THe Best antivirus out there?
But how good is Kaspersky?? Is it better than AVG? My McAfee subscription will be up in a few months and Im going to want to try something that doesnt hog resources and slow my system down. It also must be able to protect me and give me network info of my home network. Anything like that?
well several reviews i have seen state that kaspersky will spot more viruses even when the signatures are more then 2 months old, and with my own test with my viruse collection it recognized 96.7% nortons and mcafee were under 90%.
the newest version of zonealarm uses kaspersky for its antivirus engine.
if you don’t need a firewall then just get the kaspersky antivirus they just released version 7.
as well kaspersky does hourly updates.
Using AVG FREE for well over 5 years now, you may have 0 problems. I also use Lavasoft AD-Aware 2007, also FREE and Zone Alarm .. also FREE - I have a Dell Dimension 2350 so you should know how old my system is and it runs beautifully.
AVG is very light on system resources, you’ll never know it’s running unless a full scan is in progress.
well to answer your question is that software companies pay the hardware companies money to put there software on to your system.
i would suggest that if you haven’t already done so remove mcafee.
i use spy sweeper with antivirus make no mistake its not a replacement for a real antivirus program. live one care its a microsoft product and i really don’t care for it. there are several free antivirus programs that work just as well as the big boys (mcafee, nortons) in catching and removing viruses.
if you need a firewall zonelabs - zonealarm is a good one and its free there is a paid version as well, the paid aka pro version comes with kaspersky antivirus included. if you do buy a new antivirus check out there forums if there’s issues users will post, that’s one good way to know if its truly vista compatible.
