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AV TEST for Home User
Before asking "What's the best AV" look at the above links.
Your choice for an Anti-Virus is the MOST IMPORTANT choice you'll make for your systems security so choose well and thoughtfully.
The choice of AV is a question of preference, habits, amount of protection needed(Basic versus Advanced), resource use(how much RAM do you have & which generation CPU do you have, can you run it in the background without your system freezing up), and of course money(free or paid).
Some people like an AV with an user interface that that has all the "bells & whistles" to look at and set(so they know it's running) like telling them every tracking cookie on their system(not really needed, they'll be back the next time you visit a/the site), others "like me" just want it to run in the background(set & forget) until it finds a real threat. This is what I mean by preference.
For Basic verses Advanced, I mean one needs added protection when doing online money transactions(then you'll probably need to get a paid version).
Another thing to look at, when choosing an AV, is their "False Positives" rate. This was brought to my attention through a Security News posting from A Guy(Thanks for always keeping us informed Bill). If you follow the link, it will explain why this is very important under "Why Does It Matter?".
As a last note, sometimes a 3rd party AV will conflict with Windows Updates so if you start seeing a problem, you'll need to go to your AV's website to get more information at their forums and sometimes wait until they have corrected the problem and update the AV. For example:
This is not new from 2010:
AV TEST for Home User
Before asking "What's the best AV" look at the above links.
Your choice for an Anti-Virus is the MOST IMPORTANT choice you'll make for your systems security so choose well and thoughtfully.
The choice of AV is a question of preference, habits, amount of protection needed(Basic versus Advanced), resource use(how much RAM do you have & which generation CPU do you have, can you run it in the background without your system freezing up), and of course money(free or paid).
Some people like an AV with an user interface that that has all the "bells & whistles" to look at and set(so they know it's running) like telling them every tracking cookie on their system(not really needed, they'll be back the next time you visit a/the site), others "like me" just want it to run in the background(set & forget) until it finds a real threat. This is what I mean by preference.
For Basic verses Advanced, I mean one needs added protection when doing online money transactions(then you'll probably need to get a paid version).
Another thing to look at, when choosing an AV, is their "False Positives" rate. This was brought to my attention through a Security News posting from A Guy(Thanks for always keeping us informed Bill). If you follow the link, it will explain why this is very important under "Why Does It Matter?".
As a last note, sometimes a 3rd party AV will conflict with Windows Updates so if you start seeing a problem, you'll need to go to your AV's website to get more information at their forums and sometimes wait until they have corrected the problem and update the AV. For example:
Source ZDNet
This is not new from 2010:
Source techweekeurope
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