Light on memory and CPU

Scans as fast as possible

Best detection possible

And what ever else you guys think makes it the best.

I have tried AVAST, AVG and NOD

AVAST is great but to slow in scanning

AVG is slow and uses up some resources too.

NOD actually missed a virus which killed my computer.

Currently I am running no antivirus and I feel OK so far, except for the home page change.

Kaspersky (35%, 6 votes)

AVAST (23%, 4 votes)

Avira (17%, 3 votes)

AVG (11%, 2 votes)

NOD 32 (5%, 1 votes)

Norton Internet Security 2010 (5%, 1 votes)

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The best free is avast! home edition

Here is the latest comparative from av-comparatives
http://www.av-comparatives.org...tests

Good information there. Thanks much!

Z

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I use Norton 360 and I use my POS 1.3ghz Celeron while it does a full PC/External HDD scan.

Norton or

Switch to Norton internet security 2009

My symantec anti-virus and ad-aware se have both been attacked by tailor made viruses.

so i mix it up.

I have a 1.8 ghz Celeron and my PC barely slows down durring full PC scans. I don't understand how this is possible mean while some NICOnauts are using PCs 100xtimes stronger then my laptop

Alternate universe FTW

Myself and online reviewers have found it to be a resource hog in it's default implementation.

I am running:
Norton 360 PC Scan (Comprehensive w/ High Priority)
Google Chrome x6 (w/ photos)
VLC Player
LimeWire (no music)
BitTorrent (4x uploads)
MS Word

And the only thing I can notice are longer then expected copy/paste times on Word. And random skipped frames on my movie player which happend quickly and not frequently.

Try giving Norton a shot...
This way I don't think I am nuts...

Sorry for the smalll picture.

PC Specs:
Dell Note Book Insprion 6000
Intel Celeron M - 1.3GHz
1.99 GBs of ram
SigmaTel C-Major Audio (sound card?)
33.5 GB HDD

Modified by rcabrita at 11:50 AM 5/13/2009

Right now even with AVG 8.5, ad-aware, and malware, I am fighting the AV 2009 virus nearly every day. It keeps eating/infecting more and more stuff even though I use all three scanners daily...so those don't rank very high on my satisfaction level.

Run malwarebytes.

You only need to do a quick scan. Let it remove everything that it finds. That should resolve your issue permanently, or atleast untill you visit those naughty sites again...

Speaking of Malwarebytes, I'm going to run it again since I've spent a few hours on the internet.

Try ccleaner to clean up any temporary files that those popups may be hiding in.

A lot of times, while scanning with MalBytes, AVG will pop up detected viruses in weird files when Malbytes scans it.

Note, AVG doesnt have a rootkit scanner in the free version

jk jk nod 32 is decent

I've used both Norton & McAfee. Both missed a virus which killed my laptop. I've been running Kaspersky for about a year now & I haven't had any problems.

Also, look into Windows Defender & the latest version of Spybot. With those 3 programs together, it may slow down a bit, but your PC will pretty much be invincible.

adaware-cleanings cookies and crap

malwarebytes-malware and some Trojans etc

AVG- general virus protection

Blackice- incoming and outgoing security

Ive making a carputer and stressing about fast boot times and resources you want your computer to run... use these not norton or mcrappy.

Something is better than nothing, but I would recommend ZoneAlarm over Blackice for use as a firewall ... read the stuff at http://www.grc.com (and run their firewall ShieldsUp™ tests) to understand why!

Z

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read the stuff at http://www.grc.com (and run their firewall ShieldsUp™ tests) to understand why! Z

Wow...there's a lot of really good info there. I wish I'd discovered that site years ago.

Funny thing...I read his real downloader article. Took me back to the days when my family first got AOL in 97 or 98. I remember some videos or music using realplayer format. The first time I downloaded realplayer it struck me as unacceptably invasive. It felt like it was trying to take over my computer (which it no doubt was). I uninstalled it and never touched another real-anything ever again. Funny how the big companies of the early internet years are barely remembered anymore. Guess that "force yourself on the consumer" tactic didn't work as well as they'd hoped.

kinda like the ghostbusters vault.

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Just reinstall windows every month

that is the funnyest thing i ever read. i stole it for my sig