im starting to hate avast more and more.. whats a good alternative?
 

The thing i hate the most is that every virus popup needs manual interaction, and i cant be bothered to check the settings because there are so many i cant find the one to just automatically delete or move infected objects.. it all needs manual clicks. Just like when you do a startup scan, that needs manual interaction too, if you dont it just stays stuck.. I never run an antivirus scan while im staring at the screen waiting like a zombie for the next popup to click away, no, ive got other things to do... i want a simple antivirus that runs automatically without thousands of settings, one thats efficient, automatic and good. Avast fucking sucks.

Bump for answers for nico-t.

Looking for a free replacement? AVG is the most popular I think and Microsoft just released one that looks decent.

AVG
http://free.avg.com/
Review: http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-S...-10969260.html

Microsoft Security Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/
Review: http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Vi...-10320142.html

another for AVG

Been trying out the new Panda Cloud Antivirus...

The prog takes memory intensive processes and performs them in the cloud. And it's free.

Link: http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/

Love the idea, hate the fact it doesn't have a scheduler.

I use malwarebyte

Eset is pretty good.

thanks alot!! will check all of em out :thumbsup

I have eset running as well but the problem is they don't seen to catch alot of stuff and I end up having to use malwarebyte/search&destroy to get rid of spyware.

+1 for AVG

I usually help people with AVG because it's simple and works OK.

If you're not a cheapass, NOD32 is awesome, and Symantec Corporate Edition do pretty well. Norton is just a bloated sack of dog vomit.

ThunderByte AV was the world's most awesome, but it didn't make the transition to Windows.

It ran in protected mode and created a virtual x86 process and softvectored all read/writes to identify how the code ran in a virtual machine to identify heuristics, instead of just scanning for patterns like the rest of the time. It was a technological marvel.

free: AVG or AVIRA
paid: Nod32

AVG has become nagware IMHO. I used to swear by it but their up-sell tactics are getting aggressive. A pain for me because I installed in all my friends / families PCs and now they are all calling me wondering what to do. Ugg...

Avira is good!

avira free-av.com all the way - 6 years, 4 machines never 1 problem... ad pop-ups can be a tad irritating tho

Try AVG :thumbsup