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It's official: avg is superior, panda antivirus is impeccable, nod32 is a good choice, avast is acceptable, kaspersky is ordinary, symantec is crap, not enough data for mcafee.

Comparing avast vs avg vs kaspersky vs mcafee vs nod32 vs panda antivirus vs symantec
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avg
 89%
panda antivirus
 75%
nod32
 71%
avast
 60%
kaspersky
 55%
symantec
 31%
mcafee
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On 23 July 2009 at 5:58 am commentguy said:
hi guys, im a IT professional and work for AVG and i really liked that you like our job but the truth is that we don't develop it all by ourselves. Well, there is a reason why McAfee and norton are called bad or not good. the real thing is that we steal from them
On 17 August 2009 at 12:10 pm Shubhodip said:
Avast! Is the best AV in the market
On 28 October 2009 at 2:36 am jimflint said:
forget it about AVG, I had a worst nightmare with this, I was infected when AVG was working and the virus stop access to anti virus web pages
On 12 November 2009 at 1:59 am crushburn said:
AVG has poor detection. kaspersky and nod32 would do the job.
On 20 November 2009 at 5:27 pm mili said:
only mcafee nothing ether
On 21 November 2009 at 3:32 am xwolf said:
Only Avast! McAfee is too heavy.
On 24 November 2009 at 10:40 am fffvb said:
quik heal a best
On 26 November 2009 at 5:19 am Aaron said:
Basicly avg is the way to go! its new 9.0 free edition is perfect! free! easy to use! and reliable with quick updates and a hard virus vault to stop those nasty viruses and infections, the size of avg is much smaller than the rest and wont slow down your system !
On 26 November 2009 at 11:39 am so said:
well my d1&k is bigger than you
On 29 November 2009 at 9:43 pm sr71 said:
I had the same problem...my pc was infected while AVG was in operation. I bought Kaspersky 2009 and it worked very well except it will totally delete your folder when/if infected and the folder will not open unless you use the back way approach and the folder which will be hidden after K has dealt with it, will take up your memory space. Weird approach. I look forward to trying out Norton 2010
On 3 December 2009 at 12:52 am Jake said:
im 15 but ive been in to computers and made 1 and upgraded a couple. I help set up my family's computers and i perfer avast i used avg norton mcafffe nod32 and kaspersky not panda and i like avast it saved my friends computer. Avast mmy fav the avg is my sec fav. Plus avast is free.
On 10 December 2009 at 1:14 pm fyyjgmb gukhj said:
avg antivirus fre editon 9.0 this is best antivirus
On 11 December 2009 at 10:54 am thezanny said:
guys try the cloud anti-virus free by panda technologies. Seems ok with me. Well, AVG 9 is a crap and avast and cloud can beat it easily
On 12 December 2009 at 3:28 am ........... said:
what about panda,i plan to test it
On 12 December 2009 at 8:27 pm adam said:
this is not a virus test because avg ranks at the bottom
On 15 December 2009 at 8:27 pm Adrian Thomas said:
So AVG is supposedly ranked No 1 that hasn't been my experience at all. I have used AVG for the past 4 years and watched it steadily become more gimmicky and resource heavy. V 8.0 - 8.5 came with numerous problems particularly with updating and database errors. The most recent being the last few days when V 8.5 basically stopped working the databases required updating and couldnt be updated and various components became inactive. AVG's response to my request for assistance was to uninstall V8.5 and install V9.0. Easier said than done /I spent in excess of 16 hours trying to uninstall V8.5 and install V.90. When I finally had it sorted I discovered that in the process of doing so it had wiped my Email Inbox (Mozilla Thunderbird) It took me another 3 hours to resolve that issue thanks to a little help from various posts on the net I was able to restore it. I received no assistance from AVG Technical Support on these issues at all other than being told to install V9.0. The support is just not good enough and the product has become like others available top heavy on no essentials. I couldn't recommend it.
On 16 December 2009 at 1:32 am hamwa said:
sounds like you're more of a danger to your pc than a virus. 16 hours!!
On 24 December 2009 at 5:18 am Rishabh said:
Kaspersky is the best.... I had Norton, it bugged my PC, then I changed to McAfee, It was fine, then AVG, damn poor protection. Then ESET, worked gr8, but had less protection, Then quickheal, Awesome protection and now KIS, best of all
On 26 December 2009 at 9:26 pm jerry said:
avast is the best anitivirus...it's full-featured...it has great malware detection compare with avg...it's light unlike avg that slows down your pc..with the speed avast is fastest...
On 28 December 2009 at 8:27 am washington said:
Nod32 should top this list. And Mcfee should be last. I wonder why Toshiba laptops come with the mcfee, its pretty bogus. Nod32 on the other hand is very fast and light on the machine.
On 11 January 2010 at 9:49 am IT pro said:
why don't you guys try out VIPRE or DR Web??? By the way K-7 endpoint protection also does the job.. my personal ranking for av's are: KAV, NOD 32, DR Web, SAV, K-7, VIPRE....
On 6 February 2010 at 7:04 am op7pwner said:
kav9 is the best, its very light for a computer and its secure
On 21 February 2010 at 12:36 am hackerespia said:
yo prefiero nod 32 es lijero y efectivo, aunque el KIS es muy bueno pero algo pesado. pasad por mi foro: hackerespia.creatuforo.com
On 24 February 2010 at 11:57 am Mesh said:
This chart is bulls!@t. No way in hell should AVG be the best. It may be most popular. But thats it.
On 25 February 2010 at 5:02 pm edg said:
avg kill win kernel! the best av around (and also the lighter) is antivir from avira
On 9 March 2010 at 9:50 pm rohan said:
nod32 is the best then the others
On 16 March 2010 at 10:57 pm john said:
avg is the best among of those anti virus, it has the best features which can rely help your pc works faster and protected against viruses.
On 17 March 2010 at 2:46 pm mansson said:
the new panda is the best by farˇˇ very good detection
On 23 March 2010 at 1:20 pm Joseph said:
Cloud computing is the next and new wavew, Panda antivirus has not failed me and it is super light.
On 3 April 2010 at 9:58 am Sam said:
AVG is horrible. They say all of "It has this feature" and so on. Those features NEVER worked for me. So I tried other AV's -- Norton & Nod32 hated my computer, and then I tried Avast. It really gets the idea out when you get a virus, which is even toggle-able, which I like. Avast, is the best out there.
On 11 April 2010 at 4:18 pm mahdi from Irn said:
m friend i test almost all of anti virus and i know their weak and strong point : AVG use too much pc resource and is not still userfriendly bitdefender is fantastic but slowdown your internet and sometimes conflict with winxp , offline update I couldn't find kaspersky almsot good in everything and the good part is that you can save its update for any recovery moment. almost light and very user friendly ESET smart security , light, offline update easily but still lack of firewall and a perfect antispy avira : as far I test it it was good , to be frank I havn't test it long time panda , lack of perfect total security sometimes try to fix files that most of times it fails mcafee, norton lets forget it zone alarm extreme ,perfect but not very userfriendly pccilin good with heavy update and sometime takes too much system resource specially when its scanning my lastest test of avast came back to 5 years ago so my description won't help any more but it was good not perfect G-data good ( very good and smart anti virus)but heavy and not very user fiendly now I have kaspersky 2010 and I'm not going to change it
On 13 April 2010 at 10:15 am guily6669 said:
From who the heck are those statistics? LOL? panda antivirus in 2nd place? That mus be the worst anti virus ever made, KARSPERSKY and NOD32 are the best in protection...
On 15 April 2010 at 11:14 pm commentguy said:
Epic Fail on commentguy's earlier post. If he really worked for any company he wouldn't talk about stealing from other companies, because that company's success means more money for him. Again, Epic Fail you dull loser.
On 16 April 2010 at 4:31 am GForce said:
AVG HIP HOP and slam dunkin' the competitors. I've heard version 10 will be even cooler!
On 16 April 2010 at 10:00 am JamesCh said:
Well, I actually work in I.T. and I can say HANDS DOWN that AVG 9 is what we install for BANKS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, and other high profile clients. We wouldn't be installing it if it didn't earn our trust back a couple of years ago. AVG's detection rate is one of the highest in the industry. To all the Nay-sayer's out there that swear AVG is bloated, well then they obviously haven't used it in a couple of editions, or their hardware must be INCREDIBLY slow or outdated. I've seen them all in action. I like AVG, Kaspersky, and NOD32. To everyone that says AVG had poor detection rates: which version were you using?! Must have been the free version. AVG's paid solution ROCKS! The Link-scanner feature for browsers, coupled with the indexed scan (by md5 sum) makes AVG very light-weight, very fast, and very proactive versus reactive. If your computer runs like crap after installing AVG, then trust me, there's more wrong with your computer. As an ANTI-VIRUS it's awesome. For anti-spyware (unless you are using the paid edtion), look else-where.
On 16 April 2010 at 11:55 am Vivek kumar said:
I hv been using avg for past 10~12 months. It may not be the best, but it certainly gets the job done. Before, i used install an av, then uninstall it and install a new one. And believe me, i hv used nearly everything, except panda, so i dont know how effective is that. Avast is pretty gd. Please dont go for norton, its surely crap. Try nod32, better than many recognisea and reputed ones.
On 16 April 2010 at 2:50 pm shah mie said:
I try panda cloud av and its superb performance... now, my company used Panda Managed Office Protection and it's extreamly light... savin most of my IT support time. protection also very good....
On 16 April 2010 at 5:51 pm antipanda said:
Panda is definitely not the best choice and for sure is not 2nd to the others. Kav by far has come out with the most usefull detecting to date along with them being the first to detect tdss rootkits where Panda fails big time. Panda will however stop good software and apps in their tracks with its state of the art firewall (what a joke)
On 17 April 2010 at 11:34 am HoodedHound said:
Panda, definitely. I'm really anti-Norton and McAfee. I had friggin 311 viruses when I used McAfee and Norton just wouldn't update.
On 18 April 2010 at 3:33 pm Alex WebSec said:
Windows 7 1- McAfee (IS 2010) 2 - Norton( IS 2010 )
On 19 April 2010 at 10:44 am Sagar said:
AVAST 5.0 is simply the best.
On 26 April 2010 at 9:52 am Rajat said:
This avg seems to be too good, my system performance has just not been compromised which is usually the case with the anti virus's.
On 27 April 2010 at 7:27 am Akhil said:
Avast is best.It is smart,fast and protects your pc.On the other hand,panda cloud antivirus is also working good.It is light and doesn't slow down your PC
On 27 April 2010 at 3:59 pm kingdom said:
Well, I used all of these antivirus except for Panda. I recommend AVG, Eset Nod32 and Kaspersky. My best choice is Kaspersky becouse it is fast, easy to use and protects your system smartly. Avast doesn't detect the deepest viruses so it is bad. McAfee is a good solution but it is too heavy and your pc is getting slower and slower. Finally, Norton has many disadvantages. As a result it is not a good antivirus. All in all, Kaspersky is the best!!!
On 1 May 2010 at 10:11 pm wk said:
panda antivirus is sucks, it didn't protect your pc 100% at all, it almost ruin a big construction corporate company and cause a lot of trouble to each pc, kaspersky antivirus is the best, don't believe with this panda antivirus, it only make your pc more worst then ever, complicated and fussy. People out there don't take panda antivirus
On 13 May 2010 at 3:02 am confu said:
people im very confused , which one should i get ? avg avast or mcafee?
On 19 May 2010 at 9:11 am Ralph said:
I won't touch Norton's witha barge pole. I had great difficulty with it. I once had McAfee and it crashed leaving me high and dry. At the moment I have AVG9 free and am very happy with it.
On 20 May 2010 at 7:52 am Kris said:
lol, its a joke right, avg its´the worse choice
On 2 June 2010 at 12:39 pm Astrix said:
I,m ever used all of them accept Panda, I did lots of surfing and downloading free application and utilities to try out from all over the place, all of them made yours systems lagged, there NO NO NO AV that make your systems smooth,I sticked to Kaspersky till to date cause it never ever failed me, the rest yes..so make the right choice..tried above mention AV at Laptop; CPU-Pentium 1.73ghz 4gb RAM,and PC; CPU Core Dual Core 4gb RAM PC Overclocked to 1000mhz run OS from WinXP Pro - Vista Ultimate and Now Win7 Ultimate, still Kaspersky my Best Choice..try it n u will know it
On 15 June 2010 at 7:30 pm lotto said:
do you guys know SMADAV ??? hahaha... its the best!
On 17 June 2010 at 12:53 am Herbert Rogers said:
AVG 9.0 with latest Updates, etc. Am surprised and disappointed at what (it) is allowing to come-through. I do some on-line banking and Web-Surfing. Scans are Great for cookies...but that's about it. "Serious" file-scanning...well...I'm not sure who will really do the job....
On 30 June 2010 at 11:32 am Greg Zeng said:
Check a later, more detailed review: brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/34746.aspx AVG seems quite poor.
On 9 July 2010 at 12:56 am Kwik said:
I don't think AVG the best. Because I had used it, also used Panda Antivirus and McAfee too..But these antivirus didnot provide effective protection. Rather created more Problems. Now, I'm using Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 which is far better than other. And it's best from my side.
On 9 July 2010 at 9:25 am xxptxx said:
Avast 5 Home is best antivirus I have ever seen
On 9 July 2010 at 12:23 pm Weegee said:
Norton kicks ass now.
On 19 July 2010 at 3:55 pm n a m e l e s s said:
I have used AVG for years and have never been let down. My computer guy, proffessional of more than 20 years doesn't recommend anything else, and I'm glad I switched from expensive Norton to AVG.
On 25 July 2010 at 1:15 pm Dip said:
Hey Pal...i m using AVG 9.0..it is a Best Antivirus...It wont slowdown ur PC.. Fast+Easy+best Result...Tht's all..
On 3 August 2010 at 10:24 pm hi said:
hi
On 10 August 2010 at 2:33 pm Avast solos said:
I have used many programs like AVG (its horrible) Norton, Mcafee etc. But all of them were consuming computer speed and even failed to detect threats (especially AVG). AVAST! is the best program. It also has powerful real-time internet protection that will blocked the virus from the site and still lets you view the material.
On 25 August 2010 at 7:16 am netgamero said:
avast is a crap! this top is paid by AVG, also a crap! scan your computers with McAfee or Symantec after you have used AVG or Avast, and you will see that I am wright!! Nod32 is a joke. I have experience of more than 1000 PC's. Try Kaspersky, Symantec or McAfee if you want a real solution, all the rest are junks.
On 1 September 2010 at 12:55 pm computerserviceguy said:
Avast is my personal favorite. I've used McAffee and Norton in the past with regret. Both were too slow or bloated in my opinion. Avast is free and a very useful tool to disinfect a computer with. I'm happy enough with it not to try others and possibly get burned. Hey, it's still a free country. use what works for you. I'm thankful for the work the developers of antivirus+ software do, they are the unspoken heroes behind the scenes keeping our systems working.

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