Done with Nortons Antivirus.

[wpeters]

Any good free anti virus avaliable

[Wiley]

Any good free anti virus avaliable

I use Microsoft Security Essentials, never had an issue I'm aware of.  I also don't have anything critical on my home machine.

Wiley.

[wpeters]

I use Microsoft Security Essentials, never had an issue I'm aware of.  I also don't have anything critical on my home machine.

Wiley.

.    Thanks

[Triton28]

A combination of MSE and Malwarebytes seems to be a good choice. 

[WWhiskey]

MSE is all I have,, running Firefox ,,no problems for years now!

[Ack-Ack]

I use ESET Smart Security as it's the most gaming friendly anti-virus/malware program I've used. 

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[Brooke]

At work, we use Microsoft Security Essentials, which I'm happy with.

At home, I use Avast free version, which I'm happy with.

Either one is free and good, in my opinion.  Microsoft Security Essentials is easiest to use of the two.

[Masherbrum]

I use ESET Smart Security as it's the most gaming friendly anti-virus/malware program I've used. 

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Ditto.

[Ack-Ack]

Ditto.

Great minds think alike.



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[MrRiplEy[H]]

MSE is not a 'real' antivirus, it lacks many of the features of eset etc. MS has intended it to be used only together with internet explorer, outlook etc. with protection level at cripple, meaning attachments are blocked etc.

[BaldEagl]

I use MS Security Essentials after dumping McAfee a couple of years ago.  It's got a small footprint although MS themselves have descibed it as "baseline protection".  As long as you aren't stupid it's good enough and it's free.

[Brooke]

I haven't had any problems with MSE blocking my attachments.  Maybe it won't let through .exe attachments -- not sure about that, but if so, you can just put them in a .zip and it will let them through.

MSE is what I'd recommend for a lot of folks, as you don't need to know anything, and it's pretty hard to mess up.

[RotBaron]

As you should be done with it or any of the other big box store AV's.

In my job I'm regularly removing garbage that Norton/McAfee allows, installs or demands that it be a part of their software.

I used to run AVG, now they have too many programs running simultaneously that can not be turned off.

Avast (free) is good.

[Ack-Ack]

Do not use Zone Alarm.

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[MrRiplEy[H]]

I haven't had any problems with MSE blocking my attachments.  Maybe it won't let through .exe attachments -- not sure about that, but if so, you can just put them in a .zip and it will let them through.

MSE is what I'd recommend for a lot of folks, as you don't need to know anything, and it's pretty hard to mess up.

Thats just it, MSE does not have the protections many other suites do because it expects IE and outlook to block 'dangerous' files by default. If you use firefox or chrome to browse or an alternative e-mail client, MSE is fatally flawed immediately. And quite ironically using IE to browse is one of the worst mistakes one can do in general so it's a no win situation basically.