Good Anti-Virus

[Brooksie]

What's a good, free, and doesn't use alot of processes anti-virus software?

 

[Luigi]

AVG all the way.

 

[Hatman]

Agreed

 

[Toxcity]

Common Sense.

 

[nathan]

u get what u pay for!

 

[llwyd]

u get what u pay for!

Too true. Something decent that is paid for WILL be far better to any free anti virus. I'm sure someone will disagree and say 'ooh i use AVG and haven't ever had a virus' - If it cant block it, you wont know you've got it.

Do you have a hardware firewall in action? If so then a simple firewall like Zone Alarm home security and a scanner like AdAware / Spybot S+D should keep you fairly sound

Obviously you may get unlucky and get a really nasty bugger and have to reformat but thats what backups are for Happened to me several times from going on dodgey websites i expect

 

[Pseudonym]

I use avast. I find it uses less processing power than AVG.

As far as the get what you pay for argument, i also have sophos AV which i install and scan with every now and then. That hasn't found anything missed by avast.

 

[Hatman]

Bit Defender 10 is always there Will be going to hat soonish as soon as my dad and bro agree as it can be used on 3 computers, so we can all chip in.

 

[mrapoc]

www.eset.co.uk

The only anti virus to get 100% on all virus bulletin tests

I swear by it

F-secure is supposedly pretty good too but nod32 still seems to be the industrys best

Dont skimp on your AV!

 

[equk]

I use AntiVir

It's free and has good protection aswell as quick updates. It also has active rootkit protection.

http://www.free-av.com/

Also some test results:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2135092,00.asp

 

[Brooksie]

Thanks for the links guy, I shall be having a look at these..

 

[mrapoc]

lol in that test symantec, avg and even panda scored higher??? I found them all crap tbh :|

Webwasher was the best? WTH is webwasher

 

[barginbin]

NOD 32 it is fantastic!!

 

[nathan]

lol in that test symantec, avg and even panda scored higher??? I found them all crap tbh :|

Webwasher was the best? WTH is webwasher

You should never base your decision on 1 companies review. Use a few of them and compare