AVG vs Avast vs Avira vs Comodo (Best free antivirus detection?) 

You are most welcome! Happy new year to you as well!

fuck that :D AVG

yes. That is precisely what this test is. If you are asking why I did a signature test again, the answer is that since malware keeps changing all the time and the test uses a small sample size, it is important to conduct these tests regularly to see what is going on. In the last few tests I have been noticing that Comodo's detection seems to be on the decline.

Nah, Avast is updated its better now like the best antivirus

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@@beta3118 nah ur trash

@@xE92vD avast is for real trash

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The tests which you mentioned above will be upcoming soon on The PC Security Channel in the near future. Thanks!

WoW this is awesome thank's

+Luka Milic Avast or Avira. Easy to use, nice interface, good detection. AVG keeps trying to make you not uninstall it, it gives out information about people through ads.

No idea where you got that idea. I've got AVG installed on dozens of machines and it doesn't do what you seem to think it does at all on any of them. There are no "ads" that come up with AVG other than offers to upgrade to the paid version or accept trial installations of AVG products and features. As far as uninstalling, AVG is easy and simple to uninstall. I've uninstalled AVG many times, for various reasons, and never had any problems uninstalling it at all. In addition, when revisiting clients machines that had Avira installed on them for a number of years (which itself was a significant improvement over Avast) and installing AVG instead for the performance increase and reduced boot times it offers (boot times cut in half in most cases, and system performance noticeably improved over the sluggish and resource hungry Avira agent), I was surprised to find AVG was able to detect and clean items on more than one machine that had slipped right past Avira. So, in my experience with these three free Anti-virus programs, AVG was not only the most effective, but also provided the fastest boot times, along with the best system performance on literally dozens of machines that I installed and tested it on. None of these machines have ever had any privacy problems; none has ever had third party ads, nor has any reviewer ever mentioned any adware being installed by AVG anywhere on the internet (which by itself would be disastrous to the company); and it's uninstall, if desired for any reason, is very easy and straightforward. Not sure how you came to any of the conclusions that you seem to, but nothing that you stated seems to be an accurate description or assessment of AVG at all, which is a fine product with no privacy issues or uninstall issues at all...

Avast is a fantastic product and offers great protection. Thank you for commenting!

Yavor Kirov I believe that anti-malware and anti-viruses are the same. Malware and viruses means the same thing.

ReactiveMayhem I believe that Malwarebytes is a second opinion scanner, for it is. Malwarebytes is not an antivirus. It scans for what antiviruses miss, therefore it will have the loweet detection ratio. Around 75%.

ProperNoun same thing with Hitman Pro and it beat all of them by detection...

Anonymous Mystery Please rephrase what you just said. I didn't quit catch it.

+Anonymous Mystery anti-malware and av not same

For this video, Avira has the best signatures. But the best antivirus isn't all about signatures. You have to know how much resource usage it takes up, too. And is it easy to use?

+alexxxvill69 It is.. But the scans are SLOW!

+Luka Milic Dude, AVG isn't the best. There are better ones out there

I had Avira installed on all my machines (xp, win7, desktop & laptop), as well as on the machines of family members and clients for a few years, as back then, perhaps 7 or 8 years ago, Avira had the best protection and had minimal system impact. However, about two years ago, when building a new quad core machine for my nephew, the last thing I installed was the antivirus. I had read a number of reviews comparing Avira & AVG and they really were neck and neck for #1 in protection. So, wanting to give him the fastest performance on his new machine, I compared the boot times of Avira & AVG and was pretty disappointed when Avira slowed the machines boot time from about 45 sec to nearly 2 minutes. I also noted that his CPU utilization was negatively impacted by the Avira agent, which seemed to constantly use resources, which affected the performance of every app on his machine negatively. So, I restored the machine to a restore point prior to the Avira install, and verified boot time was peppy again, and CPU utilization was minimal, staying around 99% idle. I then installed AVG and again tested the machines performance. The machine once again booted in the 45 second area to get to the desktop with everything loaded and ready to use. Surprisingly, the CPU utilization was barely affected, with system idle remaining between 98-99%. So, I was able to deliver a very fast, very peppy machine to my nephew, with windows that opened nearly instantaneously on the net, and applications that themselves opened an responded nearly instantaneously as well. After this, I tested startup times and performance on my 4 computers, removed Avira and installed AVG instead, and found a drastic improvement in startup times, as well as an increase in performance on every one. Over the next couple of months, I went through the process of removing Avira and installing AVG on ever family members machines, and doing the same for my clients as well, and got the same results on every machine. In addition to improved performance, I was surprised to find on a couple of machines that I did this swap on that AVG was able to detect trojans and malware that Avira had missed, and was able to clean the problems out and restore the machine to an ever cleaner and healthier state than Avira had been able to do. So, my take on this, as someone who's been involved in IT as a professional for over 30 years, is that things have always been competitive in the software world, and perhaps nowhere as much as in the anti-virus/anti-malware segment. What company had the most effective product would change year to year, and sometimes even month to month when compared against each other. While Avira offered the best free anti-virus program perhaps 7-8 years ago, over time with all of their updates and changes to their anti-virus engine and updates to their agent, there was a noticeable drop in system performance at one point about 4-5 years ago, and that drop in performance was never addressed or rectified since that time. When I had a good opportunity to compare Avira to AVG, AVG was reviewed consistently to be as good or better than Avira in every review I came across (perhaps 7 or 8 different independent reviewers). In real world A/B testing, AVG was far superior not only in maintaining a machine at it's highest level of performance, but also in detecting and removing malware that Avira had let slip right by. In the 2 years or so since installing AVG on dozens of machines, there has not been one infection, and every machine I've had a chance to revisit, along with my own personal machines, has remained running optimally, maintaining their minimal boot times and fast performance (one Win7 machine I upgraded with an SSD boots in 15 seconds even a year and a half after the update with AVG on it). So, as far as I'm concerned, AVG wins, hands down... no question at all.

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