Best antivirus for 2017

[rul3s]

As we already know, every year antivirus manufacturers release their new versions, the idea of this topic is to debate which antivirus you would choose for this 2017 depending on the case. I, after looking a little, I stay with:

Best free: Avast Free
Best free and low resources: Panda Free
Best paid: NOD32

On the other hand, it is worth noting that the new version of MalwareBytes includes on-site protection against ransomware.

Although I, personally, continue to use Windows Defender, which comes included in Windows 10, I know it is not the best, but for someone who is "careful", I think it is enough.

And you? What do you use for your machines and what do you use for the most clueless?

[Nemo]

@Rules I personally use Avast free on my computer and I don't notice it slowing down the computer and sometimes it has alerted me of threats when accessing a download page.

I agree with you that if you are a cautious and prudent user, Windows Defender is more than enough. It is no longer the rubbish it used to be.

On the other hand, the version of Malwarebytes you mention is paid and the free trial only lasts 14 days. After that, real-time protection is turned off and it goes into on-demand scan mode, just like the antimalware used to work until now. This is important because it would not be actively protecting you while browsing or installing programs.

[whoololon]

I have been using Avast for three years, they have not neglected the product and I continue to have a great experience with it.
When I get paranoid, I run MalwareBytes and that's it (always a negative result); so I will continue with that tandem. :fingers_crossed_tone3:

[krampak]

I use Windows Essentials on all my machines (now Defender on Windows 10) and I have had very few incidents. In companies, we have McAfee ePO set up to have everything centralized on a server.

[rul3s]

@krampak said in Best antivirus for 2017:

I use Windows Essentials on all my machines (now Defender on Windows 10) and I've had very few incidents. In companies we have McAfee's ePO set up to have everything centralized on a server.

Someone told me the same thing recently... that in large companies they set up McAfee for administration issues and such but... has it stopped being the cancer it was before? I mean, because the few interactions I've had with McAfee always ended disastrously.

[palotes]

I use ClamAV but the truth is that it has only been triggered a few times and it has been on pendrives with malicious executables for Windows.

[krampak]

@Rules said in Best antivirus for this 2017:

@krampak said in Best antivirus for this 2017:

I use Windows Essentials on all my machines (now Defender on Windows 10) and I've had very few incidents. In companies we have McAfee's ePO set up to have everything centralized on a server.

Someone told me the same thing recently.... that in large companies they set up McAfee for administration issues and such but.... has it stopped being the cancer it was before? Well, because the few interactions I've had with McAfee always ended disastrously.

Well, since we only implement Thread Prevention, the incidents are minimal, it's a different story if you start playing with the Firewall, but we handle that at the hardware level, not with the antivirus. What's really convenient about ePO is the fact that you can install the antivirus on all the machines in the domain at once, keep them updated, receive weekly reports of the incidents detected throughout the network, etc...

[hAyO]

For years I have been using Avast Free, and I have had no problems with it on all my computers, and on those that I repair/update, I check.

[Obione]

I started with Avast, then switched to AVG and have been back to Avast for a while now because of the startup scan. Very few incidents here too. Windols doesn't seem as vulnerable as it was a few years ago.