Norton AntiVirus or AVG Free AntiVirus?

[BroadbandGamer]

I want a program that doesn't use much resources, can scan for viruses and then leave me alone.

What do you guys think?

 

[dguy6789]

Norton would probably be better than AVG, but I prefer Kaspersky to all of them. The only bad side to Kaspersky is that is takes longer than most others to load up into the tray, but other than that it performs very well.

 

[mdchesne]

neither. I foudn trend micro pc to find more viruses and spamware than norton, mcaffee, and certainly all the free programs out there

 

[Budman]

Antivir

 

[JackMDS]

Freeware Security suit for Internet Connection Protection.

:sun:

 

[madthumbs]

Another vote for neither. Those two aren't worth the resources they use. Kaspersky is.

 

[shortylickens]

If you had to pick between the two I suggest Norton.

Just dont let it autorun or autoupdate or any other auto crap.


P.S. I have used both and Norton finds all kinds of stuff AVG wont.
BUT..... For a free utility AVG is actually pretty nice.

 

[Lord Banshee]

I like my Norton Corp. version. It is fast and lite unlike the desktop version.

 

[daniel49]

have used both. You will get better detection with norton but I do think Its bloated and slows your system.

Am trying trend on one system now..good detection but updates are very bloated for some reason I can update twice a week and its a 7 mb file each time?

Mcafee I would avoid like the plague...they say kapersky is good but I still don't trust russians


my two cents worth

 

[Schadenfroh]

Please see this thread

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1375461&enterthread=y

 

[boomerang]

Go here and click "online results".

The most recent results are for May. It's pretty early in the morning, but it appears the winner is NOD32.

NAV's results are so bad as to be embarrasing. Kaspersky consistently scores high. Results will vary from month month.

When our NAV subscriptions expire, I'm moving to another product.

 

[yukichigai]

Since we have your ear Schadenfroh, do you happen to have an updated list of x64-compatible Free AV programs? I'm still using Avast; it'd be nice to be able to switch to something a little better.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
I like my Norton Corp. version. It is fast and lite unlike the desktop version.

I concur.