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Avast is Czech, as is its subsidiary AVG, Avira is German, BitDefender is Romanian, ESET is Slovak, F-Secure is Finnish and Panda Security is Spanish. Sophos is British, so it is probably more likely to be tampered with.

OK, they're ALL out to get you. If you didn't pay for it, you're the product. I fear my local government more than a far-away one. I'm a minnow, no some plankton living in the social/financial sea. It's only metadata. If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. Ever uploaded something to VirusTotal/Google/MS/Amazon? If it's unencrypted in the cloud, it's probably now on someone's ELSE's cloud too. If encrypted, it's still fair game. KAV have good reviews. So I'll just leave this here and get my coat,

OVERVIEW
https://www.pcworld.com/articl...
https://www.av-test.org/en/ant...
http://chart.av-comparatives.o...

Free
https://usa.kaspersky.com/free...
https://www.bitdefender.com/su...
https://www.malwarebytes.com/m...
https://www.avira.com/en/free-...
https://home.sophos.com/
https://www.pandasecurity.com/...

Just PICK one just as long as it's not the default MS Defender. They couldn't stop it from getting in to start with, what makes you think their AV is going to do better?

I suspect kids coming out of academia w/ BIG debt finding good jobs to pay the loan debt down are offshored - so it's "go to jail" either way for them if they DON'T pay down that debt once the clock starts ticking FOR SURE or creating malware instead to pay it down.

Regarding the latter - They're taking a chance of NOT getting caught, & use those skills in CS to start making BIG MONEY ripping others off.

Why?

LESS CHANCE OF IMMEDIATE JAILTIME FOR UNPAID DEBT & yes, a chance to pay it down, + perhaps even PROFIT by it...

I.E.-> Desperation creates necessity creates invention (in this case, bad ones).

* Imo, our "fearless leader politicians", puppets of BIG MONEY, have caused it along with the 1% legalized craptable called the stock market SCREAMING "make me 'MoAr'" to publicly traded companies! Mgt., in fear of their jobs, responds the easiest way controlling the easiest overhead to control - payrolls.

WHAT BACKS WHAT I SUSPECT EVEN MORE?

This (almost 30% of all known malware EVER appeared in 2015) http://www.pandasecurity.com/m... & THAT takes even more malware makers to appear to create THAT large of a 'malware explosion' - the answer to 99/100 question = money & what it will drive you to (not just when it becomes 'the HOLY dollar' for the greedy, but also the desperate).

APK

P.S.=> So, anyone wondering WHY I built my free hosts file program to protect others against threats online? Don't! THIS is why... apk

I've found only one free antivirus where the nag screens can be turned off and stay off. Panda has treated me right so far and if things keep going this way I'm going to buy the premium version just to support the company. It's efficient, effective, and -- most importantly -- silent.

That's sure to kill the current worldwide trend in developing countries, where carriers (specially on pre-paid plans) give "free whatsapp and push notifications from fb, tw, etc"

Also, given whatsapp's security track record it should raise some eyebrows.

Offtopic: I actually went and RFTA (Hello! I'm new here) and found the picture in it rather interesting.

I'm not even going to bother linking all of these...

http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-linux.aspx
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/serverprotect-for-linux/
http://www.kaspersky.com/linux
http://www.eset.eu/products/nod32-for-linux
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxFileserver.aspx http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxSambaServer.aspx
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforMailServers.aspx
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition
http://www.avast.com/linux-unix-edition
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/endpoint/endpoint-security-and-data-protection/components/anti-virus-protection/linux.aspx?utm_source=Non-campaign&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_campaign=NA-AW-Linux
http://www.ca.com/us/Support/gsa/Virus-Info/Virus-Signature-Updates/eTrust-Antivirus-7x-for-UNIX-and-Linux.aspx
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/desktopsecure/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/commandline/
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf
http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/

I'm not even going to bother linking all of these...

http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-linux.aspx
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/serverprotect-for-linux/
http://www.kaspersky.com/linux
http://www.eset.eu/products/nod32-for-linux
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxFileserver.aspx http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxSambaServer.aspx
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforMailServers.aspx
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition
http://www.avast.com/linux-unix-edition
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/endpoint/endpoint-security-and-data-protection/components/anti-virus-protection/linux.aspx?utm_source=Non-campaign&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_campaign=NA-AW-Linux
http://www.ca.com/us/Support/gsa/Virus-Info/Virus-Signature-Updates/eTrust-Antivirus-7x-for-UNIX-and-Linux.aspx
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/desktopsecure/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/commandline/
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf
http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/

I'm not even going to bother linking all of these...

http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-linux.aspx
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/serverprotect-for-linux/
http://www.kaspersky.com/linux
http://www.eset.eu/products/nod32-for-linux
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxFileserver.aspx http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxSambaServer.aspx
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforMailServers.aspx
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition
http://www.avast.com/linux-unix-edition
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/endpoint/endpoint-security-and-data-protection/components/anti-virus-protection/linux.aspx?utm_source=Non-campaign&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_campaign=NA-AW-Linux
http://www.ca.com/us/Support/gsa/Virus-Info/Virus-Signature-Updates/eTrust-Antivirus-7x-for-UNIX-and-Linux.aspx
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/desktopsecure/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/commandline/
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf
http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/

Antiviruses catch only a declining percentage of malware, so you can't rely on them - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#Effectiveness which shows that even in 2007 the average percentage caught was about 50%. Various independent tests confirm this, particularly for zero-day viruses (i.e. you must rely on heuristics in the AV product, not signatures). In 2007, 23% of infected PCs had up to date antivirus: http://www.pandasecurity.com/infected_or_not/ and http://www.pandasecurity.com/infected_or_not/panda_security_research/

Even when there is coverage for a specific virus/trojan, highly polymorphic ones are often not caught - for example the Zeus banking trojan, which steals from bank accounts while hiding the illicit transactions and resulting balance from the user, is missed in 77% of cases - http://www.darkreading.com/security/article/220000718/index.html

Antiviruses catch only a declining percentage of malware, so you can't rely on them - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antivirus_software#Effectiveness which shows that even in 2007 the average percentage caught was about 50%. Various independent tests confirm this, particularly for zero-day viruses (i.e. you must rely on heuristics in the AV product, not signatures). In 2007, 23% of infected PCs had up to date antivirus: http://www.pandasecurity.com/infected_or_not/ and http://www.pandasecurity.com/infected_or_not/panda_security_research/

Even when there is coverage for a specific virus/trojan, highly polymorphic ones are often not caught - for example the Zeus banking trojan, which steals from bank accounts while hiding the illicit transactions and resulting balance from the user, is missed in 77% of cases - http://www.darkreading.com/security/article/220000718/index.html

This only happened after Aiplex Software was contracted to DDoS attack file sharing web sites:

http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/an-interview-with-anonymous/

...not having a minimal level of antivirus/firewall software is a sure way to join a botnet lately...

Even having one isn't nearly as much protection as most of us would like to believe. A 2007 research study by Panda Labs found that about 23% of infected machines had active and up-to-date AV software.

My own tests of AV software were less than encouraging and made the 23% quite believable. The better software either had more than a few false positives (Avira), or can be a PITA for non-techie users, and even techie users, (Comodo).

http://www.avast.com/fr-fr/distributed-network-manager

http://www.pandasecurity.com/usa/enterprise/solutions/adminsecure/

because all antivirus software is made by people who are governed by the laws of the united states...

They didn't test it on Panda which is a much bigger name than half of those 16 they tested.

We provide technical support to a number of clients... Most of them in the 20-30 workstation range... Some with more, some with less. And what we typically sell them is Panda.

Obviously it isn't perfect. Even the best antivirus is only going to catch what it knows about most of the time. Sandboxing and heuristics and whatnot only go so far in protecting you from new stuff. And viruses learn how to disable your protection or hide or whatever. So I'm not going to tell you that Panda will catch everything, every time.

But Panda has one hell of an administration console. You can manage absolutely everything from one central location. I've worked with Symmantec's, Kasperskys, and BitDefender's administration consoles... They've got nothing on Panda.

You can roll out antivirus protection to an entire network with just a couple clicks of the mouse. Can quickly see which computers are up-to-date and functioning, and which ones need to be looked at. Viruses are reported back to the administration server. You can configure it to send you email alerts. You can configure all of its assorted settings from one place. Much, much better than any of the competing products I've used.

Again, it isn't perfect. But I'll tell you we get fewer calls from the folks running Panda than those running Kaspersky or Symmantec.

The biggest issue I have is that it doesn't do anything against those rogue anti-malware scanners - things like "Super AntiSpyware 2009" and their ilk. Doesn't detect them, doesn't disinfect them, nothing. From what I've seen the competition (Symmantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, NOD32) don't do much either. Any time we have one of those beasties crop up we're having to grab some tools specifically designed for dealing with the rogue anti-malware crap. Does anyone know of a good centrally-managed solution that actually protects/prevents/disinfects those rogue anti-malware scanners?

Have you ever tried Panda? http://www.pandasecurity.com/ It's got that said whitelist (internal though). Anyways, I dunno why the hell it's not in the comparative, Panda is no.4 in sales worldwide (after Symantec, Karspersky & McAfee).

• Make the website launching any JavaScript event appear in the foreground
• Make every dialog box give security information about the website it's from, if the website it's from is not the currently displayed tab.
• Suspend various types of JavaScript until the tab is foremost again, but display a 'requires your attention' icon (I call shotgun on a panda for this)