scaper said: Where have all of the Eset NOD32 deals gone? You took the words out of my mouth scaper. Not interested in any of these products. I want ESET. Oh well. That's why we have deal alerts heh heh.
TYBUDGET, I hear ya Bro. Eset needs to give up the goods. I have two licenses that need renewal before December and there is squat on the horizon. Kaspersky was 95% as good as Nod32 and with the recent Fry's deal (3-user free after rebate), I may have to reluctantly go back to Kaspersky. Eset, your lack of marketing savvy is gonna cost you customers.
cheapbone
Member
posted: Nov. 28, 2009 @ 9:11a
People actually buy antivirus for home use still? Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. AVG is free as well for personal use and came in third place.
It's just shocking people will spend money on antivirus software and then it perform worse than what's free and then each year you pay for the updates. There's nothing like paying money for something that's worse than what's free. Or it's the old mentality that if it's free it's not as good LOL
cheapbone said: People actually buy antivirus for home use still? Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. AVG is free as well for personal use and came in third place.
It's just shocking people will spend money on antivirus software and then it perform worse than what's free and then each year you pay for the updates. There's nothing like paying money for something that's worse than what's free. Or it's the old mentality that if it's free it's not as good LOL
Like you (like all of us), I did not want to pay for an antivirus. I had AVG on the computer that the kids use and Comodo on the old box that I have as a server. On the server, Comodo was constantly giving me false-positives. And AVG failed to protect the kids computer (I had to format their hadr-drive and completely reload). I since installed NOD32 on the kids computer and have had zero problems since (and I am quite sure that our teenagers are still visiting sites and downloading files that are so virus-laden that it makes the Black Plague look like a mild case of the "sniffles". The hours I wasted re-building the kids computer "sold" me on ESET (or Kaspersky).
I genuinely appreciate your comments and will be trying Avira as a replacement to Comodo on our server.
microsoft security is in the top 3 AV comparatives; it really is that good; free for commercial or personal use. fundementally the same as forefront client or the old live onecare. sadly the fact that microsoft makes it is embarassing for folks to use.
cheapbone said: Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. I spent a portion of my Thanksgiving rebuilding one of my Avira-"protected" computers because the worthless piece of shit couldn't figure out how to permanently remove at least 5 viruses and I had to restore from a backup. I had to laugh when you said it uses the least amount of resources. It ought to since it isn't doing a goddamn thing.
scaper, there is exactly one free program out there that you should have and it's SPYBOT. I'm mentioning it because if you decide to install Avira, have the BOT fully installed and updated first.
TYTBUDGET said: cheapbone said: Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. I spent a portion of my Thanksgiving rebuilding one of my Avira-"protected" computers because the worthless piece of shit couldn't figure out how to permanently remove at least 5 viruses and I had to restore from a backup. I had to laugh when you said it uses the least amount of resources. It ought to since it isn't doing a goddamn thing.
TYTBUDGET No one is interested in your biased view of what constitutes good AV software. Re-read Cheapbone's post again (because it's spot on), and then look here for some real world tests and see where your beloved NOD32 actually ranks:
Avira also has a free edition without a firewall. An annoying pop up everyday through...
LiverX
Member
posted: Dec. 2, 2009 @ 12:08a
BetterDays said: TYTBUDGET said: cheapbone said: Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. I spent a portion of my Thanksgiving rebuilding one of my Avira-"protected" computers because the worthless piece of shit couldn't figure out how to permanently remove at least 5 viruses and I had to restore from a backup. I had to laugh when you said it uses the least amount of resources. It ought to since it isn't doing a goddamn thing.
TYTBUDGET No one is interested in your biased view of what constitutes good AV software. Re-read Cheapbone's post again (because it's spot on), and then look here for some real world tests and see where your beloved NOD32 actually ranks:
There is not one AV program that is best in all classes. Unfortunately, NOD32 is best in none. Congrats on your infatuation with average software.
But where is SuperAntiSpyware or MBAM?
BocaDogJr
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 2, 2009 @ 12:49a
cheapbone said: People actually buy antivirus for home use still? Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. AVG is free as well for personal use and came in third place.
It's just shocking people will spend money on antivirus software and then it perform worse than what's free and then each year you pay for the updates. There's nothing like paying money for something that's worse than what's free. Or it's the old mentality that if it's free it's not as good LOL
I use free Avira on one machine and I have free AVG on another. I don't think free Avira scans email, but otherwise it is great.
Occasionally I see a deal for Eset NOD, but it usually is not as cheap as the competitors.
I could never make much sense of antivirus rankings. Everyone I read has a different ranking. I just decided to go with Consumer Reports which had Eset ranked highest among the paid solutions and Avira ranked highest among the free.
BocaDogJr
Senior Member
posted: Dec. 2, 2009 @ 1:10a
BetterDays said: TYTBUDGET said: cheapbone said: Avira won last year for the product with the least amount of resources used and the highest detection rate compared to any other antivirus software out there and it's free. I spent a portion of my Thanksgiving rebuilding one of my Avira-"protected" computers because the worthless piece of shit couldn't figure out how to permanently remove at least 5 viruses and I had to restore from a backup. I had to laugh when you said it uses the least amount of resources. It ought to since it isn't doing a goddamn thing.
TYTBUDGET No one is interested in your biased view of what constitutes good AV software. Re-read Cheapbone's post again (because it's spot on), and then look here for some real world tests and see where your beloved NOD32 actually ranks:
There is not one AV program that is best in all classes. Unfortunately, NOD32 is best in none. Congrats on your infatuation with average software.
Well, it might be "average" among a set of very good software products. The selection methodology according to av-comparatives is that "AV-Comparatives limits the participation to its main tests to about 16 products and prefers to include only good, reliable and worldwide known/used products."
In other words, it's a subset of selected products that meet certain minimum levels of quality. I know of businesses and big government agencies that use McAfee, despite the fact it's not the highest rated. These agencies and businesses probably put a lot of thought into getting the best product for their purposes.
Im not hearing anyone talk about Microsoft Security Essential. Is this free antivirus from Microsoft even worth downloading? It seems that every microsoft product that is out there, theres some hacker that already hacked it. So I'm just wondering how safe is a free antivirus software really.
Im not hearing anyone talk about Microsoft Security Essential. Is this free antivirus from Microsoft even worth downloading? It seems that every microsoft product that is out there, theres some hacker that already hacked it. So I'm just wondering how safe is a free antivirus software really.
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