Which Anti-Virus do You Use?

I've relied entirely on freebies over many years. Used Trend, AVG and Avast in the past. Currently relying on on MSE. Like your typical geek I visit many places which might be regarded as potential threats! I've found them all totally reliable. I also do a regular sweep with both spybot and malware bytes. I also use Acronis True Image to maintain an up to date image of my system drive so always have the option of full recovery to a clean state. I've sampled the various bloatware packages and rejected them because of their resource hogging and also because of the nanny control which they impose.

@ bobalazs: "Since im using norton ghost 12 i'm not worried about viruses anymore." Like my use of Acronis, this is a good solid bit of insurance for recovering from an infection but it does represent only a cure and does nothing to prevent the threat to your data security whilst infected. I'd recommend you have some antivirus installed to help you prevent infection rather than just cure it after the event.

MSE has always served me well since it's release. It does a great job of scanning, updates daily (sometimes twice), and I highly recommend it to all.

But as I've always stated, having MBAM is a good second scanner to use in addition to MSE. Also, I've recently discovered ESET online scanner, it does well, too.

I've never paid for an AV during my computing lifetime, and never will. There are too many free options to need to pay to keep your computer secure. The first option is the one between the chair and the keyboard, no AV/Malware program takes the place of safe computing.

Cat

I certainly prefer Eset Smart Security, fast, effective, install and forget. Of the freeware good stuff I'd go MSE.

Absolutely agee on both counts with cybercore.

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I started using Bullguard internet security, i stumbled on a 180 day trial, so far im content with it.
Not many false positives, excellent customer support.
I sent in thru their av, a false positive, got a reply within the hour, and got all fixed within the next update.
Thats what i call customer service.
It also fares well on the detection rate, tho some 64 bit system users had problems i heard.
I'm out.

I use AVG 2011 and Malwarebytes.

used Avast a long time ago, now I don't use any of these kind, somehow it got hard for me to cach a pretty dangerous virus, and even if I do, I still have few partitions for backup systems, so nothing to worry about for me

Originally Posted by Road Warrior

I use AVG 2011 and Malwarebytes.

What do you think of AVG 2011?
I found it be even heavier on system resources than 2009.

I using Avast Internet Security works great for me. Low footprint and no signs for any threat so far.