Best antivirus software?

[gametime10]

What Antivirus software do you consider best? By best, I am mainly thinking of two categories:

- Efficiency - does not hog a lot of resources
- Effectiveness - catches all viruses

I've been mostly looking at the "big corporation" antivirus suites (ie: Norton AV 2002...) but I've read mixed reviews, with most of the complaints being about it's unstability and resource hogging. If there are better, but less well-known software, that you could recommend, I would try it out.

Thanks,

Geoff

 

[Whitecloak]

NAV is good.

 

[Mem]

I know what`s the best free anti-virus,it`s AVG ,not a resource hog and works great with 95,98,ME,2K,XP.

 

[QTPie]

NAV for me

 

[gametime10]

I'll be sure to give AVG a try. Thanks!

 

[MWink]

I've started using Norton Anti-Virus 2002 (part of Systemworks 2002) and I've been pretty happy with it. The review I read said it used very little CPU time compared to other AV programs. I have not found it to be unstable at all. You can get it for about $20 shipped from Newegg.

 

[308nato]

Panda

Panda software


Its fast and catches everything. Try it out.

 

[TheWart]

another happy AVG user.

 

[Mavrick007]

I also vote for AVG. It's "A Very Good" anti-virus program. 😉
I wonder if that's what it stands for.