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Microsoft Defender is built right in, blazing fast, doesn’t annoy you, and does its job cleaning old-school viruses.

Use the Built-in Microsoft Defender for traditional antivirus – The criminals have moved on from regular viruses to focus on Ransomware, zero-day attacks, and even worse malware that traditional antivirus just can’t handle.

Historically, we’ve recommended a combination of Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes. Since we know that tons of people will just scroll down and skim, here is our TL DR recommendation for how to keep your system secure: It may lack polish and precision of major products but roughly as good at actually finding and removing malware.So What’s the Best Antivirus? Please Don’t Make Me Read All This Very solid scanner that works without installation and is free for personal use. Not critical for main function, but for portable it makes more sense to cleanup than produce leftovers. It is a sign that app relies less on large database of precise samples (like all major antivirus solutions) and more on detecting generic patches of possibly malicious code.Īlso app is far from completely portable – it leaves behind program itself in temporary folder and numerous files in user’s profile. HFS and my custom Appnews software gets flagged every single time. Well, SAS does that annoyingly consistently.

It is common for AutoIt and some Delphi apps to be mis-detected as malware. Scanner doesn’t have too many working buttons (a lot of them pop up offer to upgrade to paid version) but there is enough left for nice control of scan process and self-update (uncommon among freebies in this niche). This alone is enough for serious attention. Strong featuresĪpp has totally saved the day once by picking fresh and obscure virus that rest of my malware toolkit managed to miss. It can also be manually unpacked (with 7-Zip for example) and used from any folder. It is simple self-extracting archive that unpacks to temporary folder and launches app from there. Really there is nothing online or cloud about it (I’ve seen some reviews confused by that word). It is not an antivirus (read it – not intended for fighting complex persistent infections), but has more broad range of malware it looks for (up to tracking cookies).įor some reason portable version got branded as Online.

SAS is quite generic in its purpose – it searches system for malicious code and cleans it up. Later in the year he notified me that app now has portable version and my main gripe with this malware scanner and cleaner is thus cleared. :) Rick had posted about SAS earlier this year and since my comment there I got to exchange emails with Mike Duncan, who manages app’s marketing (among other things). App got on my radar while back and refused to get off it, ignoring my lukewarm reaction.