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.

[Izlude]

I posted Microsoft... I would'a posted panda, but they removed so many free features :( Free is where it's at!!!! FREE!!!

Anyway I've never felt better about my computer and my goodies thanks to the ease of use and reliability! *knocks on wood*

[So-Unreal]

I use Microsoft Security Essentials BUT I also use ESET Smart Security 4 aka NOD32 disabled and I just use the firewall.

[MR_Candyman]

Of course there's not poll option for either one I use. I use a combination of Comodo and Immunet

[Minimoose]

MSE wins out of the free ones. Symantec in the ones that you pay for.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Nod32. I used to swear by AVG, and then Avira. We used Avira at work and never had any issues. But then we moved to a more server-centralised platform and implemented NOD32, and boy did it find some things that were missed. And it still has a fairly small footprint!

[tuto]

Well, i uninstall MSE from my pc and laptop (after several months trough first beta, MSE 1.0, beta v2.0 and MSE 2.0) because VERY slow boot times and poor perfomance ( i added my programs to the exception list(autocad, steam and games folder) for better performance).

Now i run Avira and i had faster boot times and small performance impact.

[MR_Candyman]

Uh, that's redundant. May I ask why?

redundancy is a good thing

[Salty Wagyu]

Deleted my MSE vote and added to Avast, a few bugs in MSE (commonly reported on microsoft forums) that caused me to switch I'm afraid.

[Lazerous Faewolfe]

Bit defender for me. I have experienced Norton. I used to love it. Then I found out how bad their tech support is when you get a bad disc. 3 hours, 8 techs later I was finally refunded my money because of the bad disc. Then I went to AVG. I had to reformat my computer after a few months, AVG itself was infected. Avast is nice, but it also fell short. After exhausting those 2 Free antiviruses. I found out Bit defender offered a Free version. Tried it. My pc has been virus free on their free version. That's all it took for me, But then again I'm a dialup user so the fact that there is not active scanning while online does not bother me.

[FiB3R]

Haven't run any AV or firewall software on any of my systems in years. (apart from the odd scan with malwarebytes now and then, just out of curiosity)

Decided to install MSE a while ago. I don't know it's there, so that's great. Is it doing a good job? I don't know.

[rvbfan]

MSE for me.

[Max Veteran]

MSE for newer systems for clients that don't want paid AV.

Avast for older systems (XP) for clients that don't want paid AV.

NOD32 for all systems when the client wants the best.

[kopsarchidis]

+1 for MSE 2. By far better than the previous one although on my 7 it has triggered a massive update of more than 300Mb. Not big deal, but I always want to be in control of the Auto Updates.

[Emperatoor]

Hello everyone :) i am new in this forum

I have a great windows 7 64bit more than 1 year and a MSE installed on that.

and i never get any virus that MSE can't detect it

it run way better than the others

it is speedy ! that is important to me

I installed it on more than 50 PCs & laptop because it is GREAT :D

[yowanvista]

KIS2011

[apul]

Microsoft Security Essentials got my vote.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

I have created a Definitive Best Antivirus 2011 message poll here to continue the discussion in the new year.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

[Denis W. Veteran]

Thanks for creating that thread goretsky. I'll close and de-pin this one in favour of your new thread.

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