-2014/avast-free-antivirus-2014-143113/
Avast:
http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-7/august-2014/avast-free-antivirus-2014-143113/
BitDefender:
http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-7/august-2014/bitdefender-internet-security-2014--2015-143187/
Virus Bulletin AVG vs BitDefender vs Avast:
https://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/compare?tab=onDemand&id=10&id2=11&id3=9&id4=&id5=&id6=
AV Comparatives:
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
[Edited on 11-11-2014 by evilrob]
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pow
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Windows Defender is built into Windows 8 - I use always use Microsoft Security Essentails for W7 and before.
[Edited on 11-11-2014 by pow]
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Jambo
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Avast seems to rape my disk usage upon start up, a quick Google sees other Win 8.1 users affected the same.
You also get pissing audible updates telling you the databases have been updated.
Windows defender ok to use then? Might sack off Avast if it is
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Kyle T
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I've been relying on Windows for a couple of years now. Still got all my money and even survived a few weeks on the fappening 
Lotus Elise 111R
Impreza WRX STi
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
You also get pissing audible updates telling you the databases have been updated.
You could just disable them in the settings
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Windows Defender is built into Windows 8 - I use always use Microsoft Security Essentails for W7 and before.
As Pow stated, Windows Defender will do the job on Windows 8.1
Just make sure if you remove a trial version of AV to enable Windows Defender again.
I find AVG Free and Avast to be full of adds that generally get annoying. On a half decent spec machine these will run ok.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
quote:
Originally posted by pow
Windows Defender is built into Windows 8 - I use always use Microsoft Security Essentails for W7 and before.
As Pow stated, Windows Defender will do the job on Windows 8.1
Windows Defender will do the job... about two-thirds of the time historically:
December 2013 (av-test.org):
March/April 2014 (av-test.org):
Bit better recently - September 2014 (AV Comparatives - dotted white line shows Windows Defender baseline):
[Edited on 11-11-2014 by evilrob]
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evilrob
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Based on the real world detection stats from the various places that do this sort of thing, I'd give Avira Free a whirl, seems to be on par with the paid equivalents:
AV-Test: 100% March/April 2014
http://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-8/april-2014/avira-internet-security-2014-141491/
AV Comparatives: 99.2% September 2014
http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php
(admittedly these results are from their paid Internet Security product, but this is merely the antivirus engine with some value-add guff like anti spam, credit card protection, system tuning etc. - they're not going to maintain two separate versions of their antivirus engine, one slightly hobbled to give away for free, that's just not how it works)
[Edited on 11-11-2014 by evilrob]
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pow
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I've run without antivirus for years and never ever had any problems tbh
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
I've run without antivirus for years and never ever had any problems tbh
If you don't have the proper tools to detect, remove and prevent the propagation of malware and viruses, you have no way of knowing what's lurking on your PC. Not all viruses/malware make themselves apparent.
Keeping your OS and software up to date with the latest security patches is a practice I'm sure you follow; but good behaviours alone are not enough to protect you. Everyone knows that visiting porn sites and downloading pirated software or torrenting media puts you at a much higher risk of infection, but even legitimate websites can be compromised, and seemingly innocent results in a search engine can lead to hostile pages hellbent on gobbling your dat0rz.
I'd imagine your computer contains other people's personal information (postal addresses, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, photos etc in phone backups or your email/calendar software) which, frankly, makes you irresponsible for connecting to the internet without decent security software. Even if you don't care about your own data being compromised, you should take some measures to protect data you possess that belongs to others, or have at least some concern about unknowingly passing on a virus to someone else.
Here's an analogy: You might like to insert your penis into a different woman every week without using a condom, and you may have been lucky enough to have seemingly never caught anything as far as you know - 'little pow' continues to function as normal and it doesn't burn when you pee; happy days! Unbeknownst to you, you've got Chlamydia - which I'm sure you don't need me to tell you most people don’t experience any symptoms so are unaware they are infected. In any case, despite carrying on in a manner that some would deem risky, one would hope that you'd still take measures to check how riddled with AIDS you are on a regular basis to avoid passing on your filthy infections to anyone else.
Yes, I did just compare using the internet without antivirus software to having unprotected sex with strangers. Or to put it another way, by running your web-enabled computer without antivirus you're essentially swinging, bareback, on the internet and every time you download a file or insert a USB stick is tantamount to dipping your hatless willy in a dirty skank.
[Edited on 12-11-2014 by evilrob]
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kz
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Just stick with Defender & MSE here  no problems. Everything else seems so bulky...
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John
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I've got no AV and don't have a virus, I don't need software to detect whether I have or not.
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pow
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:nods:
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Steve
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I've got no AV and don't have a virus, I don't need software to detect whether I have or not.
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evilrob
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I drive safely and I've never had an accident, so I don't need to wear a seatbelt.
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Ian
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quote:
Originally posted by evilrob
quote:
Originally posted by pow
I've run without antivirus for years and never ever had any problems tbh
If you don't have the proper tools to detect, remove and prevent the propagation of malware and viruses, you have no way of knowing what's lurking on your PC.
NoScript and Task Manager.
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dannymccann
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I've run with Avira for years now with very few issues
edit - although I use XP and 7, can't comment on 8
Also run Spybot and Malwarebytes every month or 2 to clean out any buildup of shit that gets through
[Edited on 12-11-2014 by dannymccann]
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