What is the best overall security protection?

[Neverhavemoney]

I have Kaspersky and it seems to be ok. But it is very weird and pretty hard to use. Im not sure if i want it anymore but i need to be 100% sure of another program before i uninstall the other one. I also wanted to know if it is possible to have 2 security protection on your computer at once. I would only want this because i would never want to have my computer being used without virus protection. Thanks everyone,
Ben

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

I found Avast to be the best at finding Trojan horses and it has separate scanners for each area to limit CPU utilization.

 

[lindylou741]

i use bullgaurd version 8 im very impressed

 

[rive0108]

Eset's NOD32 is not a free program, but is inexpensive ($27 annual renewal), and protects against viruses and spy/malware. It has a very small footprint, and It has won more awards, and has a better detection/removal rate that any of the above listed programs including Symantec's Norton, and Mcafee. Microsoft is a client of theirs and use it to protect their own servers.


"VB100 AWARD


The VB100 award was first introduced in 1998. In order to display the VB100 logo, an anti-virus product must have demonstrated in our tests that:

• It detects all In the Wild viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning.
• It generates no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.

The product must fulfil these critera in its default state."

Test results
Kaspersky: 42 Success / 16 Failure / 0 No Entry
Norton: 44 Success / 6 Failure / 8 No Entry
Mcafee: 35 Success / 20 Failure / 3 No Entry
Avast: 25 Success / 22 Failure / 11 No Entry (failed sp1 Vista)
AVG: 22 Success / 22 Failure / 14 No Entry
Bullguard: 3 Success / 1 Failure / 54 No Entry (failed sp1 Vista)

Eset NOD32: 50 Success / 3 Failure / 5 No Entry
https://www.virusbtn.com/Session-fc676352874782cebf17fc269f75f3a3/vb100/archive/results?vendor=VE14

Vendor Test History
https://www.virusbtn.com/Session-fc...f75f3a3/vb100/archive/results?display=vendors

 

[comphulk]

AVG Free. I think it's great, and I've never got a single virus the entire time I used it. It works really fast and it's really good at catching viruses.

 

[locoeng]

I go to some shady placed from time to time and so *knock on wood* have kept a clean machine using...Avira free edition, SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Antimalware coupled with Windows own firewall.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello all,

This is WAY better than Windows Firewall; and FREE!

Comodo Firewall Pro

Give it a try.






Later Ted

 

[locoeng]

I used Comodo on my old XP system and the popups drove me crazy...

Still wasn't as bad a ZoneAlarm and once the "learning" phase was over the popups weren't so bad.

 

[johngalt]

Just be sure to not allow install of the Ask.com toolbar....