Best antiviruses?

[Decepticon]

there are ways to get around requesting human authentication for processes. Zero days / exploits, malvertising, port exploitation, etc
it's not typically(key word) present on a machine that is kept 100% up-to-date, but it is always possible that even something legitimate you installed may not be correctly secured and may accidentally backdoor your system because of legacy code or bad practices.

didn't an update for street fighter v by capcom forget up so bad a program it used actually installed a rootkit on your computer?

actually i answered my own question https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/

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[Timestamp]

i personally use malwarebytes.org smh idk why you had that problem

you could also get avast, MSE is decent too

[Swollow]

there are ways to get around requesting human authentication for processes. Zero days / exploits, malvertising, port exploitation, etc
it's not typically(key word) present on a machine that is kept 100% up-to-date, but it is always possible that even something legitimate you installed may not be correctly secured and may accidentally backdoor your system because of legacy code or bad practices.

anti virus software will not protect you from good zero day exploits

[AutoBahn]

anti virus software will not protect you from good zero day exploits

Nothing can really be done about that one anyway. Some AV software does push out hotfixes for some cases of zero days if they have heuristics that can detect it though, as long as it's OS-level and not related to bios or hardware/firmware directly

[RedGajin]

do not JUST use malware bytes, good practice is to have both malwarebytes and a decent av software. AVG, avast, bitdefender, ect

[LeetZero]

do not JUST use malware bytes, good practice is to have both malwarebytes and a decent av software. AVG, avast, bitdefender, ect

Unless you decide to buy Malwarebytes Pro which is also pretty good.

[Hawt]

i use common sense 2017 and mbam in case i do some gay stuff

[HypnoT]

If you're not an idiot you can get by with none. If other people use your computer or you regularly download risky stuff then maybe Webroot antivirus

Either way it's a good idea to install Glasswire

[Kyuande]

I use Windows Defender (lol) and Malwarebytes

[pefu19]

That only works if you decide to never go on the internet. There's stuff on perfectly legit websites that the website owners don't have control over that can give you viruses. I've not been on any sketchy sites and Avast picked something up just a while ago on the forums. Don't even know what it was, just something about an image. Might've been another site in the background but again, I wasn't on a sketchy site.

I use avast and would like to switch though

do you even know how a virus works

[Potatoh]

weebrot

[The Murderous Cop]

i use avast free antivirus and it's alright, you just have to get used to it sometimes trying to get you to upgrade (unless you want to)

back in the day i used to use AVG but i have no idea if it's still garbage nowadays

[Super Suit 12]

do you even know how a virus works

not in detail but I do know that effective viruses don't ever need user approval
avast picked up some !#@$ with a .jpg on the forums so something bad was going on or could have been going on according to avast
also, user approval doesn't mean saying "ok yes virus-ify my computer I specifically want viruses"

[cooolguy32]

I use Windows Defender (lol) and Malwarebytes