Protecting Your Computer With The Greatest No Cost Antivirus Packages
January 9, 2009 by
At this point you can’t afford to leave your computer without virus protection. Viruses can steal your passwords and lead to having your identity compromised. Other malware can use your computer to send out tons of spam email and get your Internet account canceled. That is nothing to play around with. You need to have up to date quality antivirus protection on your computer continually.
But what if you can’t afford to pay for a high priced antivirus product? What If you were told that you could have the best free antivirus that money can buy at no cost? There are three incredible no cost antivirus products that will protect your computer as well as or better than the top commercial packages.
Why in the World would antivirus publishers give away great antivirus packages for no cost? There are essentially two reasons. The companies offer a fancier version with more features and they know some users will upgrade to the fancier versions. The other reason is build brand recognition so that businesses are more likely to invest in the professional version.
You are certainly wondering if these packages are like the McAfee or Symantec programs that may have been sold with your computer where you get the first year gratis and then have to pay to renew. Not at all. All three of the best free antivirus software packages are no cost year after year. There is no guarantee that they will always have a free version, but it seems to be doing the job for them so I suspect they will.
So how do you find out what these fantastic products are and where to get them? Visit this article on the best free antivirus and you can read about all 3 antivirus programs and find out where you can get them. Your computer and your personal information will be protected and you will sleep better with the knowledge you have the best antivirus product and you didn’t have to pay for it.
Just Me–apologies for taking so long to get back to you (I'll post on the nest thread in case you are over there now)
Two Free Alternatives:
ClamXav — Free Mac Antivirus Software
ClamXav is free Mac antivirus software based on the open source ClamAV engine. ClamXav supports Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4, as well as providing limited support for Mac OS X versions 10.3 and 10.2. Multiple languages are also supported. Unfortunately, its support for virus detection may not be nearly as broad.
PC Tools iAntivirus — Free Mac Antivirus Software
PC Tools iAntivirus offers free Mac antivirus software to home/home office users and for a nominal fee to corporate Macintosh users. iAntivirus guards against Mac only malware – a focus that has its pros and cons. Check this review to decide whether PC Tools iAntivirus is the right Mac antivirus software for your environment.
The Best Antivirus in 2008
- Not Windows Live Onecare 2.0!
By: Marius Oiaga, Technology News Editor
Windows Live OneCare 2.0
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A new year… A new beginning… And the inevitable security solution smackdown. In this context, AV-Test has thrown together in the same arena no less than 24 antivirus products from the heavyweights of the security market. The security solutions were tested against in excess of 1 million malware samples from the last six months. According to Av-Test's Andreas Marx, the test involved only the top of the line, “'best' available Security Suite edition” from each vendor, last updated on January 7, 2008, and running on Windows XP SP2. And yes Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare 2.0 was tested, but no, it's not the best antivirus of 2008. Well, of the beginning of 2008, anyway…
“First, we checked the signature-based on-demand detection of all products against more than 1 Mio. samples we've found spreading or which were distributed during
the last six months (this means, we have not used any 'historic' samples.) We included all malware categories in the test: Trojan Horses, backdoors, bots, worm and viruses. Instead of just presenting the results, we have ranked the product this time, from 'very good' (++) if the scanner detected more than 98% of the samples to 'poor' (–) when less than 85% of the malware was detected,” Marx revealed.
In terms of signature-based on-demand detection, Windows Live OneCare 2.0 held its own. Microsoft's security solution ended up detecting a total of 992,880 out of all the malware samples thrown against it, and accounting for a “Signature Detection” rate of 96.9%. This is nothing short of an excellent score for Windows Live OneCare, an antivirus that at the beginning of 2007 managed to occupy positions only towards the bottom of the security solution pack in early 2007. In the latest AV-Test “Signature Detection” test OneCare 2.0 came on top of F-Prot (986,961 – 96.3%), Panda (979,409 – 95.6%), McAfee (959,919 – 93.7%) and Nod32 (953,936 – 93.1%).
However, OneCare 2.0 was bested by the likes of AVK 2008 (1,022,418 – 99.8%); AntiVir (1,020,627 – 99.6%); Avast! (1,018,204 – 99.4%); Trend Micro (1,009,662 – 98.6%); Symantec (1,006,849 – 98.3%); AVG (1,005,006 – 98.1%); BitDefender (1,003,902 – 98.0%); Kaspersky (1,003,470 – 98.0%);
Sophos (1,001,655 – 97.8%) and F-Secure (999,806 – 97.6%). The complete results of the “Signature Detection” test from AV-Test can be accessed here, courtesy of Sunbelt Software.
“Secondly, we checked the number of false positives of the products have generated during a scan of 65,000 known clean files. Only products with no false positives received a 'very good' (++) rating. In case of the proactive detection category, we have not only focussed on signature- and heuristic-based proactive detection only (based on a retrospective test approach with a one week old scanner). Instead of this, we also checked the quality of the included behavior based guard (e.g. Deepguard in case of F-Secure and TruPrevent in case of Panda). We used 3,500 samples for the retrospective test as well as 20 active samples for the test of the 'Dynamic Detection' (and blocking) of malware,” Marx added.
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is among the few security solutions that have scored a ++ in the test for False Positives. This means that OneCare 2.0 has generated no false positives, a task also completed by the security solutions from Symantec, Nod32, and Fortinet. However, OneCare 2.0 was ranked as having only a poor proactive detection, and a very poor response time to new malware being issued (more than 8 hours). But at the same time, out of all the malicious code it had to go through, OneCare 2,0 only missed two rootkits. The Anti-virus comparison test of current anti-malware products, Q1/2008 can be accessed here.
“Furthermore, we checked how long AV companies usually need to react in case of new, widespread malware (read: outbreaks), based on 55 different samples from the entire year 2007. 'Very good' (++) AV product developers should be able to react within less than two hours. Another interesting test was the detection of active rootkit samples. While it's trivial for a scanner to detect inactive rootkits using a signature, it can be really tricky to detect this nasty malware when they are active and hidden. We checked the scanner's detection against 12 active rootkits,” Marx said.
Haha.. this is funny, Lets not be emotional Superzac. This is what we call freedom of speech. Good suggestion but unfortunately this aint your blog. Let's keep the moderation to your blog ok, and I think that will be sweet. A bit of tickles and chill is good during a brawl and why should we prolong a thing that menjatuhkan martabat wartawan sendiri? Sometimes, jangan lihat apa yang tertulis semata mata Superzac, because you will not see whatever yang dimaksudkan. Read and understand. And if those what you call bodoh comment appears in here does not please you, well, you know what to do kan, or you can either skip the comment, put a folded A4 paper to hide the comment, switch off your computer or terminate your Internet account. Hehe..Cheers and Chill Out Superzac..
if you'd email me ur entire project i can help you, as it stands now i cant really test it out. my email is
In most cases a product's rating went down, expanding the range between highest and lowest rated.Unlike Kaspersky, Symantec provides Norton users with little explanation of its features or settings, either in the configuration settings or on its technical support section. Also we don't like Norton's dependency on Internet Explorer to explain Help items or services provided by Symantec (windows pop up in IE even when Firefox is your default browser), or that fee-based services have once again crept into the technical support section. Having improved a lot
last year in Symantec's flagship antivirus product, it makes sense we'd see more modest enhancements for this year's Norton AntiVirus 2008. While Norton
AntiVirus.
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