What's the Best Antivirus?

Paid for, Bitdefender or Kaspersky. Both come top in every comparison test I've read.

Free; Avast.

http://www.zonealarm.co.uk/security/en-us/zonealar...

http://www.avast.com/en-gb/index - Avast anti virus

http://www.safer-networking.org/private/details/#F... - spybot Search and Destroy

http://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html - Spywareblaster

http://www.siteadvisor.com/download/windows.html - Mcafee Site Advisor

http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?DownloadSandbox... - Sandboxie

A sandbox creates a virtual partition on your hard drive and ghosts your os on to it. Nothing in the

sandbox can move outside of the partition unless you want it to. Sandboxie will give you a desktop

icon for a sandboxed web browser that looks like a slice of pizza. Double click that and your browser will open. Close the browser and everything is deleted. This is the safest surfing can get!

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You would get more meaningful answers in a Poll category than here. There are almost no people here who support more than a handful of computers and their answers are based on their personal experience with that handful.

I do this for a living, but when I answer with the one that has consistently outperformed all the rest, I get thumbs down. What I have suggested on some of the dozens of other times this question has been asked, is to look through all the questions where they have had problems with viruses.

You will see two patterns. One is that most people who are attacked by viruses have no protection at all. The next category, going down in count, is those who have one of the free programs. The next is the major brands of paid programs. The last category of those with virus problems, those with the least viruses are the ones that use Norton.

That statement will garner me several thumbs down, but if you do your research, you will find that is true. I think it is totally obvious which product is the best.

Make no mistake about it, I hate both the Norton product and the company. I hate their so called tech support even more. But, they are the best of the bunch, even with all the negatives about them.

Free: Avast! antivirus

Paid: Trend Micro

Norton is very bad, at my work I've seen virus's made to break Norton and Norton reallllllllly slows down the computer and is a pain in the rectum to deal with.

If you don't like viruses install Ubuntu Linux to replace Windows. Its free and there are less viruses than macs. Also its faster!

I used Norton for quite a while and was great. I dont have the money for another yearly subscription, so im using AVG free which is ok. I would stay away from mcafee, I used the free trial a few years ago and it used slow down my PC when scanning.

Also another great free software for removing spyware is "spybot seach and destroy".

The best anti-virus (in terms of detection rate) is Kaspersky (paid): http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/store?redef=1&reseller=...

The antivirus I use is Microsoft Security Essentials (free). It has an OK detection rate, but the lowest false positives and one of the best performance (in terms of CPU and RAM usage.): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/windows/securit...

Like Hunter said, Avast is the best. I have it and it saved my PC from crashing on several sites.

Avg or Avast.. Thous are the 2 best... Norton is old and outdated. McAfee is even older .... like dialup....