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What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/

huck wrote:

> What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/

The best help I can offer is for you to either:
a) read previous posts as this question is asked several times a week
b) install an operating system not prone to virus attacks

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huck wrote:
> What is the best FREE Virus protection thanks for any help

<http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml>

Avira AntiVir Personal - Without question.

<http://www.free-av.com/>

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On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 03:57:28 -0700, "huck" <> wrote:

>What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/
>

Personally, I use Avast! home edition, which is free. www.avast.com

"huck" <> wrote:

>What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/

Install your protection of choice, some program will catch malware as
being downloaded (NOD32).

Goto http://vx.netlux.org/ click on collection at the top.
These are collections of malware in zip form, download them to a
directory set up for this. Download maybe 8 different files from
different categories.

)Mark if it's caught being downloaded or not.

Have another directory also set up for this test, double click on the
file to unzip the malware to be extracted to your second directory.
(It's how I do it I don't like/trust right clicking and extracting to:
with malware).
You malware protection should catch it when opened or unzipped.

)Mark if it opens or not.

If you get it unzipped, copy it to the directory you created (could
even be the directory it's in), and see if it's caught, if so mark
that - but you shouldn't be able to get that far with a good malware
program.

)Mark if it will copy (that's a failure).

Make your own decision on what works best for you. Everybody has
their favorite anti virus program and will suggest it - this method
will show you.

I use NOD32 and run about an 80% success rate. Most I couldn't
download, Others were caught opening the zip file, two I was able to
unzip to another directory. (which then deleted of course)

If all the virus def's were included the def file would be huge, the
two that made it (were unzipped) were old malware. Heuristic I figure
caught the one's I was able to unzip but were caught being copied.

So if you really want to know, run your own test.

I still run NOD32 but as always practice safe hex, not trusting NOD32
fully.

Also note that you don't test keygen's, they will always come back
positive.

Send those to http://virusscan.jotti.org/en and if the report shows a
lot of different trojans and/or virus's it's likely to be good.

(yes it's a long post, but I saved it as a macro, to start pasting to
the very common question: what is the Best FREE Anti Virus
protection)
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Steve <> wrote:

> In article <h7o968$c61$>,
> says...
>>
>> huck wrote:
>> > What is the best FREE Virus protection thanks for any help
>>
>> <http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml>
>>
>> Avira AntiVir Personal - Without question.
> I have a question, based on what data is it the best?

It's not. A look at the comparisons of free AVs will show they all
perform well, one will look "best" one month and another the next month
depending on multiple factors.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/home (you'll need a .pdf reader to see
the test results.)

Note the above link does not compare free AVs, note also that free AVs
use the same engine as the paid version but w/o additional features so
the protection will be equal.


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Steve wrote:
> In article <h7o968$c61$>, says...
>> huck wrote:
>>> What is the best FREE Virus protection thanks for any help
>> <http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml>
>>
>> Avira AntiVir Personal - Without question.
> I have a question, based on what data is it the best?
>
>> <http://www.free-av.com/>

Hello Steve:

The RAP evaluation test, from the first URL, is rather graphic I thought.

In those instances where I watched, or had small peripheral
involvement, it was comforting to see that the Avira folks had a short
pipeline when it came to accepting our malware samples for inclusion
in their databases. That reaction seems to work 24/7 as opposed to
some antimalware providers who seem to take the weekend off or only
present updates irregularly or even many days apart.

Yes - other good AV protection exists and in our experience, in the
antimalware newsgroups, they often parallel what is represented in the
first URL I sited.

I'm toying with a theory that /some/ AV products are as good as their
apparent inversely proportional advertising budgets.

Respectfully,

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wrote:
> "huck" <> wrote:
>
>> What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/
>
> Install your protection of choice, some program will catch malware as
> being downloaded (NOD32).
>
> Goto http://vx.netlux.org/ click on collection at the top.
> These are collections of malware in zip form, download them to a
> directory set up for this. Download maybe 8 different files from
> different categories.
>
> )Mark if it's caught being downloaded or not.
>
> Have another directory also set up for this test, double click on the
> file to unzip the malware to be extracted to your second directory.
> (It's how I do it I don't like/trust right clicking and extracting to:
> with malware).
> You malware protection should catch it when opened or unzipped.
>
> )Mark if it opens or not.
>
> If you get it unzipped, copy it to the directory you created (could
> even be the directory it's in), and see if it's caught, if so mark
> that - but you shouldn't be able to get that far with a good malware
> program.
>
> )Mark if it will copy (that's a failure).
>
> Make your own decision on what works best for you. Everybody has
> their favorite anti virus program and will suggest it - this method
> will show you.
>
> I use NOD32 and run about an 80% success rate. Most I couldn't
> download, Others were caught opening the zip file, two I was able to
> unzip to another directory. (which then deleted of course)
>
> If all the virus def's were included the def file would be huge, the
> two that made it (were unzipped) were old malware. Heuristic I figure
> caught the one's I was able to unzip but were caught being copied.
>
> So if you really want to know, run your own test.
>
> I still run NOD32 but as always practice safe hex, not trusting NOD32
> fully.
>
> Also note that you don't test keygen's, they will always come back
> positive.
>
> Send those to http://virusscan.jotti.org/en and if the report shows a
> lot of different trojans and/or virus's it's likely to be good.
>
> (yes it's a long post, but I saved it as a macro, to start pasting to
> the very common question: what is the Best FREE Anti Virus
> protection)

I too hold Eset's NOD32 in high regard although personally I'm long
term testing Avira's AntiVir Personal and SAV. But alas, NOD32 isn't
freeware.

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"huck" <> wrote in news:qiNnm.4992$:

> What is the best FREE Virus protection/ thanks for aney help/

What's the best car?

Seriously what's 'best' for you may be useless to me and vice versa.

The 3 that seem to mentioned the most are Avira, Avast and AVG.

I tried them all and my preference is AVG.

XS11E <> wrote:

>>> Avira AntiVir Personal - Without question.

>> I have a question, based on what data is it the best?

>http://www.av-comparatives.org/home (you'll need a .pdf reader to see
>the test results.)

Microsoft did surprisingly well.
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