fav antivirus

what is your favorite anti virus the one you have use for years and why is it your favorite.

mine happens to be avast only requment was the reqestrastion but complete free.
very low resources.unlike norton the resouce hog.

I use AVG free
hasnt let me down yrt

Avast for me although I have run AVG.
I have even run Norton when I was a mere pup and didn't know any better.

I had Norton Ulilities 2003
Never had any trouble with it until it came to uninstalling it

use avg here, it's free and does the job reasonably well. I also like their malware app, so I figured may as well keep the two together.

And like wolfey and bm, started with norton until it let 106k trojans into my system in about 20 seconds. After I got that mess cleaned up, decided to do 2 things:

learn more about malware, and dump norton. :)

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avest will always be the best. i have used avg and avest cought alot of stuff avg dident.

so i take it no one like norton.

I had AVG but I realised that it dident spot some viruses and sometimes it picks up viruses sometimes when they are not

I currently use NOD32

Have AVG set to run a full scan every night. Also use AVG ant malware Adaware and Asquared that I run alternately when I'm at work. use Zone alarm and a hardware firewall.

Avast for me.

Avira anti virus for me, the best I have used thus far and I have tried most
oh and its free

My favorite antivirus software is Panda Internet Security 2007.

I have used Norton an Mcafee and I didn't like them.

Then I bought Panda a few years ago and I first tried out Panda Antivirus Titanium and newer versions.

But then more virusses came on the web and I decided to try out Panda Platinum Internet Security ( now called Panda Internet Security 2007 ) and I have sticked with this one, because I think it's the best around.

It has TruPrevent Technologies aboard and that proactive shield protects you against new virusses and other malware.

I have seen TruPrevent Technologies into action once and it really works well.

I recommend Panda to everyone.


I even recommended Panda to my girlfriend, who was also using Norton on her laptop a few years ago.

Norton is mostly pre-installed on many computers nowadays.
It's called "bloatware", I recently saw on another website.
I hate Norton or Mcafee nowadays.

I don't recommend any freeware antivirus. That's just my opinion.

Panda 30.9 mb

Avast! Home 14.5 mb with the same amount of free protection as any paid version.

AVG 22.5 mb

@evilfantasy : Yes, but Panda also has TruPrevent Technologies that are installed.

These are the results from a Trojan Simulator ran on multiple AV clients. As you can see TruPrevent Technologies may not be all they are cracked up to be. I am not saying Panda is bad. I am saying that Avast is on top of their game and I have the results to prove so.

You can find the simulator here.
http://www.misec.net/trojansimulator/

How many of those are false positives though
I tried spyware doctor and it said i had a nasty trojan which was not true
Bitdefender and panda and SAS found no trace