best anti virus-

[scoe4]

kaspersky

[Dave]

I've used several different ones. Right now I have two that I'm using, NAV and AVG. I have been well satisfied with NAV for the last several years, and even though it may hog resources, IMO it does a far better job than McAfee. In the last month, I've used AVG and I am very impressed with it.

IMO, the top two are NAV and AVG, and not necessarily in that order when it comes to best.

Dave

[b_young86]

No No No, i've used all of them, nothing compares to Anti Vir XP home edition. It's a small program, works just as well as Mcafee, it's free, and it comes with a program that will update the software and virus definition files. WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT. go to http://www.free-av.com/ to get it. you won't use anything else again...

[ChaosBlizzard]

Originally posted by b_young86
No No No, i've used all of them, nothing compares to Anti Vir XP home edition. It's a small program, works just as well as Mcafee, it's free, and it comes with a program that will update the software and virus definition files. WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT. go to http://www.free-av.com/ to get it. you won't use anything else again...

Im not so sure about using something so new. I would have to test it with something. Its easy to change the sig of a trojan, thats generally what I do to test an anti-virus program. I would also have to read quite a few reviews from good source before I would consider getting rid of NAV.

[vege4me]

For years I trusted Norton, updating it daily and doing a complete scan at least once a week. But it let a few viruses slip in, including the deadly Blaster.Worm, and for a few months I was unaware of this, only the computer was acting very sluggishly.

Each time I scanned, Norton declared a clean bill of health. I only became aware of the Blaster.worm when I tried to use the Bluetooth gadgets.

Everytime this Blaster.worm act up, blocking my Bluetooth from function, Norton would show a notice stating it cannot delete, quarantine, or repair the file. That is obviously ridiculous. Why pay Norton when it cannot do its job.

Finally, I purchased PC-cillin from Amazon, and it immediately killed Blaster and a host of the netsky viruses.

So, PC-cillin from Trend Micro shines above the rest of the anti-virus pack.

I've gone through that hassle deep and long enough, and I now trust PC-cillin.

[ChaosBlizzard]

Originally posted by vege4me
For years I trusted Norton, updating it daily and doing a complete scan at least once a week. But it let a few viruses slip in, including the deadly Blaster.Worm, and for a few months I was unaware of this, only the computer was acting very sluggishly.

Each time I scanned, Norton declared a clean bill of health. I only became aware of the Blaster.worm when I tried to use the Bluetooth gadgets.

Everytime this Blaster.worm act up, blocking my Bluetooth from function, Norton would show a notice stating it cannot delete, quarantine, or repair the file. That is obviously ridiculous. Why pay Norton when it cannot do its job.

Finally, I purchased PC-cillin from Amazon, and it immediately killed Blaster and a host of the netsky viruses.

So, PC-cillin from Trend Micro shines above the rest of the anti-virus pack.

I've gone through that hassle deep and long enough, and I now trust PC-cillin.

I have seen reviews of both pc-chillin and bitdefender and they both seem to be great, they were both tied neck to neck. I will have to try these one day. Get a company that specializes in virus's. Norton does the entire pc maintainance feild, this may explain why one of their products arent as good as a specialized companys would be.