This question doesn’t have the same answer for everyone or business. The first question to ask is, do you need an Anti-Virus for personal computer or business. The second question is, do you want a free version, or you don’t mind paying. Obviously for business, you need to pay and based on your company’s needs you should evaluate what is the best available AV/EDR.
Anti-Virus for personal use
When it comes to protection budget is always a question as some people don’t want/afford to pay certain amount per month/year.
Free Anti-Viruses: the list below might change by the time as AVs companies might change their policies. There is no reason behind ordering the AVs list as below. Keep it in mind you always need to evaluate and study the AVs protection then install it.
When it comes to the point that you don’t mind paying monthly/annually then there are plenty AVs software out. We will list some of most known of them. Also, most of the free AVs listed above have a paid option so I am not going to list it below.
EDR/Antivirus for business
Nowadays businesses would go with EDR solutions which is somehow equivalent of personal AV. For business select an EDR is not as easy as select an AV for personal use. We should consider a lot of aspects of our organization such as:
- For how many devices you need it?
- All they can be connected to Internet or some of them are offline and need a repository
- Are your devices all the time online or sometimes they are offline for more than a month
- Do you have an IT developers’ team?
- How does the solution detect threats?
- What technologies and techniques are used for detection?
- How does the solution integrate with prevention?
Note: They are a lot of other questions which you need to consider evaluating an EDR solution to fine the best available EDR for your business.