MUO Polls: Top Antivirus Software. What’s your Favorite?

I haven’t really tried out any free anti virus, except for AVG which didn’t work well for some reason. I bet whatever the issue was, it was fixed since I haven’t tried it in a long time. My favorite anti-virus would have to be NOD32. It’s very lightweight, and scans extremely quickly. It’s the best I’ve had so far, and very light on system resources. The UI used to be archaic, but it has been jazzed up to keep up to date with the Vista look. The main reason I got it was for the low usage of resources, unlike that hog Norton, which I used to have.

clamwin on my usb drive

Avast

Just to let everyone know that we are aware of the technical problems surrounding the poll and we are working to resolve them.

You tell us to vote for a free antivirus but you write (not free) next to some of them. That’s more than lame…

The technical problems surrounding the poll have now been resolved. VOTE AWAY!!

AVG is the way to go. Ofcourse its a bit heavy on the system but considering the protection that we need and the daily updates that they provide its the best. It has been protecting many computers from the past two years, in which I have installed it personally. No problem with the so called virus till date.

I use to like AVG, but it just doesn’t seem so great anymore. I’ve moved on to Antivir. I never did like Avast. Clamwin is nice to have on a USB Drive, just in case. I hear NOD32 is the best non-free anti-virus.

I would have voted for AVG but the free version 8 may have caused serious problems with my DVD writer after I installed it on Saturday. I’ve reverted to Avast and voted accordingly.

My company pays for the Norton license for employee’s home computers. Works out as free for me.

I got CA antivirus and spyware free from TigerDirect and it is really good. I may buy it when my subscription is up. Great piece of software. Highly recommend.

Antivir because it updates automatically. AVG never did that for me.

I don’t use any. I have not for years. If you are opening unknown .exe files, you are taking a risk. If you just surf the web, read email, play online games, you do not need a resource hogging, system crippling, impossible to uninstall AV program.

I <3 Avast!

Avast. definitely avast!

It looks like AVG is way ahead of its nearest competitor and both avg and avast are having good fan following, huh

Great way of promoting AVG by putting up their logo in a “should-be-neutral” poll!

Anyway it really matters how effectively you use your antivirus that what antivirus you use for better protection.

I’m not really a fan of any of the free ones. They don’t really do as well as the non-free ones in my experience. On my laptop though, since I don’t want to purchase another license, I do go with a free one, but I don’t care about the laptop.

My favorite is NOD32, which has kept my main computer clean for years now.

I use clamwin, good lightweight antivirus, it uses small amount of memory than avg.

I moved to Avast after Norton became more of a problem than any virus I ever got. Avast is unobtrusive. It regularly automatically updates in the background, and it is extremely effective. I haven’t been hit by a virus since I started using it a couple of years ago. Unlike Norton, I have never thought it was a nuisance and it has never interfered with a program.

AVG 8.0 beta (free) is out. Spyware search included.

I’ve run AVG Free Edition for years on every computer I’ve ever had and never had a problem. I hope I didn’t just jinx myself!

was using AVG previously, but switched to avast recently and i never looked back.

but im still a little tempted to try out AVG Free 8.0 though

AVG! Small footprint and ease of use. Avast looks good and I will be giving it a good testing in the near future.

What does everyone this is the best AV for catching almost ALL infections? Anyone have any bad experiences using any of the above??

Warm geeky regards,

Karl “TheAdmiN” Gechlik
http://www.askTheAdmin.com

AVG is one of the best, but the new version 8 now has that crappy Yahoo toolbar bundled !!! It’s installed automatically, and good luck trying to remove it. I had to unistall AVG, and it still remained in Firefox (had to deactivate it through the ‘add-ons’ menu.
That’s lame….

I used AVG before my cable/phone/tv provider offered paid McAfee part of the deal. So now I use McAfee. However, if I ever need to get rid of it, I will not be happy - They make it very hard to delete all traces of their stuff off your system. Glad google search found a McAfee delete all.

I use Comodo

moon secure antivirus
it’s clamwin with real time protection
young, maybe still not fully reliable
but very nice idea!

Antivirus software? No, I know how to use a computer.

AVG Free Edition works for me… it detects and resolves threats. also provide daily updates… try this one… i’ll buy a licensed copy today.. thank you AVG… from DMSFH family…

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AVAST, although I’d certainly vote for clamwin if it was there.

I’ll go for KASPERSKY..

i already tried AVG but i didn’t like its performance same also as McAfee.

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