Gaming best anti virus program

[Sicklyboy]

ignore the dont use an anti virus at all. its a must have especially if your a legal down loader ahem and i recommend AVAST!! for virus protection its thee best and for virus CLEANING, i recommend malwarebytes. best part being that both software are free

While I am an advocate of AV programs and security software, if they don't want to use them and have never suffered any side effects or consequence, then why change their status quo?

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it." If their rig is working fine, don't introduce a change into the system

Just because your car is 2000 miles overdue for an oil change and is still running great doesn't mean the oil is gonna be good forever.

 

[Originality]

That would be valid if the OP were talking about computer hardware (which is similar to cars) but when it comes to software, it is perfectly possible to never get infected even without an AV suite.

Nevertheless, like with other facts of life, I always recommend protection.

 

[Sicklyboy]

That would be valid if the OP were talking about computer hardware (which is similar to cars) but when it comes to software, it is perfectly possible to never get infected even without an AV suite.

Nevertheless, like with other facts of life, I always recommend protection.

Basic principle applies. Just because something has yet to go wrong despite not preventing anything, that doesn't mean nothing will go wrong ever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4423733.stm

The exact article I was thinking of. eight seconds on a Windows XP box without an antivirus or firewall before it got hit with a worm. Granted, this is only one example, but it's an example nonetheless, and a very valid possibility.

 

[Rydian]

While I am an advocate of AV programs and security software, if they don't want to use them and have never suffered any side effects or consequence, then why change their status quo?

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it." If their rig is working fine, don't introduce a change into the system

"I don't SEE any brain tumor, so why do I need to go to a doctor?"

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

While I am an advocate of AV programs and security software, if they don't want to use them and have never suffered any side effects or consequence, then why change their status quo?

"If it ain't broken, don't fix it." If their rig is working fine, don't introduce a change into the system

"I don't SEE any brain tumor, so why do I need to go to a doctor?"

That's a poor example. Try again.

Pertaining to computers, I stand by my point nonetheless.

 

[FAST6191]

Actually that is a pretty good analogy- most people that are not people like those posting in this thread probably do not know how to manually scan their system for all the nasties (and those that are/do really can not be bothered to go manual for a complete scan on a modern system) that could be hiding somewhere (not to mention the nasties tend to prevent the use of tools and burrow deep to prevent removal* to the point where nuking it from orbit is an idea or pretty much needing to boot into a clean OS from CD/USB to get it sorted)- hell I am probably unable to tell you every single autolaunch vector (there are at least 20) and that is before we even get into DLL/exe, boot sector and BIOS injection stuff and MS certainly does not provide tools onboard to sort this (MSConfig, windows defender/removal tool and SFC.... yeah).
Gone are the days where a virus would pop up and say I am a virus, be very blatant or take a good chunk of runtime (10% is still a fair few cycles or bandwidth for your botnet and a lot of keylogging or redirection none of which you really want to have happen to you) and for me more than any other reason (although the lists of things on how even good sites can drop you in it is a close second) that would be why "being careful" is not enough. Certainly I would like people to be more careful and things would be better if it was so but it is not perfect.

*not even one of the horror stories but about 2 years ago I was dealing with an especially nasty variant for the time of the scamware AV programs that hit every HTML file it could get itself wound into up to and including burrowing into the CHM (help) files.

 

[raulpica]

Like I've always said in every AV thread till now...

I work as a PC technician, so these are statistics gathered by me on the field in a few years of work:

Almost every PC with malware/virus problems that comes in has Avast. Avast looks to be completely useless in most cases and av-comparatives.org reflects this. I've also had cases where Avast gave problems to the PC (BSODs, freezes, slowdowns) itself.

PCs with AVG and Avira are the ones with less malware on them (I refer to the sheer number of crap that enters the PCs. They're not invulnerable, but they get a lt less crap on them than the others do).

Keep in mind that the PCs that come in are used by the most PC-impaired people around (families, little kids, old people), so they're under a FAR larger risk of getting malware than a normal forum user would. Which is a perfect situation to make a statistic like this one.

Anyways, tl;dr: avast is crap.

 

[Qtis]

aside from bootcamp, which requires a reboot each time you want to use windows, theres parallels which is not actually free but better in the sense that it requires no reboot, runs right of your OS and it supports windows 7

Parallels and VMWare are great pieces of software, but unfortunately don't fit for gaming very well. Games running on Windows OS don't always recognize the GPU available and of course the CPU/GPU/RAM/etc losses for running two OS' side by side.

@[member='plasma dragon007']: I mentioned all the programs I use. Technically I've got a laptop, which happens to work well for gaming, and also has OS X as the main OS. For gaming I use the Win7 partition and run Symantec/F-Secure on it. So far no problems (also works well for the PS2 emu for example)

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Just because you go around having sex without a condom with every bar skank you meet, and never get an STD, it doesn't mean you're invulnerable to them. It just means you're extremely lucky.

Same with AVs, You could go without one for years, but just because you havn't gotten a virus yet, doesn't mean you won't. And when you do, it's gonna be nasty.

 

[Rydian]

That's a poor example. Try again.

Not using any AV and then assuming you're not infected because you don't ses anything' wrong... Incredibly naive. That's like not going to a doctor for a checkup because you don't think anything's wrong, thus the example.

Think about it for a minute. If you know you have a virus, what will you try to do? You'll try to remove it, right? Does the virus want to be removed? No. So isn't it in the best interest of most infections to never give you any signs that they exist? And that's where most people go wrong. People who don't use any AV software because they think they're not infected are often the people with the worst infections.

All those stats you see online about how many machines are infected without the users knowing aren't from users that are getting adware popups and shit, it's from users using outdated or no AV software and thinking they're just fine.

Telling a user it's okay to not use an AV software is total bullshit harmful advice, and I will not allow it on this forum.

EDIT: BBcode fix.

 

[Originality]

Well, it is ok not to use AV software, but it's just plain stupid. Equally it's ok not to go protected during sex, but don't blame anyone but yourself if you catch diseases/viruses on both your body and your computer as a result.

In life, it's just better to be protected.

EDIT: Mazor's post below makes me lol

 

[spotanjo3]

I am using Microsoft Security Essential and Ad-Aware. I dont have a problem for less than 3 years

 

[Mazor]

And to Rydian and Originality's posts all I have to say is: No-AV master race represent.

My tip to the members of this forum is to join the dark side, fuck the police, no AV 4 lyfe etc.

 

[the_randomizer]

That's a poor example. Try again.

Pertaining to computers, I stand by my point nonetheless.

Meh. Whatever sinks your boat.

 

[snakepliskin2334]

i have another question what would be the two best sources of virus programs to have on pc?

 

[yellowsnowcone]

i have another question what would be the two best sources of virus programs to have on pc?

Any two avid facebook users that like clicking yes or OK, use IE, and do not use any ad or plug-in blocking.

 

[59672]

common sense

 

[Rydian]

Also easily-googled crack/serial/warez sites, they tend to have very lax requirements on their ads, and many of the cracks themselves are often infected before being re-upped to the site.

 

[DigitalDeviant]

Like I've always said in every AV thread till now...

I work as a PC technician, so these are statistics gathered by me on the field in a few years of work:

Almost every PC with malware/virus problems that comes in has Avast. Avast looks to be completely useless in most cases and av-comparatives.org reflects this. I've also had cases where Avast gave problems to the PC (BSODs, freezes, slowdowns) itself.

PCs with AVG and Avira are the ones with less malware on them (I refer to the sheer number of crap that enters the PCs. They're not invulnerable, but they get a lt less crap on them than the others do).

Keep in mind that the PCs that come in are used by the most PC-impaired people around (families, little kids, old people), so they're under a FAR larger risk of getting malware than a normal forum user would. Which is a perfect situation to make a statistic like this one.

Anyways, tl;dr: avast is crap.

What do you think about NOD32?

 

[Cyan]

I think I got infected while having nod32 once (installing a random software on my real environment instead of VMWare is a very bad idea !)
I had a previous ghost of my system, so I could rescue it easilly.

I'm still using NOD32, but I don't do anything reckless anymore.