Which Anti-Virus do You Use?

i use mse, made by windows, its free, and i think it's Much better than avg. malwarebyte's antimalware runs well with mse, too.
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Originally Posted by Starbeetle

AVG.

But I might soon Try MSE or Malwarebytes.

What one should I choose?

No reason to choose.
I am running both. Windows Defender (formerly MSE) is native and installled and running by default with Windows 8 (which may be an issue when running a second Anti Virus program simultaneously). But my installation of MalwareBytes Pro runs fine alongside of Windows Defender, without any problems.
Regards
Randy

Originally Posted by Trouble

No reason to choose.
I am running both. Windows Defender (formerly MSE) is native and installled and running by default with Windows 8 (which may be an issue when running a second Anti Virus program simultaneously). But my installation of MalwareBytes Pro runs fine alongside of Windows Defender, without any problems.
Regards
Randy

As does, PCTools Threatfire, which is free and provides Real-Time protection.

Don

Jude,

Seems like I need to clarify something for you, immediately. There is no choice to be made between those 2 things as, they are 2 different things. One can NEVER put 2 anti-virus programs in the same machine simultaneously. I would recommend MSE over both AVG & Avast. However, Malwarebytes is not anti-virus; it is anti-malware. It is ok to have both MSE and Malwarebytes installed in the same machine. Although, MSE is both a-v & a-m, one can use more than one a-m utility (scanner), just not more than one a-v.

Ergo, a choice between the 2 does not apply. The recommendation is use MSE & not a bad practise to run Malwarebytes, as well, say, weekly.

Cheers,
Drew

Originally Posted by Drew

Jude,

Seems like I need to clarify something for you, immediately. There is no choice to be made between those 2 things as, they are 2 different things. One can NEVER put 2 anti-virus programs in the same machine simultaneously. I would recommend MSE over both AVG & Avast. However, Malwarebytes is not anti-virus; it is anti-malware. It is ok to have both MSE and Malwarebytes installed in the same machine. Although, MSE is both a-v & a-m, one can use more than one a-m utility (scanner), just not more than one a-v.

Ergo, a choice between the 2 does not apply. The recommendation is use MSE & not a bad practise to run Malwarebytes, as well, say, weekly.

Cheers,
Drew

Thank you, Drew

You're welcome, my pleasure.

Drew

Originally Posted by Drew

Jude,

Seems like I need to clarify something for you, immediately. There is no choice to be made between those 2 things as, they are 2 different things. One can NEVER put 2 anti-virus programs in the same machine simultaneously. I would recommend MSE over both AVG & Avast. However, Malwarebytes is not anti-virus; it is anti-malware. It is ok to have both MSE and Malwarebytes installed in the same machine. Although, MSE is both a-v & a-m, one can use more than one a-m utility (scanner), just not more than one a-v.

Ergo, a choice between the 2 does not apply. The recommendation is use MSE & not a bad practise to run Malwarebytes, as well, say, weekly.

Cheers,
Drew

I agree with Drew here. NEVER use more than one Anti virus at the same time! One thing I like about AVAST is its SANDBOX feature. Anything suspicious or potentially harmful is opened there and cannot infect your machine! Also the ESET online scanner is very good as a once in a month choice!

My Spybot found Babylon whereas Malwarebytes did not.

I use Comodo. Free version. I have never got a virus on this computer.

Originally Posted by mikeatlas

I use Comodo. Free version. I have never got a virus on this computer.

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