I'd recommend you Comodo Internet Security
Why ? Because it's free and fully featured !!
Also its the the BEST on the market when it comes to Proactive security and virus Prevention!
See for yourself..
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http://www.matousec.com/projects/proact ... esults.php (you have to scroll down a bit to see the results)
Basically what their product is doing is preventing any virus trojan bot you name it to take root in your system in the first place!
There are thousands of new viruses with new signatures coming out everyday. And thats a big problem because most of the Av's or Security suits rely heavily on those signatures when catching malicious programms! And therein lies the issue because It's impossible for them to get all the signatures they need to provide you wiht full security. They update their definition base only after some of their users got already infected by such malicious programms.
Comodo on the other hand has the best Proactive security system there is on the market relying on definition based prevention only as a second resort! See all those neat little features that are being integrated or have been integrated into other security suits over the last year like Autosandboxing.. Comodo invented it and has been using it for YEARS !! Needles to say that those features in other Suits are far from being perfect or even usable and secure!
What comodo basically does is it checks files that you launch against it's huge list of whitelisted and digitally signed and from them approved vendors. If the file or the company that signed is not on their approved list it get automatically sandboxed. But wait thats not all because it is actually a dual sandbox !! What happens is the file gets put into the sandbox and has its privileges dropped which limits them to only non threatening actions (such as every other programm should have them) at the same time that file gets uploaded to the comodo servers scanned in the cloud by various antivirus vendors and is even reverse engeneered to determine if the file is save or could cause harm to your computer in under 15 minutes! if the file is found to be safe it is automatically moved out of the sandbox the next time you use the application!! and trust me that feature is amazing! it catches everything! They are so sure that their programm if you leave it at the standart settings is sooo good when it comes to preventing infections that they give you a 500$ virus free guarantee if you upgrade to their pro version which is a ridiculous 10 bucks a year! plus you get unlimited life support for all the issues concerning your pc for free in the pro version which includes everything about your pc tuning it up settings wise and personal virus removal ontop of that if you already have an infected pc and stuff! But i would recommend using only the Free version since you know .. the only real diference is the life support and the virus free thingy .. so not really worht it.
I tried it on my system and never looked back ( was a huge kaspersky fan at that time ) but i tested both by running them against zero day malware and kaspersky completely got disabled und unistalled by the malware while by using comodo not one not a single piece of malware got through.
They feature a proactive security test on their site which you can use to test your AV or Security suit .. you will be amazed about how many things go undetected by your Av/suit .. its horrid! Also about three years ago it was Comodo who caught new ways of intercepting keyboard activity and blocked it succesfully they noticed all the other Av vendors about that vulnerability because they were so severe but most of them took month to actually implement them into their own systems..
they also just released their new version comodo Internet security 6 which looks awesome and has a lot of new features I can only recommend checking it out
Ohh yeah and one thing i forgot to mention when you take a look at the site withe the proactive security testing. It's worth taking a look inside the atached pdf files for more information about the testing because some AV producers just shamelessly adapted their programms to catch just the specific exe files that are being used during the test and then failed because they also always use another slightly modified version of the same exe file to see if the AV's are just acting upon signature or the actuall behaviour process!
I at least was very shocked to find out most Av vendors just try to cheat on those kind of tests..
Some tests on the internet rate AV's after their ability to actually remove viruses from an already infected system (means you have an infected system and then download and install some Av to get rid of it) well comodo is not that good at removing already installed viruses simply because they splitted that off into another programm of theirs which is called Comodo cleaning essentials which works like a charm but simply never got tested by those companys well it is now integrated in Comodo 6 so im really looking forward to the next series of testings to be done in 2013 i'm convinced it will do a wonderfull job!
IF you are just looking for a plain AV protection.. without proactive security (which i wouldn't recommend)
I'd recommend you using Emsisoft Antimalware It has the best definition based detection rate among all AV's and a very sophisticated very very good malicious site blocker also the best on the market which pretty much limits your susceptibility of getting infected in the first place!
I'd also never rely on an Av to remove Viruses from a system.. for malware removel i would recommend:
-Malwarebytes Antimalware
-Hitman Pro
-Emsisoft Emergency Kit 3.0 (formerly asquared) [Basically a portable version of the Emsisoft anti malware thingy with no real time protection just scanning and removing of viruses)
and if thats not enough you can always scan with superantispyware (same as Malwarebytes but sometimes finds something Malwarebytes doesn't and vice versa though i would recommend Malwarebytes over it in terms of usability and detection/removal but you know sometimes you just want to make sure)
all the above mentioned programms are free and function terrific in the free (not pro version)
if your system is ever going to get infected.. just backup your data and wipe the partition or harddrive and install a new clean system .. removing viruses that integrate into system processes my leave your system unstable after the removal process
well thats it I'm not working for comodo btw I'm just excited by their programm which i found to be the very best of all Security suits
I tried them all btw so that hymn of praise im singing about it is resting on extensive testing and personal experience
good day everybody