Antivirus Guide & User Reviews.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

I'd suggest to go for Kaspersky

[furious_gamer]

^^ Resource hungry and updating definitions is a painful task. I used it and still using it for one of the PC (my uncle's one), because in my hometown it's a myth that paid AV will delete virus, but free AV will not delete it and gives you false alarm always.

[TheMost]

^^ Resource hungry and updating definitions is a painful task. I used it and still using it for one of the PC (my uncle's one), because in my hometown it's a myth that paid AV will delete virus, but free AV will not delete it and gives you false alarm always.

THats wierd 1 ha ha

Really weird !!

Tell ur uncle to install VIPRE !
Really powerfull AV but lot of false positives .. Even shoots Down Drivers as keyloggers ! nad trojan horse
He would be much happy if he got his drivers killed with a Paid AV

[Skud]

Now that's something. Regarding Kaspersky, I am yet to find a fault with both its Paid and free CBE version.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

I think, with AV there can be only one suggestion given, try it out and choose one with your experience.

Otherwise this battle of AV's will never end.

[monkey]

For 3 computers???

Yes, I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop.

[Tech.Masti]

For 3 computers its for 2,155/- which is quite expensive. Bitdefender is for 750/- only.

its costly man, didn't know that.....

[lovedonator]

@Keur: Please specify the Product names or even the link from where you got the info will be very helpful.

One more thing, select a antivirus is not like a Comparing Graphics Card where one has to win & other to loose.
IMO it doesn't make sense if you use a 9/10 anti virus & don't update regularly.

Regarding Mcafee Total Protection : I never had a single issue with it till date, thats the only reason i have given rating based on my experience.

McAfee is having lot of products like Internet Security, Virus Scanner etc etc.
If someone came across those products, feel free to post it here & make sure you write the proper product name.

General Tips to get the max out your Anti Virus.

What makes a Antivirus better ??
-> Daily Updates.

What makes the user data safe ??
->Dedicated scannings of the HDD, Thumb drives [Very much prone to get virus] & external HDD.

Other things to consider is defragmentation & disk cleanup. Next is registry cleanup.

Most of the times user faces a virus detection of cracks from Anti-Virus. It doesn't mean its the fault of your Antivirus.
IMO its upto you, whether you want to take risk or let it go.

Note: Talking about cracks,hacks or Piracy Stuffs in TDF is not allowed, so let it be kept low.

Dude I got a Mcafee Security Center Disk with my Dell XPS 15 laptop and 15 months subscription too.I'm very happy with the product but I'm having a problem since few days.The download of updates is taking an awful ot of time(2 hrs) and sometimes the update download percentage even backtracks.I've checked and my internet connection is running fine.I've a BSNL unlilmited plan and get average download speeds of around 60kBps. Please help!!!

[d3p]

^^ 2hrs is completely awful. AFAIK mcafee updations are completely hassle-less.

Check if any FUP are applicable on your BSNL Plan or test the bandwidth in Speedtest while updating.

[TheMost]

Lets make this simple !

What is your anitivirus software ??

If u have separate Antivirus and firewall then post them too ...
Also the Version whether is is antivirus or Internet security suite

eg ;

Norton Internet security 2011

eg ;

Avira Free + Comodo Free + Malwarebytes

[lovedonator]

^^ 2hrs is completely awful. AFAIK mcafee updations are completely hassle-less.

Check if any FUP are applicable on your BSNL Plan or test the bandwidth in Speedtest while updating.

I've checked all of that.My internet works perfectly fine.The most weird thing is that the downloading update percentage backtracks randolmly(for eg. it goes from 58% to 24%)

[gameranand]

I've checked all of that.My internet works perfectly fine.The most weird thing is that the downloading update percentage backtracks randolmly(for eg. it goes from 58% to 24%)

What the heck??? It goes from 58% to 24% what kind of progress is that. Thats freakin awful. Well I use Avira and never faced a problem like that. Few McAfee users have problems like that.

[Skud]

McAfee has many problems but never face anything like this. Is it some program update instead of signature update? Are you logged in as Administrator?

[d3p]

What is your Product name ???

P.S - Post it correctly.

[SlashDK]

AntiVirus Name: KIS 2011
Free or Paid: Paid
Price in INR [If Paid]: Rs 750 for 3 User
Protection Type:AV, Firewall, Sandboxing etc.

Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly:5
Detection Rate:5
Price:5
Overall:5

Recommend to Use: Yes or No [If No then mention the appropriate reason]. Yes
Comments: Its the best AV you can get.

AntiVirus Name: QuickHeal Total Security 2010
Free or Paid: Paid
Price in INR [If Paid]: Rs 5k for 5 user
Protection Type:AV, Firewall, System Speedup(it does the opposite)etc.

Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly:2
Detection Rate:2
Price:0
Overall:0


Recommend to Use: Yes or No [If No then mention the appropriate reason]. No, it scans the memory everytime it has to scan a file and thats very time consuming and irritating.
Comments: Slows down the system and is literally trash. Don't take it even for free.

[furious_gamer]

^^ Exactly what i said.

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Quickheal is a crap in my opinion. We've it in our office. And it doesn't detect a single virus. Whereas housecall or malwarebytes catches many.

[Skud]

I think we rather call it "Quick Heel"

[lovedonator]

McAfee has many problems but never face anything like this. Is it some program update instead of signature update? Are you logged in as Administrator?

It could be a Program update as I have installed Mcafee from the Disk I got with my laptop sothe version maybe a bit old.And yes I'm logged in as administrator

What is your Product name ???

P.S - Post it correctly.

Mcafee Security Center

[nisargshah95]

AntiVirus Name: Avast! Free Antivirus
Free or Paid: Free
Price in INR [If Paid]: N/A
Protection Type: AV, sandbox, browser add-on

Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 5
Detection Rate: 4
Price: 5
Overall:4

Recommend to Use: Yes.
Comments: Really good hassle-free antivirus software. Basic protection and less disk space usage. Does not slow down computers as Kaspersky and Norton do (at least on my PC with 1 gig RAM).

[d3p]

Mcafee Security Center

Does it got validity left out means do you have the account active ?

Check in the McAfee Login page -> Account -> Subscription status.

AFAIK, McAfee has closed serving security centre from last one year. Not sure, but looking for it. I will update, once i get some proof.

[Tech.Masti]

AntiVirus Name: Avast! Free Antivirus
Free or Paid: Free
Price in INR [If Paid]: N/A
Protection Type: AV, sandbox, browser add-on

Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 5
Detection Rate: 4
Price: 5
Overall:4

Recommend to Use: Yes.
Comments: Really good hassle-free antivirus software. Basic protection and less disk space usage. Does slow down computers as Kaspersky and Norton do (at least on my PC with 1 gig RAM).

should be does not..... Avast is one of the most lightest antivirus available....

[sygeek]

should be does not..... Avast is one of the most lightest antivirus available....

+1. And one of the best anti-virus I've ever used.

[thetechfreak]

Quickheal is a crap in my opinion. We've it in our office. And it doesn't detect a single virus

I disagree.

I have been using Quick Heal for last 2 years in my laptop. And it actually performs quite well. It detects 90% of viruses and kills them.
Maybe it isnt very effective in a PC which is already infected

Whereas housecall or malwarebytes catches many.

Housecall is a Online AV so it is bound to catch many AV. Its a great online AV tool.
Whereas, Malware-bytes has always been my favourite to clean virus infected PC's

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Yup..!! I use KIS @ Home. But on office we have Quick Heal, they installed it just after installing Win XP on this lappy. But it's totally infected, and quick heal doesn't even catch one.

Tried with malwarebytes and it caught many.

[SlashDK]

^^ I know. I installed quickheal on my laptop after reformatting but it still couldn't detect viruses. The only reason quickheal sells is because the local engineer etc. guys get commission for selling quickheal. Just look at how much they advertise - magazines, radio etc. etc. for useless software. I've used avast as well and I will take avast any day instead of quickheal even if I get it for free.

[sam]

avast/avira >>> net protector & quick heal.

[lovedonator]

Does it got validity left out means do you have the account active ?

Check in the McAfee Login page -> Account -> Subscription status.

AFAIK, McAfee has closed serving security centre from last one year. Not sure, but looking for it. I will update, once i get some proof.

Yup,it shows that my product is valid for 415 days more.I got the disk with my Dell XPS L502x which I've purchased just a month ago.

[d3p]

write a mail to McAfee support.

[thetechfreak]

The only
reason quickheal sells is because the
local engineer etc. guys get
commission for selling quickheal

You probably havent used it extensively enough that you are commenting like this.

I have noticed it is uneffective in virus infected. In clean pc with a good ammount of ram it works fine.
For virus infected pc's Malwarebytes and Housecall are things to use.