Ant-Virus

[ACE]

Whats a good anti-virus program that i can run on my new computer when it gets here.  I'm using norton on this one and ppl say its terrible.

[Hawk55]

I personally use ESET NOD32 and have for years.  Never had any issues. very easy to use and most importantly, is not a resource hog.  My 2 cents. Good luck with the new rig.   

[ColTomb]

ESET smart security. It has the NOD32 antivirus AND firewall..Very game friendly. and as Hawk55 posts,not a resource hog.

[The Fugitive]

As a free one I use Avira. It's pretty good has updates and is free. I'm sure its not as good as ESET, but you have to pay for ESET. Also I'm pretty careful of where I "go" and what I "do" on my computer. If your careless or don't stay "on top of things" you might want to invest the money for ESET.

[ACE]

All I do on my computer is aceshigh forums and maybe facebook I want a good free anti virus.

[gpwurzel]

Maybe microsoft security essentials - just switched to that from AVG due to issues with avg. Not sure how good it is mind.


Wurzel

[oneway]

Personally I like Kaspersky...

It lets you terminate it with a simple right click and close from the tray.

ESet does not let you do that. Once running it is impossible to shut down...and behave like a virus itself.

Kaspersky also has a much smaller footprint than ESet.

[fbWldcat]

As always, I'll stand by Kaspersky, although I've tried others, Kaspersky is great.

[TilDeath]

Personally I like Kaspersky...

It lets you terminate it with a simple right click and close from the tray.

ESet does not let you do that. Once running it is impossible to shut down...and behave like a virus itself.

Kaspersky also has a much smaller footprint than ESet.

False statement.  You can right click the ESET icon in your tray and turn off one item at a time (firewall or AV or Real Time File protection) or the whole suite, the choice is yours.

Also  NOD32 is the ONLY AV software never to be penetrated by a wildfire release.  No other AV software can make this claim.  Kaspersky is the 6th most bypassed AV software out there 1) AVG 2) Panda 3) Trend Micro 4) McAfee 5) BitDefender 6) Kapersky and so on...

TD

[Ghastly]

False statement.  You can right click the ESET icon in your tray and turn off one item at a time (firewall or AV or Real Time File protection) or the whole suite, the choice is yours.

Also  NOD32 is the ONLY AV software never to be penetrated by a wildfire release.  No other AV software can make this claim.  Kaspersky is the 6th most bypassed AV software out there 1) AVG 2) Panda 3) Trend Micro 4) McAfee 5) BitDefender 6) Kapersky and so on...

TD

TD, I seem to remember this coming up before.  He (or whoever it was the first time if it wasn't him) wanted to TERMINATE the AV (i.e. no running processes) - not just disable it. And he's right - Eset does protect it's running processes, so you can disable it via the gui but if you try to terminate it you get "access denied".

Of course, given that most of the malware today actively attacks AV and Anti-Spam tools, in my opinion it's vital that my AV resist termination - but he sees it's resistance to termination as an objectionable action that makes it virus-like. I disagree as would anyone with sense but hey, everyone's entitled to their own opinion (even if it's wrong!

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[JOACH1M]

Be rolled with kaspersky for 2 years and works awsome

[Dogtown]

i have a similar problem...i have windows defender on my new rig ,,,,but my computer is telling me to get an antivirus program...Avira has recommended,,,do i need them both?

[ACE]

Anything out there thats free and good lol.

[Ghastly]

With the (possible) exception of the Microsoft Security Essentials, from my experience anything that's free is worth about what you pay for it.

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[maddafinga]

Anything out there thats free and good lol.

I've used Avast for a good while and it is good.  Never had a complaint with it really.  Recently I switched to Eset security essentials and am extremely happy with it, anti virus and firewall, no complaints whatsoever.  If you don't want to pay the small amount for the Eset though, give Avast a try.