Best Virus program for my computer?

[Mem]

<< I'm thinking of getting grisoft's AVG. I'm just concerned as to how this program is free. Are there are any ads associated with the program. I just don't understand how they can support itself. >>



No ads with AVG, it`s only free to some countries,it`s not free for European countries except UK,they also do other anti-virus programs that you pay for like AVG Professional editon which offers more ,so you see Grisoft cover both free and paid anti-virus programs.

 

[bevancoleman]

CA Vet AntiVirus and Eset NOD32 are the top of the list on http://www.virusbtn.com/100/vb100sum.html. Both of them are Australian products too

The top four are;
* Vet
* NOD32
* Norman Virus Control
* Norton AntiVirus

All of these are very good products, I have used NOD32, Vet and Norton AntiVirus and they all are very good apps. I found the email proxy scanner in NOD32 to be better than Norton's, Norton AV tended to stop working (thus killing ability to download emails) at various times.

 

[Wik]

AVG actually picked up on a virus in my dad's email that Norton had not. Both had been up to date also. AVG is great because it is not a resource hog like Norton.

 

[jjones]

I've been using F-secure AV for a several years now. It's always given me complete protection and I d/l files off the internet all the time. I remember reading a report about a year ago that tested all the major AV programs and F-secure beat them all including Norton. Out of something like 136 viruses F-secure did not get infected even once while Norton, the next best, was infected twice. Panda was also one of the best. Unfortunately, I don't have a link to that report or I would post it.

Greatest thing about F-secure besides it's ironclad protection is free virus definition updates forever.

 

[nealh]

I vote for NAV 2002..it works great and if picks up a virus it can quarantine it and prevent the infection...it has saved me several times recently..updating is a snap....

 

[Night201]

Your system will be fine. Duron 700 with 512 RAM. Don't sweat it. Pick up a copy of NAV 2002. You'll like it. It's great!

 

[CrowDog]

Another vote for NAV 2002!