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I recommend going by test results and by the features that interest you most.

Kaspersky, BTW, has the best scores (See here: https://bestantivirus.reviews/tools/test-results-calculator) but Bitdefender and Avira are also great according to these tests, and Bitdefender is my choice, personally.


Kaspersky just worries me because of the Russian connections https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecu...

It's sort of like Cloudflare protecting against DDoS attacks while also protecting booters.


Thanks for the feedback!

These are not our tests, these are tests performed by av-test, virusbulletin, etc.

Currently there are only a few tests for ClamAV, all done by AV-Test during 2015-2016 and all are for MacOS.

When ClamAV goes through a few more tests, it will be included in our results tool as well. (Here: https://bestantivirus.reviews/tools/test-results-calculator)

If you're interested in the ClamAV test results for MacOS, here are the original tests performed by AV-Test:

https://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/mac-os-x-un...

https://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/more-securi...

https://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/12-security...

The average scores based on these tests are:

Average: 87.9%

>Protection: 72.6%

>Performance Impact: 92.8%

>False Alerts: 98.3%

But once again, these are for MacOS, not for Linux users among whom it's extremely popular.


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