Questions about Anti-Virus?

First, please read this article:
Has The Antivirus Industry Gone Mad?!

Secondly, in the past Free AVs were good, the only difference being that with a paid antivirus you get support which usually isn't available or is limited with free versions.

Secondly, Paid Antivirus solutions usually get faster signature updates and may or may not have additional protection features such as but not limited to browser extensions to help protect against malicious websites (which IMO is useless since if you download a virus to your computer or a bad file, the Antivirus File Detection scanner will catch it anyway but the extension may prevent it from getting onto you computer in the first place at the expense of a few false positives and/or a lag in browsing speed)

Finally, at this day and age, it is almost impossible to find a CLEAN free Antivirus with no ads/nags/PUP (potentially unwanted programs) bundled, etc (with the exception of Microsoft's Windows Defender which as improved a lot lately (see:
Windows Defender Is Becoming the Powerful Antivirus That Windows 10 Needs) albeit it is not very light as other paid solutions are on your system.

So if you want the lightest AV solution with proper customer support, no nags, no ads, no potentially unwanted bundled programs, it is best to buy a paid license.

I am using TrustPort Antivirus at the moment which has its own scanning engine in addition to the Bitdefender and AVG scanning engines and it has not HTTP scanning which I prefer as it doesn't slow down my internet. Other great options are Eset's NOD32 and Avira Antivirus and Avast Antivirus Pro

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Questions about Anti-Virus?