Recommended Anti-Virus

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Rankings are based on SimeonOnSecurity’s professional opinion and basic testing against malicious samples provided by VirusTotal. These recommendations do not take into account vendors privacy policies or related practices and only cover the AV capabilities, detection, user experience, and performance.

Notes:

• Generally speaking, AV is not required on Linux or MacOS.
• It is not recommended to use any VPN or password manager thay may be provided with the AV suite.
  • Please see our recommendations for VPN providers here.

Ordered Top-Down, Best to Worst, by category.

Home Use: #

Windows: #

Paid: #

• Bitdefender - INTERNET SECURITY
• Avira - Antivirus Pro
• Avast Premium Security

Free: #

• Bitdefender - Antivirus Free Edition
• Avira - Free Antivirus for Windows
• Avast - Free Antivirus
• Microsoft - Windows Defender
  • Recommended: SimeonOnSecurity - Windows Defender Hardening

Linux: #

Paid: #

• ESET NOD32 ANTIVIRUS FOR LINUX DESKTOP

Free: #

• ClamAV

MacOS: #

Paid: #

• Avira - Antivirus Pro
• Avast Premium Security

Free: #

• Avira - Free Antivirus for Mac
• Avast - Free Antivirus

Business Use: #

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