Antivirus Solution

[Sam25]

I'm using Windows XP on my home PC. I need suggestions for a good Antivirus, can someone list a few? Thanks!




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[CalvinHobbes]

Kaspersky
NOD32
Bitdefender
Avira Antivir

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
Kaspersky
NOD32
Bitdefender
Avira Antivir

Add Avast and Norton(I hear it's much better now), and that's all the one's I'd consider. For a free A/V I like Antivir, and I like it enough to pay for it also. It's got great detection rates, and it's low on annoyances.

 

[MadAmos]

Antivir
Norton 2009 either NAV or NIS if you want an integrated firewall *not 360*

 

[Elias824]

+ nod32
low resource, easy to use

 

[kenshin9]

NOD32 works the best for me. Like the previous poster, it's low on resources. I've never gotten a virus for the last couple years.

 

[nordloewelabs]

Free AntiVir. i've been using it for over a year with great results.
has great detection rates and is very light.

 

[Sam25]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I think I'll go for NOD32 or Avira. Cheers!:beer:

 

[BW86]

AntiVir
Avast
AVG

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Kaspersky definitely.

 

[AlexWade]

NOD32
then Kaspersky
then Trend Micro (not recommended)
then McAfee (recommended even less)
then Norton (don't touch with a 2000 foot pole)

Trend Micro used to be very good, but they became complacent. It detects slightly more than McAfee, but still misses a lot. McAfee is a resource hog. Sometimes I feel even if I had 20 GB of memory, I would still need more with McAfee. And Norton is the biggest piece of junk out there. It detects viruses but misses most spyware. I wouldn't trust Norton for anything. The one advantage Trend Micro has is great parental controls, which also include protection for 99% of the malware infested websites.

NOD32 is the best. It is lightweight and it detects any and everything. The only minus is it isn't cheap.

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: AlexWade
NOD32
then Kaspersky
then Trend Micro (not recommended)
then McAfee (recommended even less)
then Norton (don't touch with a 2000 foot pole)

Trend Micro used to be very good, but they became complacent. It detects slightly more than McAfee, but still misses a lot. McAfee is a resource hog. Sometimes I feel even if I had 20 GB of memory, I would still need more with McAfee. And Norton is the biggest piece of junk out there. It detects viruses but misses most spyware. I wouldn't trust Norton for anything. The one advantage Trend Micro has is great parental controls, which also include protection for 99% of the malware infested websites.

NOD32 is the best. It is lightweight and it detects any and everything. The only minus is it isn't cheap.

And you've run tests with NIS2009? Have you even used Norton 2009?

 

[MadAmos]

And you've run tests with NIS2009? Have you even used Norton 2009?

+1
Norton in the new 2009 versions is a very much better animal. I would wager that those who automatically shout "Norton sucks" have never used any version much less the current one.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: Elias824
+ nod32
low resource, easy to use

:thumbsup: