Which Anti-Virus do You Use?

There's a number of different AV program on the market today, and I thought it could be a good controversial thread to create..

Vote and post why you like the anti-virus, if you selected "other" make sure to tell us the name of the one you're using.

I, myself have been switching around a lot lately.. Started with Microsoft Security Essentials but removed due to some strange problem it was causing with my disk IO at login. From there, I moved (back) to AVG since I received a free 1-year professional licence, but found the same result: it's been a resource hog every since version 8.

I also use Spybot S&D but not much after descovering Malwarebytes. I used AVAST before moving to MSE and haven't had any problems yet.

Years ago I used to juggle between Kaspersky and ESET Nod32. In the end the hammer came down in favour of ESET. Probably at the time for no better reason than, for me, the UI was far more user friendly. I did try AVG 8.0 once. Got uninstalled faster than it installed! Back to Nod. Also have Malwarebytes' running in the background.

I ended up going back to MSE after reinstalling AVG 2011 today - such an immediate negative impact on system performace. From boot to ready took over 4 minutes!

I need to edit the poll as I've forgotten a few options.

I went to Avast years ago. Got fed up with Norton and Mcaffee and their bloat. I tried AVG and ran into a problem, it froze PC if mouse went over a file with SP2 for XP or the row of files and spent several minutes scanning it. Their forum seemed a bit snooty and unhelpful so I switched to Avast.
Joe

The worst of the bunch, stay away - AVG, anything Norton/Symatnec

The best - Kaspersky (I use, integrated in Zone Alarm Extreme), ESET NOD32 (if updated to latest), MSE (the only a/v that can not and does not cause bsods, which includes all.)

I have been a pretty long time user of AVG, but recently removed it and switched to MSE at TorrentG's suggestion.

AVG was the best on XP. Apparently not so friendly on Win7.

Wow, not a lot of options... We're missing 80% of the rest of commercial anti-viruses.
Also i would add a "none" option to the post as well.
Since im using norton ghost 12 i'm not worried about viruses anymore.

Originally Posted by PearlRock

I have been a pretty long time user of AVG, but recently removed it and switched to MSE at TorrentG's suggestion.

AVG was the best on XP. Apparently not so friendly on Win7.

Every since version 8 (now version 10) things have just kept gettting more bloated.

Originally Posted by bobalazs

Wow, not a lot of options... We're missing 80% of the rest of commercial anti-viruses.
Also i would add a "none" option to the post as well.
Since im using norton ghost 12 i'm not worried about viruses anymore.

Please don't hesitate to give me more suggestions, as a moderator I have the ability to edit the poll.