Which anti-virus do you use and why?

i've been using PC Tool Antivirus (http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/) with Ashampoo Firewall-Free (http://www.ashampoo.com)

both of these run without conflict and compliment each other.

they are pretty good on resources, auto updates, and are not difficult to control, through the settings of rules.

(i did not have much luck with pc tools firewall software which sometimes returned errors on closing windows xp.)

i use the stock firewall and Avast Home (Which is FREE)

I used to use AVG Free but at one point in time there was an update and it shut down on multiple PC's untill the update was applied manually.

That coupled with any non resident spyware scanners like spybot and your pretty much golden.

I'm a fan of McAfee, I used to use Norton but it wouldn't catch everything. I had some spyware that I couldn't get rid of - I uninstalled Norton and did a free trial with McAfee and sure enough McAfee took care of it. That was enough for me to make the decision to change.

Morro soon but right now avast!

Last edited by artfuldodga (2009-06-16 18:53:40)

The best anti virus program, according to all the test sites, is currently NOD32 by Eset. The best free anti virus, again according to several test sites, is AntiVir from Avira.

Boofo wrote:

I dumped NOD32 and went with Norton Internet Security 2009. Very low resource useage and the AV is top-notch and even beat NOD32 this year.

I use spyware Doctor. It has detected everything that has come my way. I set it to do a full scan while i sleep. Although not free, well worth the money. You can use it on up to 3 computers.

Malwarebytes... its free, and Ive NEVER had something pop up that it didnt catch. Easy to use, super fast scanning, and did I mention its FREE?

Right now I am using norton 9 and It is the best one I have found yet.

It captures all the viruses in the system and that is why I love to use it.