Need some help with an anti-virus

[headshrinker]

Anybody have a recommendation?

[tangent]

Avira is what I have been using for years. Its better than just about any of the paid ones and is regularly updated.

Avira.com for free download

[Rhythm of Life]

Avast
Nod 32
Comodo

[gravedigger]

NOD32 is the best. I had McAfee, Norton, Kapersky. They catch some of the bad stuff. NOD32 (No Open Doors) catches ALL of them. It updates the virus definitions once per hour when the computer is on and connected to the Net. They are very aggressive about staying ahead of the evil computer geeks.

[DougJ]

Sounds like some good recommendations.

For me, on windoze machines, I run AVG Free. I've had no issues with it and have used it for years. Of late I'm pretty much gone over to Mac, but run it on my windows partitions and have friends and family that use it.

[Nose Nuggets]

tried them all in a home and most in a corporate environment; still found MS' free Security Essentials finds the most stuff and has the lowest overhead.

[incredablehefey]

avast

[wrestlingnrj]

tried them all in a home and most in a corporate environment; still found MS' free Security Essentials finds the most stuff and has the lowest overhead.

x2, I used to be a big NOD32 fan, but switched over to MSSE.

[Ricky-Ray]

Microsoft Security Essentials or AVG Free Edition.

[blakdawg]

I have used NOD32 a lot - but lately have been having trouble finding a good price on renewals, and have switched to Norton as old NOD32 licenses expire. Norton sucked for awhile, but it's much much faster than it was 2-3 years ago, and I can usually find a 1 yr license for between $10 and $20.

For home and/or lightly-used machines I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials - seems to work OK, it hasn't found any threats, nor have I found any machines where it's installed with threats that have slipped past. I try to keep a mix of different vendors' products running on my network in hopes that if one machine misses something on the way in, another machine running a different AV will detect it. Nobody's perfect.

[BayAreaShooter]

If you have Comcast you get Norton for free. Just a thought.

[Nose Nuggets]

If you have Comcast you get Norton for free. Just a thought.

*hisses and makes a cross with his index fingers*

[sekatoa]

Avoid anything with the term "Norton" is it. However, Symantec Endpoint is decent. I also like AVG for free, and TrendMicro. Never cared much for McAfee, but I think they are better now than they used to be.

[G1500]

NOD 32. I use ESET Smart Security. By far the best there is.

Avast, AVG, Norton all blow. They are ok for free, but you get what you pay for.

[wrestlingnrj]

Avoid anything with the term "Norton" is it. However, Symantec Endpoint is decent. I also like AVG for free, and TrendMicro. Never cared much for McAfee, but I think they are better now than they used to be.

TrendMicro used to be great, and as such the company I worked for decided to not renew our contract with ESET a couple years ago for NOD32 and switched over. Since then I could not tell you how many infections and security breaches we have had with TrendMicro. We're lucky if it will actually even catch anything and if it does that is only to tell us about it, not actually quarantine or clean it.