Better Antivirus?

[beep beep diglett]

huh, have you tried the rigmarole of troubleshooting yet? updates, drivers, running as admin etc etc

[BS1]

Eset Smart Security 4 here.  8)

[Luinbariel]

huh, have you tried the rigmarole of troubleshooting yet? updates, drivers, running as admin etc etc

So far as I remember, yes.

[CaffeinePowered]

It couldn't have happened to a better country

[Chief]

I have noticed that Security Essentials absolutely FUCKS my computer during games.


When I play TF2 and this is running at the same time, it will max my CPU and my game is complete shit. If I turn it off it's fine.


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sometimes some antiviruses does a quick small scan on things that are active on your computer, i remember i had to stop AVG from actively searching my TF2 folder since it just slowed everything down

try adding your TF2 folder to your exceptions of your antivirus for that feature, i forget whats its called at the moment

[MasterGH]

[quote author=Luinbariel link=topic=4995.msg174871#msg174871 date=1285182062]
I have noticed that Security Essentials absolutely FUCKS my computer during games.


When I play TF2 and this is running at the same time, it will max my CPU and my game is complete shit. If I turn it off it's fine.


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sometimes some antiviruses does a quick small scan on things that are active on your computer, i remember i had to stop AVG from actively searching my TF2 folder since it just slowed everything down

try adding your TF2 folder to your exceptions of your antivirus for that feature, i forget whats its called at the moment
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Picture guide I found:

[Luinbariel]

I have already done this in the past; it does not help.

[at0m]

I do a lot of software development on my PC, mostly for work. I've found that Symantec gives me the best protection, but lately it's been giving me a lot of issues when I'm compiling by locking files that it wants to scan and slowing down my compile sequence. Any suggestions on what AV I should use instead? Perhaps from another software developer?

[Chief]

I do a lot of software development on my PC, mostly for work. I've found that Symantec gives me the best protection

NOPE.AVI

anyways, there's still too many anti-viruses to choose a good one, mostly i pick between Avast, AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials, but otherwise i have no idea what you're mostly talking about

[EarthlingJohn]

Best paid:
That one with the robot on it (supposedly a gamers antivirus)
Norton (I get free with comcast, doesnt hog cpu at all)
Kaspersky (heard it runs very well)

Best free:
Microsoft Security Essentials

YARRRRRRR
IT BE AVAST ALL UP IN DIS BITCH

[at0m]

according to whom?

[EarthlingJohn]

according to whom?

Norton gets high merits from pcworld mag (go ahead laugh), and i have no problem with it.

Reviews of that one with the robot on it say its pretty amazing, heard it blocks that "black internet" virus where others cant.

Kaspersky:
Jackie Chan - Kaspersky 2010 Antivirus Commercial

avast and microsoft things are self explanatory

[at0m]

OK so those are rated according to you, a tween, based solely on advertising. Check.

[Geoff]

OK so those are rated according to you, a tween, based solely on advertising. Check.

BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!

[HeK]

[quote author=at0m link=topic=4995.msg175165#msg175165 date=1285336222]
I do a lot of software development on my PC, mostly for work. I've found that Symantec gives me the best protection

NOPE.AVI

anyways, there's still too many anti-viruses to choose a good one, mostly i pick between Avast, AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials, but otherwise i have no idea what you're mostly talking about
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G-Data is still rated as the highest detecting.

[WaR1761]

I am running AVAST and have no complaints. Does its thing havn't had a virus or malware, but I think most viruses can be avoided with good web practices.... and letting your friends download torrents first.... lulz

[HeK]

Having just participated in a computer espionage and defense exercise, I can now honestly say that MSE does dick all in the real world.

Fucking red team, messing up my shit.

[at0m]

I never expected it to  be anything other than a placebo, honestly

[Vongore]

i have avira and i hate how when it detects something, it doesn't say if the block was succesful or is just warning you.

I loved Kaspersky .i really felt secure with it, with warnings everytime (even if they were dumb, like blocking key configuration for games), but it did showed up a lot more trojans than Avira is doing now :/

[Kirby]

I had Avira tell me a program I wrote was a trojan.

It resizes Minecraft to 720p / 1080p / default sizes  :-\