What Antivirus software do you guys prefere?

I just ran out of a subcription of CA Antivirus and that was alright, but I prefere Mc Afee but if i cba to buy it because it's expensive to buy for 4 computers. Therefore i get freebies e.g Spyboy Search and Destroy and Drive Sentry 3.1.2 Which is what i have at the moment and they work really good with each other and i have them on all the computers.

[alexandgruntz]

I use Avast. It's free, does the job and can be forgotten about. It can intercept malicious downloads, which itself is great.

I've only used the interface when changing settings though.

lol, Yeah, I like to know what I set the settings to when i load a programme it asks me so i know what i'm accepting to do and what i'm not so Drive sentry and Spybot S&D are helpful for that.

[naerey]

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Personally I don't use any antivirus although maybe I should start, since Mac viruses are starting to increase in volume ¬.¬
Otherwise I use Northon on my windows machines.

Yeah, Mcafee is my favourite but i don't live in america.... I live in UK and i hate Norton Antivirus its the worse integrated anti-virus software out there!! I was reading it in a computer mag my dad has.

[GG-Xtreme]

McAfee is a massive resource hog, besides having many problems and being a poor choice overall. AVG, Avast and Avira, all free AV's, are much better than McAfee. If (for some stupid reason) you refuse to install a free AV, Kapersky is one of the best AV's in the world, and I've heard that NOD32 is very good as well. The two best suites you can buy are ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and Norton 360 (it uses a totally redesigned AV engine that isn't a resource hog and is much more stable than the previous Norton horrors).

I Disagree, McAfee isn't a resource hog on my upstairs comps nor my laptops.... The Max RAM i've noticed it use is about 15k and thats while i was scanning. and I refuse to install AVG because i hate it. I don't like one bit of it, Avast and Avira i've never heard of till you two brought it up. However i have heard of NOD32 and never used it, ZoneAlarm isn't a good suite because ZoneAlarm blocks the internet on the newer versions till you do something to unblock it from doing it. I read it in this computer mag my dad had that and Norton 360 is a big pile of rubbish. It is not as integrated as Mc Afee, Drive Sentry or any other anti-virus software out there. It has been proven by technical experts and was released somewhere i think it was a website or a mag again i saw lol.

[dudzz]

Originally Posted by alexandgruntz

I use Avast. It's free, does the job and can be forgotten about. It can intercept malicious downloads, which itself is great.

I've only used the interface when changing settings though.

avast ftw

[firesteel]

Originally Posted by themasterrocker

What Antivirus software do you guys prefere?

Avira AntiVir Premium. IMHO, one of the best antivirus programs ever released. Light on resources, heavy on keeping the bad stuff out. There's also a free personal version available for download.

http://www.free-av.de/en/download/1/...antivirus.html

A brief review of several AV's and the respective performance of each with Windows XP SP2 is available here:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-B...ns-80796.shtml

[intertec]

Avast and Nod32 are the best. Can't go wrong with them! Norton is pathetic. Anyone who uses Norton please stop because you are destroying your computer!