What is the best antivirus?

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Kaspersky Antivirus

I've had the most success with malwarebytes. No program is perfect, though. There always seems to be something one program misses but another catches.

Be aware of people pushing their programs... half the time it's loaded with adware or more malware.

The one you pay for, the free ones are not to be trusted.

If you're not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.

The no.1 antivirus in the world is you. Learn how the internet works and how they plant things on your puter. Remember, free is never free on the internet. When they say free think about what else is going to be installed on your puter. When they say free think about your personal data being leaked by what the free AV let in. These companies offering free AV have to make money some how. They do it by selling out to the corporation who peddle spyware and adware. There is a lot of free AV and firewalls on the market that are more spyware then security product. The worse thing about free AV is that they do not have PUP (potential unwanted program) protection. Just detecting viruses is just part of what a AV should do. Detecting spyware and adware is another part of it. While they might catch some of the rogue PUP out there, they let PUP by major corporations get by. It is like they do it intentional. I have spent many hours digging out and removing PUP that the user never knew got installed and all of them ran free AV.

Comodo is a perfect example of this. The got caught selling its user out to the highets bidder.

http://dottech.org/10032/paying-a-price-to-use-fre...

AVG is another one. They have changed their privacy policy to allow them to collect and sell your info. From AVG "We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your devices Browsing and search history, including meta data; Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products; and Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and how they are used."

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2426528/anti-v...

There are so many more but if you use a free anything kiss what little privacy you have left. If you're not paying for it you're the product.

http://lifehacker.com/5697167/if-youre-not-paying-...

Malicious software (malware) such as ransomware, rogue programs Etc...

and viruses ( for which you need an anti virus system for) are two different things.

so what one do you want.

What is it you need detecting ?

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