I use avast on my iMac
I use avast on my iMac
at the moment i am using Norton as I got it free for 6 month with my New Gigabyte 970A-UD3P Motherboard and it seems to be working ok
but after it runs out I will go back to using AGV Free as I already have a Full subscription for Malwarebytes and RegCure Pro
Avast free for me used it for years never had a prob
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might try Avast again I also used it for years actually I ran AVG & Avast together but that all stopped with Vista
Avg + mailwarebytes hear carnt fault it.
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Avast FTW.
I've had loads of antivirus and the free one are not that great, on numerous occasions I would get the odd virus creeping in especially avg! avast is good at you can scan at start up of PC. Jasper sky was great until I got a key logger which could not be removed , that's when I used norton 360 and have done ever since with no issues to PC slowing down and catches everything. Also use malware bytes it's free and catches everything, can be used with any AV
I use Microsoft Security Essentials and that's been great for me.
A good anti-virus is the one you use, avast free should be good, but I removed it because it drove me crazy from the constant stream of pop-ups. At the moment I'm using Avira Free.
MSE/Windows Defender are the baseline, wich means it's better than nothing and all the rest is better.
In the end they are all worthless if you cross paths with a virus they can't detect. And every virus maker tries to do just that, fooling all of them.
So if you wanna be safe switch to Linux, not because it is safer, but it's not a big target OS like Windows, if you can't switch, just use your brains and verify the source before executing anything, don't run with Administrator privileges, if you don't know why you're clicking "yes".
Also use for example Chrome/Adblock Plus wich can also warn you before entering a site that contains Malware/Viruses, better to prevent than to fix it later.
Also once infected, consider yourself compromised, the only solution to be 100% sure you are clean again is by doing a clean install. Why not using a well known virus as a decoy for your brand spanking new virus that no anti-virus knows yet?? Keeping the infected busy cleaning the known virus up and being happy about it, while the unknown virus can do it's thing.
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funnily enough as I was reading this thread my Malwarebites upgraded to Premium version 2.0.1.1004
Eset nod32 best by far IMO.