On 8/7/2015 8:03 AM, Paul wrote:
Jonas Q wrote:
On 06-Aug-2015 13:47, Ron wrote:
On 8/6/2015 1:36 PM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:03:10 -0400, Ron wrote:

On 8/6/2015 7:30 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:03:26 -0400, Vitalic wrote:

I recommend Avira

Why?


Why not?

There are alternatives. On this machine I'm using Lavasoft Ad-Aware
but that's crashing one other machine I have so I moved to Avast.
But I've no real idea which is best.


Sure there are alternatives, but Avira is one of the top free AVs that
you can use. Has been for years.

Lavasoft Ad-Aware? I haven't used that in about 10 years. And that is
not an AV program. It is to be used in addition to your AV program.
Malwarebytes and Superantispware are better programs though.

Yep. Check your facts.
http://www.lavasoft.com/

I like Wikipedia, for some background info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-Aware

"In the 2008 Edition, Lavasoft bundled Ad-Aware Pro and Plus
for the first time with an antivirus scanner,

which used the Avira engine ---

and this arrangement continued for a few years.

Starting with Ad-Aware version 10,
the Bitdefender antivirus engine was used instead." ---

Note that this is a popular option in the industry.
Several of the companies, sell their engine to third
parties. And that's how an Adware program can acquire
basic AV capabilities.

Such an AV capability might be signature based. You
wouldn't expect industry-leading heuristic detection.
But, signature analysis is better than no protection
at all.

So before using a product like that, you would check
the recent AV-Comparatives for Bitdefender, and see
what percentage of stuff Bitdefender detects. And make
your decision that way.

Paul

Guess I should have read your post before posting the Wiki link. lol