Malware & virus protection

[gschoelles]

Avast and Malwarebytes. Two alongside each other and nothing seems to get through. Have had this setup on two adult computers, two teen computers, and two collage girl computers. I consider this well tested.

[cid`]

ms security essentials is crap, its free + failed virus certification earlier this year.. there is no straight forward answer, it all depends on what type of system you have and what type of protection you need.

if you are sucky and need full protection, either bit defender or kaspersky
if you are somewhat competant, avast/eset nod32 and malwarebytes

this also depends on your system, if you have anything with 4+ gigs of memory, the first 2 shouldnt feel so bad, otherwise they will slow your crap down badly.. eset is good but it doesnt catch everything.. even with malwarebytes, run the tdsskiller from kaspersky once in a while to check for tdss/tdl infections..