Community poll forum: Which antivirus utility protects your computer?

I used to have the Mcfee for a little bit, but then bought the norton anti virus...

Long story short: Panda conflicts with sonic.net, causing it to crash every few minutes. When the sonic.net people finally told me this, and I got rid of Panda, everything was fine. (Panda are also insistent that NO [other] antispyware programs be on the same computer. This suggests other incompatibilities, at least potential, across some of which I think I've run.)

Moral- if you're having a problem with ANY new program, and are using Panda, try deleting Panda and the running the program. If the new program then works, you may decide whether you need Panda, or can get by with, say, AVG (which both sonic.net and my local computer supermaven recommended, and which works fine. And is free.)

Most important effectiveness. I've used Norton, AVG, Mcafee, all of which left some Item undetected on my system. Avast has not ever let me down. It does not seem to have any major system hogs as though some antivirus's have. It isn't the most user friendly at first. But, you can make it around. Oh did I mention it is free also.

Had McAfee for years. Got Avast and it immediately found 2 trojans in my computer. Like it because it scans the memory at startup and doesn't wait until everything is running before it scans. Found out McAfee doesn't scan the memory when starting the computer.

Just as the others state, Avast! is the only one that really works without slowing down your computer operations. I have been using Avast! for many years and continously is the best.

I have tried many other virus programs and they all work well, but they have not provided the level of protection that Avast! provides.

Other programs have annoying pop-ups such as Symantic and Norton. Avast! has none.

Like vhofman stated, Avast! for home use is completely free. They do require registration but it does not need to be done right away. You have 30 days to register and it is just as simple and free. The registration will give you a 14 month license and when that expires, you can register again for another 14 months.

Just agreeing with the others and for the same reasons. Avast has done me proud

I worked for an on-site computer service company for 2 years, doing as many as 5 virus/spyware removal type calls per day. My experience, while doing that, was that AVAST is a "decent" product, but not "the best" at finding and eliminating existing trojan horse virii.

We purchased AVAST's "B.A.R.T." product (boots into a customized version of XP off of CD, and allows running AVAST anti-virus on the files/folders of the hard drive afterwards). A tool they give you creates ISO images to burn onto CDR that combine this product with the latest anti-virus signatures, so you can always make a fresh, updated bootable CD.

This was a useful tool, by the mere fact that you weren't running an infected operating system while trying to clean it... but even after the most exhaustive scan with AVAST in this manner, I could *usually* go back through with AVG Anti-Virus after it was done and find at least 4-10 things it missed.

I use 2 antivir: Nod32 craked (because i test programs first and then buy them)and avg 7.5 anti malware + avg antispyware 7.5 nod didn't update anymore so i instaled avg when avg misses a trojan nod allerts me, but avg finds most trojans. Theese are "eatting" some resoursez but i have enough....
ps: sorry for my bad english

No matter what you do in windows, it is never 100% secure or isolated from intrusions. What you are running is helpful, but i can tell you it is not enough. As long as it is working for you then stick with it. Do not be surprised the day it comes crashing down on you or it slows down again.

randy

i to have used avast for a few years excellent software and gives solid protection and its completly free waht more can you ask

yes i <3 cyberdefender
uses little memory tells me when i need windows updates
does spyware
viruses
its just an all around fantastic program

I selected bitdefender

I also Choose to use Avast! as my antivirus. It updates on a regular basis and in my experience it works very well. Will continue to use on all machines for the foreseeable future.

AVAST ROCKS!

so thorough!

it's amazing

Free. Norton and Mcafee are system hogs. I have had no problems with this Antivirus software. Does the job. Constant updates. Why spend a lot of money on software that causes problems?