What Anti-Virus software protection do you use?

@bradz21 190659 wrote:

If you are careful on what files you open up, you really don’t need to have a anti-virus program in my opinion. To be on the safe side, AVG Free is good to use and it’s free. If you have folks like me that open up every email file that ANYONE emails them ” title=”” class=”bbcode_smiley” />, then I would recommend Trend Micro. I have tested it on XP and Vista and it works great.

Cheers,
Brad

Sorry bradz im going to have to disagree with you here unless you are using a mac…

The difference between the two systems is that, while there are like 2 or 3 virus’ ever made for a Mac, EVERYTHING has to be confirmed to run on a mac whereas on a machine running windows, something can run by itself in the background.. Kudos to Apple for this..

Even if you are the most careful person in the world, without virus protection i can guarantee that you will get a virus at some point, unless you’re not connected to the internet and don’t open anything external to that already on your machine…

I used to use McAfee and Nortons, but found that Norton took up far too much space, and McAfee didn’t pick up as many threats as the others.. AVG is not bad for a free program, but I’m paranoid and have a theory that you get what you pay for in terms of internet security…

Trend Micro has been the best that I’ve had so far.. I have pc-cillan at home and some other version in the office.. doesn’t use up too much space and performs better than any others I’ve tried…

Never tried NOD32 but have heard good things about it.

I think another thing you need to remember is that if you’re running windows you NEED to make sure the updates are installed… you might think that because you have virus protection it doesn’t matter but the updates are mostly there to patch the vulnerabilities in the OS and this can sometimes be a lifesaver… you dont need to get a virus to be vulnerable to attack.

I recommend Avast! (free home edition) :santa2:

I love Kaspersky, but when it finds a trojan, it makes this awful screaming pig noise!

I don´t use any :dozing:

used McAfee until i got a Google redirect virus that it didn’t detect. Ran Malwarebytes and it found the offending Trojan plus 17 others!

Made me wonder what I was paying $99/yr for?

I use Avast because it’s free and it does not bother me with updates, scans etc etc.

I use Kaspersky. The one with a 4000 day license. :bouncer:

Currently using Trend Micro Titanium and the Windows firewall at the same time. You can’t have too much security these days, too many hackers on the Internet lol

I use Avast free home edition for over 5 years now. Never had any visus (knock on wood). It’s really a very good and easy to use program…. also doesn’t slow down my pc.