Poll: What antivirus do you use?

[The Spectator]

Always sticked to Avast ever since a friend recommended it to me. Never had a virus.

 

[UPRC]

I've used AVG for a few years now, and I'm quite content with it.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

None, most antivirus "products" are as bad or worse than viruses. They make changes to your computer without your permission, they hog system resources when you are trying to do something else, and they prevent legitimate operations because they can't be configured properly.

Use firefox w/ adblock (ad servers are a major infection vector for browser exploits), don't run suspicious executables, and if you are paranoid occasionally run wireshark to sniff the traffic coming out of your machine during idle states.

Modern viruses try to add you to botnets so they are usually very polite to avoid detection.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I use to use Norton Antivirus on my old computer but that's a virus itself, I also use to use Spybot Search and Destroy (think that's what it was called)

 

[RBMidknight]

I stopped using Norton Antivirus when my Windows computer crashed and the Official Install Disc refused to Install. So I switched to AVG which was pretty good until I got a Mac laptop and now I use nothing. McAfee is installed on my work computer - not my choice - but it seems to get a lot of false-positives.

 

[TheSanityAssassin]

avast.

 

[SideSlyGuy]

I had AVG for a wile, then my World of Warcraft account got hacked, and I spent the next week getting it back, along with dropping AVG and getting McAfee back. So yeah, McAfee all the way.

 

[oldmanwynter]

why is Avast! antivirus not on this list?! It's the only pseudo-pirate based antivirus on the market! now, if only there was a good pseudo-ninja based antivirus...

 

[axle 19]

A combination of AVG. Mcafee, and super anitspyware

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

AVG Free, always have, always will.

 

[Koganesaga]

Pfft, all those newb programs, MEN use Avast, get a little scurvy with every scan.

Course, if I could find a free AVG again, I'd probably use that, but last I checked they started charging for their software.

 

[esperandote]

Microsoft Security Essentials, if not AVG.

 

[jpoon]

You didn't put Avast on there?

 

[Xeros]

AVG, and Spybot, with CCleaner to mop up everything else.

 

[Quick Ben]

AVG, and Spybot, with CCleaner to mop up everything else.

I have exactly the same setup, plus ZoneAlarm as firewall, but that's a different thing...

And I have to say that Norton is cumbersome and slightly evil, and McAfee is pure malware...

 

[WakeTheDead1]

im running a mac, hardly any viruses for macs so i dont bother, not had any trouble in the 4 years iv had it

 

[Sleekgiant]

AVG with Comodo Hopsurf Firewall