[BodiesOfLight]

What's a good one? I have Norton '05, which I've been happy with but have been told by a reliable source that it sucks. I had McAfee and that was garbage.

 

[Kirosia]

I use kaspersky. Dunno how good it is in the grand scheme of things, but I like it better than norton.

 

[blip]

I use AVG but I think the king of the roost is generally recognized as being Nod32. If you search there was a long thread on this a month or two ago.

 

[Senn20]

Yeah, AVG Free is good. They also have some better ones for purchase.

 

[Arainach]

Norton's a resource hog. Mcaffee is useless. I'm a big fan of AVG or Kaspersky.

 

[asmox]

avast is good.

 

[BodiesOfLight]

Cool, thanks to you all for the recommendations.

 

[catachresis]

There are a lot of fans out there of ESET's Nod32 Antivirus. I think it's an amazing antivirus. Very light on resources and effective.

 

[pennylane]

I use anti-vir and I have 0 complaints.

 

[FalconP]

Avast Free plus AVG Free if you don't want to spend a buck. Neither is an effective catch-all, so play safe and install both.

Kaspersky is probably the one for those who have some bucks to spare.

 

[Lisa]

I was told that running two anti virus progams could be dangerous, crash your computer or something. Is that right?

 

[KJ_Palmer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by pennylane I use anti-vir and I have 0 complaints.

I also use Antivir (so far) without mishap...

 

[blip]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lisa I was told that running two anti virus progams could be dangerous, crash your computer or something. Is that right?

Yes/No/Maybe. Some anti-virus programs have a bad tendency to interfere with each other. I seem to recall that certain versions of McAffee and Norton would cause instability if run together. The bigger problem (again IIRC) is that anti-virus programs have been known to, again on occasion, identify each other as viruses.... sometimes deleting quarantined files or damaging each others installations.

Still I think that both of these problems are somewhat rare (i.e. it only occurs with specific combinations of programs) and I don't recall having heard about them occuring in the recent past so they may have been ironed out.

 

[tennisets]

I've been pretty happy with AVG Free.

 

[MadDog5145]

NOD32