Top 10 Antivirus Software
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sunbiz_3000
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Kaspersky 6 at my home is taking 12Mb+3Mb (VM Size: 18+4)...2 different processes coz I use KIS (kaspersky Intenet Security).... its firewall is amazing.
Actually using KIS (my main PC) I found that my dad's networked comp which used McAfee has a virus. It kept calling on a port which was odd... I did a scan from my PCs KIS onto my dad's PC and cleaned the infection... kaspersky's network scan was amazing and unbelievable. Also like Quad said, its got a very good interface... I remember how much I hated the Kaspersky 5 interface!!!
Actually using KIS (my main PC) I found that my dad's networked comp which used McAfee has a virus. It kept calling on a port which was odd... I did a scan from my PCs KIS onto my dad's PC and cleaned the infection... kaspersky's network scan was amazing and unbelievable. Also like Quad said, its got a very good interface... I remember how much I hated the Kaspersky 5 interface!!!
Quad Master
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Heres my KAV System performance graph its seen that the background scanner
isnt consuming the cpu cycles at all so its light on the system while normal
background scanning.
This graph is produced using a software called sysinternals process explorer.
isnt consuming the cpu cycles at all so its light on the system while normal
background scanning.
This graph is produced using a software called sysinternals process explorer.
Quad Master
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samrulez said:^^
But then that means that NOD32 takes more mem.. :ashamed:
But is it more heavy on resources than NOD32??? Coz the mem utilizations seems to be low..
@Qual Master is the second pic of the background process?? :O That's 23MB :O...
When KAV is running normally in the background it has 2 exe files running.
And regarding the memory utilization i have 1 GB of ram so that 23 + 6 MB is fine for me.
I am using KAV since yesterday and never did i feel that my system has become slower.
My top 5 are, in the order, are: -
1. Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic [Free], or Premium - little over 5MB of memory consumption
2. NOD32
3. BitDefender
4. Kaspersky
5. Symantec
Symantec's heuristics and signatures are top-notch. It's only their interface and bloat that s*cks. AntiVir has better heuristics than NOD32 or Kaspersky 6, and the free Classic edition is way better than most commercial options in terms of detection, memory usage and efficiency.
F-Secure is good too, but they need to work on reducing the number of running processes.
1. Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic [Free], or Premium - little over 5MB of memory consumption
2. NOD32
3. BitDefender
4. Kaspersky
5. Symantec
Symantec's heuristics and signatures are top-notch. It's only their interface and bloat that s*cks. AntiVir has better heuristics than NOD32 or Kaspersky 6, and the free Classic edition is way better than most commercial options in terms of detection, memory usage and efficiency.
F-Secure is good too, but they need to work on reducing the number of running processes.
Quad Master
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samrulez said:
I just scanned some folders with NOD32 not the entire computer and did
a full system scan using KAV 6.
I was comparing 100+ threats detected to my OLD Norton AV.
sunbiz_3000
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To all guys who say that ...(whatever)... is my fav antivirus are basing their opinion on what?? Do they run a virus test (forget eicar...coz all AVs do that)?? Do they try coding some viruses?? Do they just look at the infections found?? Do they regularly change AVs and test the detections?? Or do all of you guys just look at the interface or the taskmanager for the Mem Usage and become happy that ur AV takes less memory... Or if some script was blocked and u become happy!!!
Would definately love to hear from all you guys who put their own fav AV or fav AV list!!
Would definately love to hear from all you guys who put their own fav AV or fav AV list!!
Quad Master
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Regarding selecting KAV as my best is beased on articles i read on many international forums where NOD32 and KAv were compared and many sites
which conducted AV reviews where they actually had there virus kits deployed
purposefully infecting the PC and then testing the AV.
I dont have that sort of daring to download viruses and release them on my PC
and let the AV handle all the trouble.
I have based my opinion on the Low sys resource usage + scan time [ok for KAV for me] + articles + reviews.
I have zeroed down on KAV as the choice of AV for me.
@ UDit are u playing a patched game as the fixed game exe might be the cause of the trouble.
haved u tried other games.
I have played farcry , nfs carbon , bf2 , CS no issues at all.
everythings running smoothly , touch wood.
which conducted AV reviews where they actually had there virus kits deployed
purposefully infecting the PC and then testing the AV.
I dont have that sort of daring to download viruses and release them on my PC
and let the AV handle all the trouble.
I have based my opinion on the Low sys resource usage + scan time [ok for KAV for me] + articles + reviews.
I have zeroed down on KAV as the choice of AV for me.
@ UDit are u playing a patched game as the fixed game exe might be the cause of the trouble.
haved u tried other games.
I have played farcry , nfs carbon , bf2 , CS no issues at all.
everythings running smoothly , touch wood.
can u guys have a look at the tests conducted here and then post some comments on it...
AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives
sunbiz_3000
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thixkull said:
I have been reading av-comparatives for the past 3 hrs and studied their different sample-set and techniques. Its a test mainly to do with zoo-samples which IMO is a good way, but isn't the best way. They could infact try modifying some existing virus source codes and write a few new ones and then test.... but they say its unethical!!
Also couldnt find their sample-set anywhere, to try and replicate their test results... Do u know where can I find their sample-set?? I found AV-Test.org · Tests of Anti-Virus- and Security-Software to be a vey good resource while reading this site... They are a lot more scientific and have provided their sample set... I'll b trying it out and match their results!!
Quad Master
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^^^^ waiting for ur results.
sunbiz_3000
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I didn't have much time on hand these past few days, since finding those viruses/source code was quite difficult (and getting infected online I thought was easy)... Also could just install McAfee, Kaspersky 6 and NOD32.
Out of the list that the av-test.org gave, I could only find 408 out of 1806 viruses. All of the binaries I found were detected, since each companies had it in their DB. But then out of the 408.... I found source code of 47 viruses. Modifying them (changing memory pointers, adding few dummy structs) and trying was the test... And here is where I found the bad news (atleast for me)...
McAfee detected all of the modifications. And to my surprise my favs KAV and NOD32 werent able to detect 5 and 3 respectively... I was shocked that after my tests a yr ago... I used to hate McAfee, but now did the best detection.
I decided to experiment a little more, using PECompact and UPX. This time McAfee detected only 6 out of the 47. Infact out of the total 408, after repacking only 21 were detected (mayb the signatures dint change much for these 21 detected). On the other hand, with packing KAV detected 400 and NOD32 detected 392.
After this repacking, I realized even with 3 AVs installed, u cant be sure of being protected (u still need common-sense). I guess a lot more can be done to improve the engines. Also, I was trying my hand in VB (macro) and ASM (for other stuff)... I have found KAV6 to detect a few of these during compiling, which is gr8. But neither NOD32 nor McAfee detected these!!
@mods: this thread should have been in the security solutions section. I actually went there first to find it!
Out of the list that the av-test.org gave, I could only find 408 out of 1806 viruses. All of the binaries I found were detected, since each companies had it in their DB. But then out of the 408.... I found source code of 47 viruses. Modifying them (changing memory pointers, adding few dummy structs) and trying was the test... And here is where I found the bad news (atleast for me)...
McAfee detected all of the modifications. And to my surprise my favs KAV and NOD32 werent able to detect 5 and 3 respectively... I was shocked that after my tests a yr ago... I used to hate McAfee, but now did the best detection.
I decided to experiment a little more, using PECompact and UPX. This time McAfee detected only 6 out of the 47. Infact out of the total 408, after repacking only 21 were detected (mayb the signatures dint change much for these 21 detected). On the other hand, with packing KAV detected 400 and NOD32 detected 392.
After this repacking, I realized even with 3 AVs installed, u cant be sure of being protected (u still need common-sense). I guess a lot more can be done to improve the engines. Also, I was trying my hand in VB (macro) and ASM (for other stuff)... I have found KAV6 to detect a few of these during compiling, which is gr8. But neither NOD32 nor McAfee detected these!!
@mods: this thread should have been in the security solutions section. I actually went there first to find it!
sunbiz_3000
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Yamaraj said:
How did u come to the above conclusion on heuristics?? My test results are quite different from what you r saying!! Or have I not figured out how to test heuristics??
Heuristics == find by evolution (shortest path). Is this what u mean??? If not then please explain me the context in which u mean heuristics??
Wikipedia says: Heuristic (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thought I'd add one more AV program that hasn't been featured here... CA Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware 2007. I was using NavNT 9.0 for 5 years or so and recently it corrupted some system restore files so I had to chuck it. Anyway, while I was scouting around for a replacement AV software, I stumbled upon Computer Associates' (CA) new software for home users and bought them since they're build on the same eTrust engine (their enterprise suite). Both programs have impressed me and I'm glad I bought them - it only cost me $29.99 for both, and they give you 3 licenses for each program 
Quad Master
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Thats a lot for testing that u have done sun.
Thanks for sharing ur results.
Looks like KAv is really bette rthan NOD but since KAV crashes some of my games after few mins of playing have
switched back to NOD and am really happy with it.
Thanks for sharing ur results.
Looks like KAv is really bette rthan NOD but since KAV crashes some of my games after few mins of playing have
switched back to NOD and am really happy with it.