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Posted March 12, 2011
I use Avast! and now, thanks to Tea, probably going to switch to MSE. But yes, either one should be great. AVG is horrible now (amazing how fast it declined, I've only been using it for four years and it's gone from super to sucking in that time).
Posted March 12, 2011
I use a super-ultra paranoid combo of:

sandboxie for sandboxing(best way to avoid any virus ever!!!)
MSE for general on access antivirus
Comodo for firewall and their defense+ for heuristics

then I have a ton of on-demand scanners that I could use if anything could get past this...
Posted March 12, 2011
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Foxhack: Wait for an update. Maybe they messed things up again.

Or you could get an antivirus that doesn't suck. :P
Seriously, I usually try not to bag on peoples' preferences in utilities, but AVG has kind of a rep for doing this. Avast! does not seem to have so many issues. I'd say uninstall and try Avast! for a week, I bet you can't tell the difference in protection.
Post edited March 12, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted March 12, 2011
Will Avast and MSE run smoothly together?
Posted March 12, 2011
This is a tough one.

I've got three games that make virus software flip.

One of them is from here and everyone warned that it was a false positive.

The other one triggered it because of the type of DRM it was using.

The third one is the only thing that Mal-ware Bytes ever picked up as a 'trojan downloader.' and Ascaron swears that it is a false positive but when I go to install Port Royale 2 I have what looks to be a really cheap phishing window pop up at me which seems to be bug report thing for Ascaron.
Posted March 12, 2011
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reaver894: Will Avast and MSE run smoothly together?
running any two on-access(as in always looking at files while you access them) antivirus programs at the same time is a very bad idea, you will experience a VERY slow computer, etc. etc. I highly recommend against it.

I suggest you use only MSE, I used to use Avast!, but I eventually found MSE to be slightly more reliable.
Post edited March 12, 2011 by emusan
Posted March 12, 2011
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reaver894: Will Avast and MSE run smoothly together?
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emusan: running any two on-access(as in always looking at files while you access them) antivirus programs at the same time is a very bad idea, you will experience a VERY slow computer, etc. etc. I highly recommend against it.

I suggest you use only MSE, I used to use Avast!, but I eventually found MSE to be slightly more reliable.
Either is a solid choice, both is asking for trouble (unless one is set to manual scan only).
Posted March 13, 2011
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reaver894: Will Avast and MSE run smoothly together?
Well, to some extent, until one of the two generates a nice blue screen ;-)

MSE draws less on your system's resources but its analysisprocess is slower than Avast's. Comparative tests show them to be neck to neck in their ability to detect threats.
Both have reasonable false positive generation rates, but MSE seems a bit better at that.

comparative testing : http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews

I just did a fresh install on one of my PCs, I did not reinstall Norton but a combo of Avast / Zonealarm and Malwarebytes.
Posted March 13, 2011
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Phc7006:
Why Zonealarm?
Posted March 13, 2011
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Phc7006:
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KavazovAngel: Why Zonealarm?
It's free, quite quiet ( the current version is quite an improvement in this respect ) yet provides both inbound and inbound firewall functions, together with antiphising. And it has no problem with Avast .One downside is that the browser functions are only compatible with IE & Firefox, not Chrome..
Posted March 13, 2011
i would say uninstall avg and get microsoft security essentials and keep running in real time just as a backup also download malwarebytes and scan the system once in while in case mse misses something, the avg 2011 is absolute crap it almost destroyed my windows xp last month, it picked up my sound drivers as a root kit and wiped them off, the system start to crash almost every 3 minutes, lucky i found the motherboard disk and reinstalled the drivers
Posted March 13, 2011
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carnival73: This is a tough one.

I've got three games that make virus software flip.

One of them is from here and everyone warned that it was a false positive.

The other one triggered it because of the type of DRM it was using.

The third one is the only thing that Mal-ware Bytes ever picked up as a 'trojan downloader.' and Ascaron swears that it is a false positive but when I go to install Port Royale 2 I have what looks to be a really cheap phishing window pop up at me which seems to be bug report thing for Ascaron.
If the suspicious files are less than 20 MB, you can submit them to the VirusTotal website which is a free online virus scanner comprised of several well known av engines. The results usually come in a few minutes depending on site traffic and you can see what each engine thinks and decide for yourself.
Posted March 13, 2011
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Phc7006: It's free, quite quiet ( the current version is quite an improvement in this respect ) yet provides both inbound and inbound firewall functions, together with antiphising.
ZoneAlarm has become quieter but it has also become very weak against exploits--especially in the free version. Avast! will catch most things but anything it misses will probably blow right through ZoneAlarm's defences. I wouldn't recommend ZoneAlarm in its current form.
Posted March 13, 2011
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Phc7006: It's free, quite quiet ( the current version is quite an improvement in this respect ) yet provides both inbound and inbound firewall functions, together with antiphising.
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Arkose: ZoneAlarm has become quieter but it has also become very weak against exploits--especially in the free version. Avast! will catch most things but anything it misses will probably blow right through ZoneAlarm's defences. I wouldn't recommend ZoneAlarm in its current form.
Ok, thanks for the info.

Comodo won't run smoothly with my computer. I've tried before doing a clean re-install and that led to BSDs. . I discontinued my commercial relationship with Norton.

I tried PC Tools Firewall +, but ended up with no internet connection

So remain

- Zonealarm
- Online Armor Free
- Kerio in its "past trial" reduced mode....
- Windows Firewall
Posted March 13, 2011
Hmmm MSE seems most popular. Can MS actually do decent security, I remember thier firewall attempts a couple of years back.

I shall do further research.
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