Can anyone recomend some good Anti Virus software?

[danlisa]

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[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by danlisa

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Not free, not cheap, just good.

[conus00]

Kaspersky AntiVirus 8.0
Not free but definitely worth it!

[VirtualVikingX]

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

[AVGWarhawk]

Use Avast, Malewarebytes and of course your firewall.

[Syxx_Killer]

I know I said I would never use AVG again, but guess what I just installed? I still like Avast and recommend it to people with a computer not as possessed as mine. 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. 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. 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.

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.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Use Avast, Malewarebytes and of course your firewall.

Use the free Malewarebytes and Zone Alarm thats good enough.

Forget about the stupid anti virus software.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Use the free Malewarebytes and Zone Alarm thats good enough.

Forget about the stupid anti virus software.

Well, you need to watch and I recommend all three. Today I looked into a virus that was sent out on my friends Facebook. It as a trojan and it also redirected any links on her Facebook page to a porn site. Needless to say she did not want to send links to porn sites. At any rate, I clicked the link and ESET AV caught the virus and Windows Defender also recognized the threat. Malewarebytes did not but I did use Malewarebytes to remove the offender. I recommend all three for good protection. As a side note, my Norton AV on my daughters computer caught the virus and shut it out. Avast on my Vista machine caught the virus and shut it out. Avast is free and is not intrusive at all. It updates at sign in and sits quietly until needed.