New antivirus for windows 10?

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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so i have been moving from protector to protecor but tried bit defender free to see if buying the 3 device 3 year plan was going to be good. well safe to say if the main version is anything like the free i do not want it. it spams me non stop with pop ups on my screen or just not going away or telling me to make a account etc. non of the pop ups are telling me i have a virus or infection so i think im safe.

any suggestions ? kinda after a software that is lite on system resources but does the job excelently! i have tried hitman before and i did enjoy how well it worked but its only the 1 time use to remove malware off older machines or family pc etc

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Personally my favorite atm.
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/lp/sophos-home.aspx

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Linux
Jokes aside a nice HIPS based application is good
I'd suggest comodo internet security
https://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-internet-security.php

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i think my uni uses this anti virus on their network. interesting their copy is very agressive though my god.

also

BLOCK INAPPROPRIATE OR
UNWANTED WEBSITES

now i can just block all the porn haha XD

will finish installing nad see how this goes thanks!

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im not gonna lie at all but this sophos is saying this ! and giving me alert warnings non stop. i know its a crap anti cheat but cmon ! LMAO

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Yea it saw my punk buster as well, just add it to your exceptions.

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man if i knew how to use linux and worked out how to get arch to work best for me id use it but currently no chance

lmao i still find it funny.

hwo do i add it?

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Sophos and Eset would be my personal recommendations for AV.

Kaspersky is well-known and well-funded and generally regarded as being very good, however it can be quite aggressive.

For all the crap they take Norton actually has a good detection frequency, however some consider it heavy on your system,

My overall recommendation for AV is to buy one. Most free AV programs don't cover you nearly as well as their paid for counterparts.

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I Use Viper Anitvirus and have been for the last 4 years its done by ThreatTrack Security
it was quite a good price for several machines.
https://www.vipreantivirus.com/home-antivirus/antivirus.aspx

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yea thats why i wanted to try bitdefender as ive always wanted to try it for its multi device deal for 1 licence so that me and the wife and our phones can be covered under 1 licence.

whats a paid AV thats good value for the requirements i had?

will look into this

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I've been using Eset Nod32 Antivirus since 2008 and I've never been disappointed. It stops threats, no unnecessary pop-ups. Usually takes like 0 processing power and about 72mb of ram on my system =)

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thats a oldie haha. i havnt seen or used it since like 2008 as well.

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I use Baidu on all my pcs. low cpu usage/mem does the work also

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I haven't really had a reason to switch though, here where I live magazines and tech news still gives it a high score. My friends sends me link where there antivirus hasn't seen any harmful data, yet eset picks it up immediately, and by then I can sit and chill while my friends has to try solve yet another virus issue.

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I used to use AVG free, then Avast! free, and now I'm on Avira free. They all basically do the same thing, but I think Avira has been the least intrusive when it comes to the little pop-ups on the bottom right corner.

I pair it with a Malwarebytes scan once a week.

I've never been a fan of paid AV, especially Norton and McAfee.

I'm curious about Eset now though. I might try that out some time.

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well ive been using that sophos home for a 10 days now or so. its very good does malware as well

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Maybe a good question indeed. It is still the best right?
I indeed know Nod32 to be the best antivirusfor years now and it works silence in the background and it does what it must do.

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a honest comparison grid online would be epic for the tech world. not one from a site thats clearly been paid to say norton is best etc lol. cough cnet cough

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Norton gives me the chills.....i loved Norton manager back in the old days, but there anti virus. Just like mcaffee its preinstalled and free for a month or something and after that it can't leave you the fuck alone....Always there crying you need to subscribe.

Just thinking of those times i was behind somebody else his computer makes me cry....

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it stealth installed when i did my mb drivers off my disc even though i unselected it.. fml