What Antivirus do you use?

Unity Engine
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Hi all!
So, I was using McAfee Internet security for my antivirus and it is a pain!
I get the System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path “C:\projectFolder\Temp\Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.dll.mdb” is denied. ALL THE TIME. I’ve added it to the real time scanning exception list but it still comes up every once and a while and I have to restart my entire project, which gets to be a real pain. I know Antivirus and Unity haven’t had a great relationship, but what do you use? My McAfee has expired and I am looking for an Antivirus that’ll work well with Unity.

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Microsoft Security Essentials is free, lightweight and doesn’t have bloatware.

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Ok, actually called Windows Defender in Windows 8/8.1/10
I was looking more for a fully fledged Antivirus. After looking around it seems that although windows defender does a good job, it won’t cover, and is only real good if the user is doing simple internet browsing etc. PCMag even says that “Windows Defender tries to protect your Windows 8 or 8.1 installation if you don’t have third-party antivirus installed. Testing reveals that you’ll be much, much better off installing almost any other free antivirus utility.”

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Avast AV free works well with Unity for me.

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Yes, it seems it has fallen out from favor recently http://www.howtogeek.com/173291/goodbye-microsoft-security-essentials-microsoft-now-recommends-you-use-a-third-party-antivirus/
I would probably continue to use it anyway, mainly because antivirus is never the main defense against viruses, just an extra safety net, and you don’t want to be suffocated by it.

The only reliable defense against viruses is your behavior. And if you have to run something fishy, you’ll run it through something like Malwarebytes first, which also catches trojans, that most active protection AV software does badly anyway. And if you absolutely have to run something questionable you use Sandboxie, which will run it in VM.

Avast is pretty good, I used it for a while on all of my PCs, it was a bit of a resource hog, noticeable on my older Laptop. It has some unnecessary bloatware features, but they can be turned off. Every year it forces you to renew your free license in most annoying way possible, otherwise it’s fine.

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Awesome! Thanks everybody! Avast free does look like it’ll do a good job! I saw this page as well: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2050339/how-to-build-the-ultimate-pc-security-suite-for-free.html and will be sure to use some of the programs mentioned there for the things that Avast! Free doesn’t cover.

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I’ve been using Comodo free antivirus for the last 4 years. It’s a great AV for virus removal

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Edit: Reply to removed post.

I wouldn’t trust such sponsored reviews of software.
Post even smells to me to be honest as sponsoring.
They tend to be very biased and omit good alternatives.
Sure 4 years old necro needed …

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Windows Defender and a careful approach works for me

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This ^^^

Worms are a non-issue ever since OS’s started shipping with software firewalls, and people started connecting to the Internet behind NAT routers. If you don’t understand not to open random email attachments in current year, you’re probably not smart enough to develop a video game. After that just keep your web browser away from the dark side of the Internet. With all that, you really don’t actually need anti-virus software anymore like you did 20 years ago.

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