Definitive Best Antivirus 2007

[kinetix63 Veteran]

A fresh "Best Antivirus" poll for 2007. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Due to limitations of IPB - this will be seen as 2 polls. Select the Antivirus program you wish to vote for, and choose N/A in the other poll.

Happy voting!

Poll choices are links to the software pages.

Edited January 17, 2007 by Joel

[Shreya]

Right now am using Norton AntiVirus 2007, best.

[primexx]

Kaspersky and NOD32 are both great. Norton shouldn't be on the list.

[soldier1st]

norton is horrible and very bloated and hard to remove.nod32 is best.

[THE BAT]

for me NOD32 is the best

[bobbytomorow]

Never tried NOD32 out, but am curious to. I use AVG, its free, uses minimal resources, updates quickly and is easy to disable.

[cork1958]

Looks like AOL stopped distributing Active Virus Shield. Definition updates are still being provided ... for now.

Nope, can't get updates anymore either and that is what I was searching for here. :(

[BatGnat]

I've been using kaspersky for years, and had to switch to nod32 because I always got BSOD's and I really must say Kaspersky is WAY better!!!

It is WAY better, but causes BSOD's. I run Nod32, NEVER had a problem.

[L815]

Kaspersky 7 is my choice. I've had no problems and has detected everything so far. As far as footprint, it runs at 2-3k on idle and it will go to 15k when scanning something with heuristics on then decreases back to 2-3k. Far better than nod32's constant 20k on mine.

[soldier1st]

thats a good thing with kaspersky,it reduces it's resource usage till it does something then lowers it again.

[intoksicated]

nod 32 for me....

[NEVER85]

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 for me. Managed to get the 180-day free trial and it's been working great for me on Vista Ultimate x86.

[El CobaiN]

Well I try NOD32 and its light but no the best on detection (I update it everyday..)

Kaspersky is good but expensive,Symantec sucks,I prefer personally McAffe products!

[BlueFlame]

Kaspersky Internet Security 7.

[matty13]

Whats best free av out their, anyone recommend me any?

[apul]

Will say AntiVir Personal or AOL Active Virus Shield (no longer available!?).

[kazuyette]

well I'm using AVG and I'm happy with it .

[markwolfe Veteran]

Did the pinned thread not meet your needs?

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=526708

[X@vier]

well I'm using AVG and I'm happy with it .

+1 (Y)

~X

[obiwong]

lol oh man

i totally thought this thread was about something else

hahahaha

gotta get my head out of the gutter

[Leoboy]

Avast!

[John S. Veteran]

threads merged

[punktematrix]

I don't use AV software because I'm hardcore.

[soldier1st]

thats a bad idea,use avg for free,nod32 for payware.

[Sethos]

Went from NOD32 to Kaspersky, somehow NOD didn't do it for me.

[L815]

Nod32 I used until a year or two back it let slip a virus which kaspersky later caught. Kaspersky 7 is a lot more lightweight than previous versions, and on par with nod32's memory usage. Although I do notice that browsing is slowed down a bit because of the scanning.

Kasperskys web scanning also gave me problems with flash and Maxthon 2.0. I don't know if that's still the case.

I tried the new Nod32 beta with it's new look, but it uses around 26-30k memory -_-, and when I donwload something it freezes my pc or the download until it's done doing its thing. But it is only beta.

I used the free 3month full version of Antivir internet security but I only really needed the virus scanning and antispyware but it seemed to also alter my pcs response time (not by much I guess same as kaspersky). I like it but I would just stick with the free version.

I'm trying avast pro again and it seems to be running flawlessly. I prefer it over avg because avg had always let something by in the past. Avast also doesn't use much memory anyway compared to avg, and avast just seems more thourough.

In order

Free:

Antivir

Avast

Avg

Paid:

Kapsersky

Nod32