Advice needed: Antivirus software

[ssampier]

I have to vote for Avast! over AVG. Avast will find stuff that AVG wont and its' also free. In my opin, if you want free, go with Avast!

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[DethStryke]

Trend Micro, mentioned previously, is one of the leading corporate level brands. I've used it on a number of installations (small, large and gov.) to great effect. Hotmail now uses them for their built-in scanning solution as well. That's a huge client, as you well know. Also as mentioned, it is not free, but it is good. It is primarily for email scanning though... not really a full virus program.

I prefer for my own machines a clean install of Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate. The Professional (home-user) version is good but the corporate version is the slimmed down on flash / heavy on useful version.

Either way, the anti-virus program is still very good and well deserving of the industry leader that it gained years ago. You cannot compare the Internet Security to the Anti-Virus program as the I.S.'s problem is the all-in-one launcher and attempt to make it dummy proof. The combo packs are bloats-ville (I.S., System Works, etc.). Plain Symantec Anti-virus is the way to go.

 

[ladyofdragons]

I'd go with Avast!. I've been using it for a year now, and have had better luck with it than any other antivirus program I've tried (including Norton, McAfee, and TrendMicro). It's good points include the fact that it's free, that it's got a smaller memory footprint than Norton or TrendMicro, and that it's done a darn good job keeping my computer virus free (and spyware free) for a year.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I'm using Panda. I like it so far.

 

[Scotley]

I have to cast another vote for Anti-Vir. Its a free program from Germany that updates frequently and doesn't hog system resources. I've had some compatibility issues with AVG and Avast which is why I found Anti-Vir in the first place. After nearly two years I can honestly say I'll never go back to McAfee or Norton. I've now used it or recommended it to more than a dozen people and all are pleased with it. I seen it run successfully under XP Home and Professional, Win 98se and Win 2000 on different systems. Note that XP/2000 uses a different version than older operating systems, but both seem to work fine.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

Another vote for AVG...I have it running on all 3 of my home pc's and love it.