What antivirus program do you use?

[x-alki]

Avast free edition.

 

[dwell]

Microsoft Security Essentials

 

[Mucho]

Been using Avira for years, and I'm completely happy with that.

:thumbsup:

 

[boomhower]

Microsoft Security Essentials. Before that it was Avira and before that AVG. I really like the MS software and don't see myself going back to either of the other two.

 

[mztykal]

Norton 2009/10

Completely better than anything '08 and below.

 

[BeauJangles]

Microsoft Security Essentials

This is the best antivirus / antispyware program I've used.

 

[Bateluer]

None. Occasionally, I scan my system with Malwarebytes, which always comes up negative. Windows Defender scans regularly though, but it never finds squat.

I'd run Linux Mint, but I enjoy PC games too much.

 

[bruceb]

Avira, free version ... you need to turn off that buy me, nag screen ... easy to do instructions via google

 

[Number1]

Norton 2009. Yeah yeah, flame me all you want... however, they completely rewrote this program from the bloated piece of crap 2008 and older were, to something that uses very little system resources and installs quick.

Ive been using norton internet security for years and I have no complaints. It is very defective and as kept my systems virus free.

 

[BrownShoes]

Norton 2010.

 

[BladeVenom]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353447,00.asp only reason it got a score of "good" is because it's free.

Nice, even better in their next article they recommend Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition 1.0 as their top choice for a free solution. Anyone try that one?

 

[aircooled]

Avira on all my win7 boxes, but I just installed MSE on my laptop to see how well it will do.

Symantec corporate at work.

 

[caddlad]

This.

 

[AppleHuHu]

Norton 2009 at my laptop.

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.microsoft.com/security/products/mse.aspx
Free, quiet, low resource use, absolutely zero nagging and effective. The best free tool available at the moment.

since i started using windows 7 , i use microsoft security essentials

 

[Squisher]

Nod32

 

[arcenite]

McAfee, get it for free through comcast

 

[Modelworks]

MS security essentials is what I use . I do virus research as a hobby , I keep a pc that has no protection, just an imaged backup ,that I infect with malware/rootkits/virus on purpose to see what they are doing, then I disassemble them to see how they work.

Most virus used to be vbscripts but that has changed especially in the past year. An idiot programmer decided it would be cool to create a virus creation tool that requires no programmer knowledge. It is a menu and check box driven program that allows someone to run it, pick what they want the virus to do, then it creates the virus program and can even scramble and obscure the code so AV programs cannot easily find it. That program has caused a flood of new virus to appear since now non-programmers can create them.

I like MSE since it doesn't get in the way. It isn't as light on resources though as many think. If you are just looking at the Mssecs.exe that isn't the amount of resources it is using. That is the interface and menus for it. Instead look for MsMpEng.exe , that is the actual program, for me that is 148MB . Still not too much for me not to use it.

 

[Possessed Freak]

At home... nothing. At work, Symantec.

 

[pontifex]

Norton 2009. Yeah yeah, flame me all you want... however, they completely rewrote this program from the bloated piece of crap 2008 and older were, to something that uses very little system resources and installs quick.

Same here

 

[pontifex]

Ive been using norton internet security for years and I have no complaints. It is very defective and as kept my systems virus free.

lol, i think you meant effective?

 

[sonoma1993]

avast

 

[iGas]

linux

Same here.

PS. Software for Windows & Security -------->

 

[dwell]

Instead look for MsMpEng.exe , that is the actual program, for me that is 148MB . Still not too much for me not to use it.

What's the CPU hit though? If your system is up a week what's the CPU Time for that process. That was my problem with Symantec; leave your system up for a week and rtvscan.exe is the top CPU Time process. Not to mention it rapes your HDD.

 

[olds]

Poll fail.