Definitive Best Antivirus 2009

[Barney T. Administrators]

An updated "Best Antivirus" for 2009. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Happy Voting.

[White Cuban]

avira, thoose nag screens didn't even bother me enough to remove em, happen to me like once a day

[ZenPirate]

On-demand comparative February 2009 by av-comparatives

Avira has been and it is the best.

Yeah, that many false positives would give me a great sense of security.....

[+Warwagon MVC]

Thread Cleaned

If your post is missing from this thread its because you called someone retarded, stupid or an idiot or some other insulting word. Lets not get all defensive here. We are just talking about antivirus.

[NEVER85]

Speak for yourself. I'm offering FACTS. Have you heard of them before? Maybe you should look that word up in an online dictionary or something. My FIRST POST IN HERE pointed to an antivirus site that uses TESTS to present ACTUAL FACTS about which antivirus is the best. And guess what space captain? Avira Antivir is the best. So feel free to jump off your soapbox any time now...

:rolleyes:

To the OP, try them all out. If you like Avast best, use that. If you prefer Avira, keep that. In the end it'll come down to personal preference, since any of these plus common sense will keep your computer infection free. Numbers by themselves are irrelevant.

[QuickSort]

I don't know why this thread only had a rating 1/5, I am moving to Windows systems and found this thread useful. :)

5/5 rating from me.

[way2quik]

Most users vote on what they current use rather than what is the "best" AV program.

[Astrophizz]

And a lot of prejudices linger. People think that an app that's the best at some point will stay the best or they'll refuse to use something because it didn't work so well some years ago.

[-Armann-]

Nod32 for me right now.

[The_Wizard]

Antivir/Avast for me. This is out of the free versions. If I paid for an antivirus, it would be NOD32.

Same feelings here, I've been using avast! for a few years now with no problems.

[Premgenius]

NOD32 hands down.

[ROM3000]

I currently am using NOD32 and am lucky enough to say that I have not been infected with any virus while having it installed. I love its small footprint and easy to use interface, but I am not sure if I will be renewing my membership come this August.

[SuperSheeep]

NOD32 for me, been using it a couple of years now and since then I've never had any problems with viruses etc. Brilliant anti virus!

[logicwin]

i like avast, its worked the best on my computer so far and i dont ever get infected

[Thiefyo]

eset ruls:) i am using it about 5 years and no problems + lavasys for spyware sometimes but rarly :)

[Vinos]

I use AVG free for my antivirus which is excellent, complete and of course free.

[Boz]

Tried them all..pay ones and free..and Norton AV 2009 is the absolute best one I've used so far..completely out of the way, quiet, light and compatible. That's all I need from AV.

Norton has been releasing horrible products in the past but NAV09 is really really good.

If you get it, just make sure you get the NAV09 only..not Internet Security Suite or other 360 crap they have.

[Brad.]

Just switched to the free version of AntiVir. Very happy with it! Used AVG for a couple of years too, both great products :)

[nocharacters]

Antivir FTW :D

[Lilrich]

What would you use on Windows Server 2003, looking for a soloution to use on my server!

[Fiskarn]

AVG :)

Just love it

[Sethos]

Switched to G Data AntiVirus, which according to various test is one of the best products available today (Y)

[fix-this!]

Switched to G Data AntiVirus, which according to various test is one of the best products available today (Y)

ive tried it before, much too intrusive, system hog too. antivir FTW!

[TEX4S]

What would you use on Windows Server 2003, looking for a soloution to use on my server!

Well Depending on how many clients youre gonna have and how its set up - Kaspersky Enterprise, Endpoint even, really need more info

AVG :)

Just love it

are you f*-ing kidding ?? of course you are - thats like saying - "a Honda Civic is the best car in the world- I just love it !"

[Bhav]

Comodo for me! works great and totally freee :)

[Sethos]

ive tried it before, much too intrusive, system hog too. antivir FTW!

G Data intrusive? It's the least intrusive AV I tried. Just switched from Avira, that WebGuard crap is horrible, slows down surfing and even blocks certain sites without warning, as if the site was down. Horrible piece of software.