Can anyone recomend some good Anti Virus software?
 

As the topic title suggests I am looking for some good Anti-Virus software to replace AVG free, as the AVGRS.exe process has recently decided it needs 80% of my CPU resources, even when AVG is Idle. I have trawled the web and it seems there is no simple solution for this problem. other than kill/disable the process.
So i figured I will jump ship and trash AVG.

I am Looking for replacement AV software that is either Cheap or free :) and does a reasonable job, viruses dont bother me too much since I ghost
my system drive every month or so. So if i get something truley nasty, i will simply recover from the last image.

Anyway, all recomendations welcome - apart from Norton and McAffee, (I hate them both - for reasons too long and boring to explain here)

Thanks guys :up:

Well I have had McAfee, AVG and quite a few others, I now have Avira Free personal edition & been using for the last couple of years with no hassles, very happy,:up: I use this with XP, don't know about Vista or Win 7 though.:hmmm:

I trashed AGV
 

It is not compatable with outlook 2007, now using AVAST free.:sunny:

I've been using Avast for a long time now. It is really good and has saved me a number of times. I've only used AVG twice and never will again. I never recommend it, either. On one occasion it let a homepage hijacker slip through (a couple days after installing it). I don't remember what happened the second time, if it let something slip through or adversely affected my computer, but something messed up. I got rid of it for Avast.

No Rootkit! and Malware
 

F-Secure Client Security.

Hello mate1
 

I send a post before but I add this also, Spybot-Search & destroy,free and blocking all bad pages or redirect.I´ts simple and run silent very low CPU,so u don`t need to boot all the time the app manage this.

This has already been posted and gave alot of choices.

Avast was a clear winner on All OS.


Check link: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=158423

If the Antivirus app..
 

Have realtime update,its ok! No matter what kind off app,you use,but if the app ONLY take down data update ,say 1 or 2 times every day,not good so realtime update is a fact..

Avast! FTW.

NOD32

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Not free, not cheap, just good. :up:

Kaspersky AntiVirus 8.0
Not free but definitely worth it!

The new Norton 360 3.0 is quite good infact. Check out some of the reviews.

Use Avast, Malewarebytes and of course your firewall. :03:

I know I said I would never use AVG again, but guess what I just installed? :oops: I still like Avast and recommend it to people with a computer not as possessed as mine. :damn: I had to remove Avast and figured AVG is better than no AV protection. I sure hope AVG won't start using 80% of my CPU like JU_88. :doh: Here's a little bit on why I got rid of Avast:

Every once in a while (been happening for a long time now) I would boot up my computer and the little Avast bubble in the system tray would appear with the red symbol as if it was disabled. When it first started happening, I would go to Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - and choose Avast. From there I could do a repair and be on my way again (this was the solution I found on the Avast forums). Well, somewhere along the way it started affecting the bootup process. My computer would just hang. I would have to boot into Safe Mode to resolve the issue (been doing this for quite a while, too). Well, today just happened to do the same, except it didn't go too well. It has been at the back of my mind what would happen if Avast wouldn't repair. I found out today. :damn: I uninstalled it via Safe Mode and redownloaded it. Once installed and rebooted, the same thing happened. I uninstalled it again in Safe Mode and went crawling back to AVG. :dead:

AVG has sure changed since I last used it (7.5 I think). Hopefully, I won't have any issues with it like I did Avast. Someday when I get a different computer I will probably go back to Avast. Right now, though, I am relegated to using AVG again.