Antivirus Software

[viocjit]

I have been using Eset AV for the last 12 years, never had a virus, never caused me any problems, regular updates, very happy with it.

You can't be certain you did never had any virus because there are ways for some of these to hide themselves from AV like polymorphic code ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code ) , cryptography , act differently that majority of viruses etc...

A virus is a program that replicate itself in the computer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus ) unlike worms ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm ) that replicate themselves to others computers.
We can find malware that does not replicate themselves and many of these are trojan horse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_(computing) ).

There are many categories of malware.
For example some trojan horse are worms and others trojan horse are not.
Some spyware ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware ) are keylogger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging ) but others are not.

[ignoramus]

I love Avira. No issues in years... Except sometimes it complains about some game hacks...

[Aoi Magi]

I use avira too, especially it's heuristics based detection is the best in my experience compared to avast, avg, e.t.c! But don't rely on just your installed antivirus, always keep a bootable rescue disk handy.

[possibletarian]

AS I understand it, Clam AV is an on-demand scanner so much less likely to interfere with anything.

I'm not sure about Linux as I don't use it, what i do know though is there is much less malware out there for it (windows being a much more lucrative market) There probably are things you should tweak in a basic insulation of Linux though.

https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-i...x-mint-19/

[Angrboda]

I've never had any issues running AV software, but not a lot of benefit, either. It's never warned me of a dodgy file, and it's of limited use in that it warns me that I'm about to enter a dodgy site, a warning I typically ignore and browse the dodgy site anyway. I occasionally get reports that a web page has tried to make unauthorized access to my computer, and that the AV has blocked the attempt, but that would probably be of less use if I just stayed away from bad sites.

The conventional wisdom holds. Following best practices is many times more effective at protecting you than anything else.

[fredd bear]

Bitdefender and Malwarebytes. I'm covered with no hassles.

Windows Defender, and Malwarebytes.

Also, I have Macafee WebAdvisor and AdBlock as browser extensions to stop shady programs from infiltrating my computer. And yes, AdBlock counts as antivirus for me because I've had far too many ads redirect me to virus sites for me to ever consider turning it off for my laptop.

Currently AVAST free on my iMac and my laptop, which runs Windows 10 and Linux.

Over the years I've used some commercial systems, such as Norton, Pc-cillin,  McAfee, Bitdefender and Kaspersky.  Perfectly happy  with Avast.  Also have Malwarebytes.

[Atheist2]

I run both Windows 10 Pro and Linux Ubuntu......MalwareBytes and Superantispyware have given me nno problems in years.

https://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

https://www.malwarebytes.com