What Antivirus/Antimalware protection would you recommend the most?

Im very much a fan of MSE. Norton for a family PC. But ive never used nod32. Avast and AVG annoy me. And looking at Nod 32's site if this graph is to be believed it might well be worth your money. Thing of it is I can get 3-licenses of Symantec 360 for $20. Nod aint cheap, but with good reason.

Stinicker wrote: »

Pay or free I am not bothered, I just want something that actually works.

Would it be possible to add a poll to this thread to see what antivirus product people would recommend? Maybe include the following :

Avast
AVG
Avira
Bullguard
ESET (NOD32 or Smart Security)
F-Secure
Kaspersky
McAfee
Microsoft Security Essentials
Norton (360 Internet Security)
Panda
PC Tools
Sophos
Symantec
Threatfire
Trend Micro

Agree with the rest of the posters on NOD 32, the only piece of software I have ever bought, and well worth it!!

I've also used superantispyware in the past as well to clean up some stuff on my machine, found it picked up a lot of stuff that others hadnt

What Antivirus/Antimalware protection would you recommend the most?

Overheal wrote: »

Thing of it is I can get 3-licenses of Symantec 360 for $20. Nod aint cheap, but with good reason.

Use BitDefender myself. 5 licences for €50 or €60. Found that Nortons tended to slow down the PC's and laptops too much. Bitdefender doesn't, so have been using it for the past while. Family machine has it set as "novice" and don't see any pop-ups, have my PC set as "expert" so only things that I allow in or out get in, or leave. Any unknown task attempts to connect remotely, I usually block it, and check it before it leaves. Great for finding stuff that shouldn't be on my PC.

Had a problem with my 64bit Windows 7 machine and Bitdefender, but the email support team fixed it

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AVG - you get what you pay for. and since you get the free version, don't bet your system on it - it's great, but meh. Have given it to people, though, whose machines I fix.

Bullguard - avoid like the plague - prefer AVG to it. Also is most often used as in scams - ie: hacked to tell you to download X program to get rid of a vius it put on your system.

Kaspersky - not bad, but didn't like the interface.

McAfee - useless - always seemed to need other software to combat sh|te.

Microsoft Security Essentials - seems to be a good tool, give it to people whose machine I fix, rather than giving them AVG.

Norton (360 Internet Security) - slows everything down, esp laptops.

Symantec - See Norton above.

Bitdefender - use it at the mo. All-in-one package with virus, firewall, etc. Scans emails, tells me what pages are reported as unsafe in IE & Opera, deletes viruses in zipped files, allows me to stop anything from going in or out, alerts me to the fact if a file that is trying to connect to the net has been changed. Sure, lots of alerts, but no viruses for a while. Family machine is relatively virus free - don't have any issues with it. It's okay on the three laptops.

Point to note: father and sister saw a good speed increase in general laptop speed when I switched them from Nortons to BitDefender, and have less problems with BitDefender.

the 2009 norton really lightened up and ran super lean, then they added more features in 2010, and even more features in 2011. Its a bit of a hog again alright.