Definitive Best Antivirus 2010

[Barney T. Administrators]

An updated "Best Antivirus" for 2010. 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.

[PratimGhosh86]

NOD32 served me well for years now ... dont even bother trying something others :) ..

[TEX4S]

Microsoft Security Essentials - FTW ??

Just goes to show you cant fix stupid.

:no:

[Evolution]

I'm finding MSE a little odd to use. On some computer it runs perfectly, while on others there's some kind of software conflict leading to hard faulting and a slower startup.

[omganinja]

No Bullguard? (I dont use it, just sell it to customers) Common sense ftw.

[djnv2010]

MSE & Threatfire (for some reason running TF lowers my Ram use by 200mb's or more) and i then use online scans here and there, just to double check. also running most of the top rated antispyware scanners available every once in a while.

[Awsta]

MSE isn't doing so well according to the last rapport from AV-Test.org.

[COKid]

Common sense is the best AV. Period. None of the products listed is perfect, so I sure as hell wouldn't spend money on any of them. So for me, it's MSE, Sandboxie, and Firefox w/NoScript.

After many years of using it, I have found NOD32 to be over-hyped and over-priced for what it actually does.

[yekGLzhQ4Qju1FtAVcC4]

Norton 2010

[COKid]

Microsoft Security Essentials - FTW ??

Just goes to show you cant fix stupid.

:no:

So you're basically calling all MSE users stupid? Classy.

[mtrftw]

Switching from NOD to Norton in January.

[therandomperson2210]

I like AVG 9.0. I'm not the biggest fan of 2011 AVG though. I might go to Security Essentials soon.

[Subratam]

Emsisoft Anti-Malware ( previously Asquared ) with inbuilt behavior blocker

[StepASide]

- Tried most of them.. Nod32 was good but the newer versions are not.. MSE is fine

[inactive]

Microsoft Security Essentials.

i switched to that roughly 6months ago or so and have not looked back. it's clean and simple and seems to be light on resources etc.

[Technique]

Installed FREE Avast a month ago.

Now i'm getting registration/activation notices which i've just looked in to disabling as they're irritating (don't want to pay for a program - hence FREE software required).

Noticed the program itself now no longer updates & it's no good if you've an anti virus program that wont stay up to date.

So any FREE suggestions?

[e-berlin.org]

Comodo Internet Security Premium (x86 and x64 versions available, totally free of chanrge)

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

You need to register Avast free with a product key, all you have to do is fill out a form and then you'll get one. You need to do it every year.

http://www.avast.com/registration-free-antivirus.php

Just a little bit of effort for something free. :p

Tbh it should have said this when you first downloaded it and installed it.

[Starbuck84]

+1 on Comodo Internet Security, otherwise get MSE. Both are fine in my book. :)

[inferniac]

I'm using Avira and I'm quite happy with it.

[Quattrone]

MSE

[D.J.P]

+1 on Comodo Internet Security, otherwise get MSE. Both are fine in my book. :)

Looking at changing form Kaspersky A/V (license expired - no money to renew), does the trail version of Comodo Internet Security stop running after 30 days, or just lose access to any paid features?

[Chasethebase Veteran]

MSE by far.

[MR_Candyman]

Looking at changing form Kaspersky A/V (license expired - no money to renew), does the trail version of Comodo Internet Security stop running after 30 days, or just lose access to any paid features?

There is a 100% free, no spam popup ads version of both AV and IS packages. They even have more free stuff

[D.J.P]

so in other words, just install the packages separately?

Another question, strange as it may be, can the A/V update source be changed and can you get the updates manually?

Reason is, cause with Kaspersky I have a updater program download updates, then my 3 installations got their updates from the local source (saves me internet bandwidth since updates are downloaded only once)

[MR_Candyman]

If you want the whole security suite, install the suite, if you just want the av, just install the av (though I do like comodo firewall). I'm not sure if you can update manually or not.