Your favourite Antivirus?

[Si Veteran]

Please use this thread as a reference for this topic, as time goes on and availabilty changes, the poll will be updated.

[Orange]

I'm gonna go for a change in 2006. I've been using Norton Antivirus since 2000 but wanna know what i should go for... Havent had much experience with other antivirus programs :(

[Abystar]

I'm using McAfee Virus Scan :cool:

[mr_demilord]

OTHER: Linux :p

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:ninja:

See my sig

[Kmurray]

People you should try NOD32 believe me its a very good antivirus, there are alot of people with different opinions obviously but i have tried Norton Mcafee Tren Micro and found NOD32 the best low on resources and high detection rate, Mcafee and norton are not too bad but they are what i class as bloatware and trend micro aint far off it!

[Demodave]

I will be re-formatting my XP sp2 box soon. I'm using NIS 2005 right now. If I were to change, which of the three would you suggest?

1. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite

2. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (and use the Windows firewall)

3. NOD32

Thoughts?

[Maligogo]

Kaspersky AV Personal 5 and Windows Firewall/ZA Free/Sygate PF.

Just my 2 cents

[PureEdit]

OS X works pretty well for me.

[Jonnif]

I have use AntiVir now for quite long time and allways worked great !

[HoochieMamma]

I will be re-formatting my XP sp2 box soon.  I'm using NIS 2005 right now.  If I were to change, which of the three would you suggest?

1. Kaspersky Personal Security Suite

2. Kaspersky Anti-Virus Personal 5.0 (and use the Windows firewall)

3. NOD32

Thoughts?

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Go for 2 and use a dedicated firewall.

[deuz]

avg....its free (Y)

[aclarke_31]

I tend to use Sophos Antivirus. Its never ever let me down.

[jimbo12141]

i liked AVG, but it was annoying when it suddenly shouted at you "VIRUS DETECTED",

NOD 32 now :)

[insanekiwi]

i used antivir/free-av for a while. but avg is better, has smaller updates ;) love it (Y)

[Vortech]

I'd have to go with AVG. It doesn't seem to bog down my computer until it's slower than heck. It's also caught viruses the second they got on my computer.

[asap05]

I use to only use Norton, but now my favorite is NOD32. Alot faster and better then Norton, imo.

[SnowRanger13]

None for me, don't run into many virus that atack XP PRO X64 yet.. Don't even think any antivirus programs officaly support X64

[+seb5150 Subscriber²]

AVG without a doubt.

[+orgitnized Subscriber¹]

None for me, don't run into many virus that atack XP PRO X64 yet.. Don't even think any antivirus programs officaly support X64

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NOD32 supports it. ;)

[sundayx Veteran]

mmm i tried nod32, a bit too complicated for me. im used to how norton is run, very simple settings. thus i went back. its more load, but if its good then i cant switch over

[omgpils]

None for me, don't run into many virus that atack XP PRO X64 yet.. Don't even think any antivirus programs officaly support X64

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afaik, AVG, avast and symantec are the only AV companies that offer support for windows 64 atm. but im sure more will come in the following 6-12 months until windows vista is released. think both mcafee and f-secure are soon to release support for 64 also.

and more ontopic, im currently using f-secure client security 6.0 that offer me complete protection againt all kinds of malware.

[Patrick_]

I prefer BitDefender over all, because it has the highest detection rate out of all free AV's (according to virus.gr), it has a free Linux version, also, and is DARN fast at scanning. It's probably the best scanner for Linux... I compared it to KAV, AntiVir, F-Prot, Mcafee linux versions, BitDefender found the most viruses (out of about my 800 or so collected), and it's the fastest by far, also.

Now, AVG is good, and has a lower system resource overhead, but the detection rate sucks (~50%).

[brianhanson37]

I use McAffe Anti-Virus. I think it works quite well. Never will I switch back to Norton. The McAffe setup is much nicer than Norton.

[joe_banana]

i use bitdefender before but changed to ca's ez antivirus since it expired. :)

it's nice n light.. :) lighter than avg imho.

antivir pe is also nice n lighter even lighter on resiurces. if you can live with big n slow updates.. :p but all in all it's a nice strong AV.

[SithToast]

As much as I like the name Avast! (Pirates! ARRRR), I use Windows OneCare. It's pretty cool. Low memory footprints for the win!

[chrisgeleven]

SAV10 for me. Never has failed me, pretty good with resources, and gets updates often.

I am of course the paranoid one, so once a month I will use a couple online scanners from various AV companies to make sure SAV isn't missing anything.