whats the best antivirus

[kotiq]

Avast antivirus: ***1043;***1086;***1088;***1076;***1099;***1081;:

[ajax2061]

avast and malwarebytes gets my vote also, lost count on how many times I have installed it on other ppl's machines

[ramjet]

Do you not think that is a wee bit heavy pal, to run Comodo and MSE next to each other isn't ideal as you have 2 signature data bases from each program and could cause conflicts.
On top of that you are also running 10bit's security program, i am guessing that you are referring to 10 bit anti malware program.

10 bit anti malware program is clouded in suspicion and its origin is China, now a know there are a lot of genuine programs from China but 10 bit anti malware has been questioned.
It started life as 10 bit 360 and took the market by suprise, it had a brilliant fast scanning engine and seemed to be very accurate with low false positives, too accurate for a new boy and it drew attention from Malwarebytes.
They looked at 10 bits signature database and found many had identical descriptions of types of Malware that Malwarebytes had found previously, they set a trap in a new signature that was harmless and not made available to any other companies and it flagged a certain message up to prove that the code was stolen.
No other companies detected the signature except,, you guessed it, 10 bit 360 and the hidden message appeared which said "stop stealing our software", so it was clear that 10 bit were stealing Malwarebytes signatures.

10 bit strongly denied the claims yet failed to provide any proof to defend themselves.
360's popularity dropped as a result and their development team split up, one half went on to develop 10 bits new anti malware program and the other half setup Anvi Smart Defender.
360's reputation was damaged so bad that it was killed and rebranded 10bit Malware Defender which isn't half as good as 360 was.
Anvi Smart Defender didn't fair any better with awful detection and removal..
360 however made a comeback as a clone and renamed Advanced Spyware Remover, its also pretty terrible..

I actually tested Anvi Smart Defender for a few months and apart from it being terrible in detection and false positives, there was also confusion at their origin.
At first it was California then Canada and now China, they went to great effort to conceal their origin.
I emailed them asking if they were linked to 10bit, they said no and even went as far as to say that 10 bit were a malicious company.
Then i saw on their own forum a thread where they admit they were former programers for 10 bit 360.

They also have teams who post reviews on Freeware sites, those reviews are never negative with sometimes broken English..
I posted a review on Cnet that wasn't that bad, one day later there were 6 reviews countering everything i said.
They totally miss the point that new programs take time to develop and the public accept that its in development, this means low detection and false positives are gonna happen and people will forgive this..
Anvi Smart Defender was 5 mins in beta before a RC was introduced, it was the fastest developed beta in history..

A would honestly say avoid 10 bit security programs for now, i went as far to remove all 10bit software from my pc but its your choice..

you may call it whatever you like , but its i for ian and o for orange bit dot com (iobit.com) and is always seen as iobit like I said in my reply, and it works ok as far as I am concerned and I have no problems using my recommendations on numerous computers

iobit malware fighter is is current name (or 10 bit malware fighter if YOU prefer)

as you said, its MY choice and I was only giving my opinion to anyone that cares to follow it, not looking for a history lesson but good info so thanks anyway

I will stick with what I know and use, thank you