July 12, 200916 yr I have AVG free, and I want to add stack on another anti-virus. My comp is not the best so I'm wondering which is has a smaller foot-print, and which gives better protection, Avria antvir, or Avast. Also, does either of these have a Trojan?
July 12, 200916 yr What do you mean by stacking your antivirus? Having more than one running at the same time? You should not run more than one antivirus at the same time as they will conflict with each other and let viruses pass. I would go with Avira, since it's not resource hungry and has almost as good detection as Kaspersky and NOD32. Avast is one of those I would not get. I've seen from experience that it has a [cabbage] load of false positives, so you really never know if it's an actual virus or just a false positive. As for trojans, no antivirus will have a trojan, because it is an ANTIvirus, not a virus.
July 12, 200916 yr What do you mean by stacking your antivirus? Having more than one running at the same time? You should not run more than one antivirus at the same time as they will conflict with each other and let viruses pass. I would go with Avira, since it's not resource hungry and has almost as good detection as Kaspersky and NOD32. Avast is one of those I would not get. I've seen from experience that it has a [cabbage] load of false positives, so you really never know if it's an actual virus or just a false positive. As for trojans, no antivirus will have a trojan, because it is an ANTIvirus, not a virus.I'll second Avira. Both are trojan free but Avira will give you popups if you don't disable them.
July 12, 200916 yr Author I read somewhere that running multiple anti-virus software was good, not bad. I guess that was back when they where inactive until you ran a scan. [hide=Very paranoid]And want I meant by them being a Trojan being that the company really just made the software for you to download, and think your safe, but after a certain date everyone with that software will have there personal information sent to hackers[/hide] @laura0077; What do you mean by pop-ups? Like Ad-ware?
July 12, 200916 yr No, it's just a pop-up from Avira because they want you to get the version you pay for, but the free version is a very good antivirus. If you want help on how to disable them, I'll link you to a page that says how to. Also, if you're so afraid of Viruses/trojans, I suggest getting Firefox with the WoT add-on, which will tell you how the people that went to the specific page trusts it.
July 12, 200916 yr [hide=Very paranoid]And want I meant by them being a Trojan being that the company really just made the software for you to download, and think your safe, but after a certain date everyone with that software will have there personal information sent to hackers[/hide] I would recommend avira for free av, but if you are that worried about viruses then I'd suggest getting nod32, it's paid but only $5 per month($60/year) and you'd be getting guarantied protection. edit: 1337 posts :D (sadly its my second time getting it(rollover))
July 13, 200916 yr Avira has too many positives. Anything with EOF data or a resource will be detected by avira as a generic trojan. Try creating a hello world program and including a resource, you will see what I mean. I'd recommend kaspersky. By far the best antivirus.
July 13, 200916 yr Avira has too many positives. Anything with EOF data or a resource will be detected by avira as a generic trojan. Try creating a hello world program and including a resource, you will see what I mean. I'd recommend kaspersky. By far the best antivirus. I don't know, it's not doing it to me :? But it's true, I would suggest Kaspersky without hesitation, but the problem here is that he asked between Avira and Avast.
July 13, 200916 yr Avira would be the best choice in my opinion, but be aware, just be patient with the advertisements that come with each update. But the security you receive with it far surpasses the annoyance of those ads.
July 14, 200916 yr Hi Dirkmetal.... According to me, AVG Antivirus is the best because it detects mostly all the Virus if update it regularly.AVG AntiVirus is really a nice Antivirus i using it from last 2 years, no problem of virus and it don't crate any problem with my PC run speed.... so regularly update your Antivirus whatever Antivirus you are using... r4 para la ds
July 14, 200916 yr Hi Dirkmetal.... According to me, AVG Antivirus is the best because it detects mostly all the Virus if update it regularly.AVG AntiVirus is really a nice Antivirus i using it from last 2 years, no problem of virus and it don't crate any problem with my PC run speed.... so regularly update your Antivirus whatever Antivirus you are using... He is using AVG and wants to change, which is a very good idea because since summer 2008 AVG has fallen to become one of the worst antivirus on the detection rate side.
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