Free AV Software

**Liare** · October 13 2011, 06:17:46 PM

right, so AVG just went full retard (oh all right, they did that two years ago with the interface, but i dont have to fucking LOOK at that anyway) and started whining about the memory consumption of my VM Ware Player and Firefox (just because i got between 10 and 40 tabs open at any given time, and a Virtual machine allocating 2 GB out of 8 is a fucking problem now ?)

so its time to boot it out, because its my computer and i fucking hate applications trying to tell me what i can and cant do. anyway i have heard that Microsoft Security essentials is good, C/D ?

**EntroX** · October 13 2011, 06:23:46 PM

microsoft security essentials

**Liare** · October 13 2011, 06:24:41 PM

Originally Posted by EntroX

microsoft security essentials

three words, one with a heavy baggage train of

yet no confirm or deny.

**EntroX** · October 13 2011, 06:27:19 PM

stop being a dumb faggot, its free and works wonders, not to mention how little resources it uses.

also, i think we've had like 3 of these threads, l2searchn00b
http://failheap-challenge.com/showth...ght=anti-virus

**Itiken** · October 13 2011, 06:29:10 PM

Avira's got a higher detection rate / rating than MSE, but is more obtrusive. Also L2S

**fffuuu** · October 13 2011, 06:31:35 PM

anybody use ClamAV?

**Liare** · October 13 2011, 06:32:52 PM

Originally Posted by EntroX

stop being a dumb faggot, its free and works wonders, not to mention how little resources it uses.

also, i think we've had like 3 of these threads, l2searchn00b
http://failheap-challenge.com/showth...ght=anti-virus

meh, i could not really be bothered to search, there i said it. i vaguely remember some discussion about the subject saying MSE was teh shizzle, but knowing how full of shit some posters are id rather not gamble based on memory.

also, your post could be taken as a anal retentive correction of my capitalization of Microsoft Security essentials, nub.

**Liare** · October 13 2011, 06:34:51 PM

Originally Posted by Itiken

Avira's got a higher detection rate / rating than MSE, but is more obtrusive. Also L2S

what really pisses me off with AVG is the false positives.

YES I KNOW THAT PACKAGER IS TYPICALLY USED BY TROJANS, NOW LET ME USE MY FUCKING FILE!

marking VNC as "potentially dangerous" is so much

that it beggars belief.

**EntroX** · October 13 2011, 06:50:38 PM

Originally Posted by Liare

meh, i could not really be bothered to search, there i said it. i vaguely remember some discussion about the subject saying MSE was teh shizzle, but knowing how full of shit some posters are id rather not gamble based on memory.

also, your post could be taken as a anal retentive correction of my capitalization of Microsoft Security essentials, nub.

wat

**Warpath** · October 13 2011, 06:58:16 PM

Use MSE here. used to use AVG until version 8 iirc when it went tits up, then used Avaast until it let a keylogger onto my rig which allowed my wow acount/email adresses to be hacked.. then told me it was there after the bloody event. Then switched to Nod32 until it decided it would would stall half way through a search everytime it hit the files for WoT.. now been using MSE for a year or so?