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Good AV?
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Edited by Threeplustwo on 14/01/12 03:22 (UTC)
Hello ladies and gentlemens! :)
I've got a kinda tricky question to you all. . . What kind of antivirus protection should I buy, that dosent interfere with World of warcraft (when patching). I have these choices: AVG-IS, Ad-aware PRO/total security, Malwarebytes. So what do you guys thínk i should choose to buy? Please explain why aswell! :) thank you! |
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Well I have both ad-aware and malwarebytes free versions and not running anything resident in memory with either. Just run them once a week (or whenever your spider sense is tingling).
They're not really AV programs as such either. Personally I use the free Avast antivirus (yep, I'm a cheapo) and with these 3 (and some common sense) I haven't had anything get into my system in years. |
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Edited by Danellos on 14/01/12 08:53 (UTC)
I use Microsoft Security Essentials, but Avast is also good.
If you have money, rather buy yourself a copy of Kaspersky 2012. |
I use Microsoft Security Essentials, but Avast is also good. Avast is the best free anti-virus, if you want more than anti-virus and you want it free use Comodo. If you want something that Windows Update can update then use Security Essentials. Never pay for antivirus |
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Avast is poor with rootkit detection, and rootkits are the bane of our day and age in computers, especially with WoW. MSE's detection of rootkits is generally better. Avast won't pick up Tideserv, or its family.. which is whats hitting WoW users quite hard at the moment.
I personally recommend MSE, but you have to have Malwarebytes with it as well. Those two together are a great combination, and Malwarebytes will only scan when started up and asked to. |
Avast is poor with rootkit detection, and rootkits are the bane of our day and age in computers, especially with WoW. MSE's detection of rootkits is generally better. Avast won't pick up Tideserv, or its family.. which is whats hitting WoW users quite hard at the moment. I am using avast but I mgiht switch to the microsoft one. malwarebytes is good too |
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Edited by Threeplustwo on 15/01/12 01:45 (UTC)
I use Microsoft Security Essentials, but Avast is also good. Thank you! so Kaspersky(pure/is) is a good choice? I got some money over.. I've spent some time in-game asking just about kaspersky and some people are saying it blocks wow updates etc.. But that is maybe some years ago? I don't know.. however i find the community around kaspersky quite good, and if there is no problem with this av i'll consider to buy it! :) *edit: i found this: http://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/security-software . Quite useful! kaspersky is listed there too, so there shouldn't be any real problems... Right? |
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Edited by Danellos on 15/01/12 07:24 (UTC)
Nope, you shouldn't get any problems whatsoever with Kaspersky. In fact, we sometimes use the trial version to get rid of some types viruses over on the TS forums should the usual malware-removal steps fail to work for some people.
Which is why I said, if you have money, buy Kaspersky. ;) |
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Nope, you shouldn't get any problems whatsoever with Kaspersky. In fact, we sometimes use the trial version to get rid of some types viruses over on the TS forums should the usual malware-removal steps fail to work for some people. ok, well.. i've been reading some about Kaspersky, some of its features is only for 32 bits... i use Windows 7 64 bit. o.o will that be any problem? |
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It should still work as intended on 64-bit systems.
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i dont have a AV, i use comodo firewall, it have an amazing prevention system.
had AV with it on my last windows instalation, but never cached any spy/malware with MSE since i got it, so dint install MSE when i upgraded to 64bit win. |
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You know precisely what I am going to say to you when you come to the TS forums one day, post your crash log of Error 132, and I see the memory addresses point to battle.net.dll. ;> |
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I know nod32 from ESET used to be the best back in the day.
UAV and windows built in stuff is more than enough these days if you aren't actively looking to get your pc infected. |
To be fair: An AV slows down your system. Safety measures are only applicable when the gains outweigh the cons. AV software is notorious for sometimes slowing your computer down more than a virus ever would. It's stupid not to take vaccines, because the gains are just so massive, and there's practically no bad sides to it. Seatbelts save lives, the gains are immense, and there's no real cons to wearing them. Careful habits and a good bit of computer knowledge make day-to-day usage of an AV fairly pointless. Although, if you use Windows, I would advocate at least having Security Essentials do a scan every once in a blue moon. There's little harm done in not running an AV all the time if you know what you're doing on your computer. And not running an AV all the bloody time does speed up your computer quite a lot. ~Vaeil |
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Edited by Bruceelee on 19/01/12 05:13 (UTC)
You can get Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for free.
IT works along with your AV ,it's great for detecting Malicios stuff ,spyware etc ,where normal AV can fail. Keep some AV + Malwarebytes ,scan with both. (you can get it on Cnet.com) ,the official site leads to Cnet download to. I would personally recommend it to anyone ,along with your normal AV program. |
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I use AVG, it detects when i'm playing Wow or other games and keeps quiet during those times. No scanning, no deep-packet scans of the wow-packet streams.. etc. Its a nice program. Don't have any problems with it. I can't really compare to other products.. i don't switch. (only downside: every wow update it does a false-positive on the update process, classified as process hijacking, can simply be ignored)
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