What is the best antivirus / computer protection software for the money?

Is free cheap enough?

I like AOL Active Virus Shield. Don't let the name AOL fool you. Active Virus Shield is made by Kaspersky which is one of top-rated anti-virus vendors in the world.

In recent tests, the most popular free anti-virus, AVG, was only able to detect about 82% of a very large sample of viruses. On the other hand, Active Virus Shield was able to detect better than 99% in the same test.

Full test chart is here:

http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id...

Active Virus Shield has excellent virus detection rates and is extremely light on using your computer resources. (6mb ram)

Active Virus Shield detects and removes spyware, also.

And it updates up to 15 times a DAY with new virus definitions, 7 days a week!

Good stuff, free for everyone from:

http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/...

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Kaspersky Internet Security 6

Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 is a fully integrated security solution that combines reactive detection methods with the latest proactive technologies, protecting your PC from viruses, hacker attacks, spam and spyware. Seamless integration of all product components (including a personal firewall) eliminates system conflicts and provides fast performance.

http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/interne...

AVG is by far the best free anti virus. But if you are looking to spend money by far the best pay to use one is Kaspersky. Nothing gets through it thats like the fort knox of anti virus.

And i applaud your waking up and realizing norton is a big piece of junk way to go :)

Free Protection suite:

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Full time (active) virus protection:

AVG Antivirus 7.5 Free Edition

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/avg-anti-v...

or

Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

or

AOL Active Virus Shield

http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/...

http://reviews.cnet.com/AOL_Active_Virus_Shield/45...

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Install Windows Defender (full time spyware protection)

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/s...

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Install the following five programs and run at least monthly. You need all five. They are not a substitute for full time spyware and virus protection. They greatly increase you protection no matter what spyware and virus protection you use.

Ad-Aware SE Personal (update + full scan)

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_pe...

Spybot Search & Destroy (update + immunize + scan)

Do not enable Tea Timer and SDHelper

After installation: update + scan + immunize

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.h...

SpywareBlaster: Update then open and click “enable all protection”.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm...

SUPERAntiSpyware free version: (update + scan)

http://www.superantispyware.com/

CCleaner: Do not install toolbar and recycle bin options

Removes tracking cookies, unneeded files, history

In options.

Set to run when computer starts.

Place cookies you want to keep in save list

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Use AVG it is free and works great:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

They also have a good rootkit software that is also free.

I have used AVG for close to two years and had no viruses on any of my computers.

Read reviews online to convince yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_Anti-Virus

Go to www.download.com and look at what they have there. You should be able to get something (for example, Spy Sweeper with Anti-Virus) for a reasonable price.

hey i would say McAfee im using it its way better than nortons and realy easy to use and if you dont want to buy it just ask

McAfee is ok

but for free AVG

how about kaspersky so far its the best antivirus thats worth the money http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner