Ask HN: Best Antivirus/Internetsecurity for Windows

[rrhkcrnws]

I'd like to know what antivirus/internet security (i.e. Kaspersky, GDATA, Avira, etc.) is the safest today?

I was using the free version from Avira Antivirus but I'm not satisfied anymore and I'm thinking about switching to Kaspersky.

Is it safe to say, that Kaspersky is the safest solution or are there better Tools to protect my windows machine?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[brudgers]

Windows security essentials from Microsoft. It's free, kept up to date. and has no interest in telling me what it is doing so I will buy it again.

Commercial antivirus has become mostly a big tracking cookie that comes with a yearly fee and pop up advertising. Microsoft security essentials has a value model of aligned interests: Users don't want carp on users' computers and neither do the users themselves.

[rrhkcrnws → brudgers]

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look at it :)

[duncan_bayne]

I've used the following tools to protect several of my Windows machines from malware:

* http://www.linuxmint.com/

* https://www.freebsd.org/

;)

[rrhkcrnws → duncan_bayne]

That would be the safest solution, of course ;) but I have a windows machine and I can't switch to another OS.

In the media, Kaspersky seems to be always up-to-date and they seem to provide a good solution. Is it just PR or do they really offer a good solution (I'm thinking about the Internet Security Suite and not just the Antivirus).

[duncan_bayne → rrhkcrnws]

Actually, you might be able to. E.g. create a Linux VM and use that for Internet banking, etc.