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Re: virus checkers Posted by JerseySaab [Email] (#666) [Profile/Gallery] (more from JerseySaab) on Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:42:59 In Reply to: virus checkers, Snowmobile [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:04:54 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
This stuff changes a lot. Products that are good go through bad releases and then improve later; bad ones can also improve. It also depends on the mix of threats you're exposed to, none of these products are 100% effective and some will detect problems that others will not.
One example is Panda Cloud Antivirus which is an interesting product that has a free version available. It was not quite as lightweight as expected, but still not bad and with a decent detection rate. Then Panda had a bad update that trashed a lot of systems. Basically the update caused Panda to attack legitimate applications, parts of the operating system, and itself as though they were viruses. Hilarity thus ensued. (It was quickly fixed, and could have happened with any antivirus product, but once burned...)
Eset has long had the reputation of being lightweight, in part due to being coded in assembly language. I don't know if this is still the case.
Bitdefender and Kaspersky from what I've seen tend to be at or near the top of the heap. Though as I said no one product is going to be effective at neutralizing all threats.
I don't recommend any of the comprehensive internet security suites as they tend to be very invasive, and can cause performance and stability problems almost as bad as the stuff they're trying to keep out. If you are using Eset's suite rather than just antivirus that may be why it is not as lightweight as expected.
A good combination might be a solid, basic antivirus package combined with Malwarebyte's paid, active version.
I use Linux and thus don't use antivirus products myself since most of the threats against Linux and other Unix-type operating systems are aimed at servers rather than desktop users.
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