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Ask HN: Good anti-virus software for windows?
I'm using Bitdefender and it honestly is a resource hog. I'm wondering what anti-virus, firewall programs windows users on HN can recommend.
I don't mind paying but honestly feel like sometimes I am getting ripped off by the AV vendors.
- meat_fist 12y agohttp://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentials-download http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentia...
- davismwfl 12y agoI don't use my windows machine very often anymore, but I use Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes: https://www.malwarebytes.org https://www.malwarebytes.org which seem to compliment each other pretty decently, and neither ever seem to get in the way.
- itsuart 12y agoI'm not using any AV for like a decade. Cheap router is my firewall. Common sense is my "threat prevention".
- stealthlogic 12y agoI've been quite happy with ESET in the enterprise environment; however, I do not use AV on my personal systems.
- davidgerard 12y agoClamWin if I find myself in a position where this is my problem. The researchers at the AV companies all talk to each other. Every AV does a pretty similar detection job. So the difference are PITA factor.
- _RPM 12y agoYou don't need AV software.
- blackZero 12y agoTry Comodo Internet Security, it's free and it does not bother you or just FREE yourself from the Matrix(Windows) and switch to the real world(Linux).
- jimkri 12y agoI cannot stand most AV vendors everything about the software seems untrustworthy, AVG and AVAST. I don't trust them really, they seem bloated and phony. I use Malwarebytes, which was already suggested and I also use SuperAntiSpyware. I also try to watch what websites I am on, and what I download, basically just common sense like someone else has stated. I haven't encountered anything major that I could not remove, I did get have a insanely bad piece of adware/spyware that affected my browsers maybe a year ago that I had to do a system restore, probably was the most annoying piece of adware I have encountered.