what is the best antivirus program?
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Of the products on the market today for straight antivirus protection, I'd have to go with PC World's recommendation, BitDefender.\n\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124475,00.asp\n\nThat, in combination with good antispyware, a firewall, and protection against registry alterations and rootkits, will provide your PC with layers of effective defense, as opposed to using a single product that, if compromised, would leave your PC defenseless.
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Norton IS cr@p!!!!! ALL the IT mags and newsletters are admitting to that now. They're exposing all the security holes in it.\n\nI go with Avast! AV by Alwil, Spybot Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware se Personal by Lavasoft. I've used this program cocktail ever since the programs came out with GREAT results!!! You can get all three for free from http://download.com\n\nAvast looks in a LOT more places than AVG. I quit using AVG when they went to the dogs a couple of years ago. Avast also give superior real-time protection. It also update a LOT more often(sometimes more than once a day), which is EXTREMELY important!!!\n\nSS&D looks for a MYRIAD of types of mal-ware and gives great real-time protection to your registry with it's "Tea Timer" function (found) in SS&D's 'Advanced Mode' under 'Tools'>'Resident'.\n\nAd-Aware free gives no real-time protection but is a nice compliment to SS&D. It can mop up anything (IF anything) SS&D just MIGHT miss.\n\nBTW:  I DID have eTrust's Zone Alarm suite .found out it "phoned home"..hated it! Tried Kaspersky, found out it was laden with a ROOTKIT.
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Here you have some good and free antivirus programs:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/\nGet one and also an anti-spyware program!
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Norton Antivirus is not a free program. It's not really the best virus scanner either. You might want to try AVG, Avast!, or Active Virus Shield. \nhttp://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5\nhttp://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
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Its Avast.... free first of all..\nthen it has all the best Security available with the really reputed ones...I am using it personally...\nIts just amazing...not a single Virus residing on my PC since last 4 years...Hope that Impresses u enough..
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avg antivirus has the best code you can ever see in a scanner, it's silent, it doesn't consume much cpu and memory, it doesn't slow down your work and it is simply optimized.\n\nfor any antivirus, since you'll keep it open and running all the time, this is one of the most important features.\n\navg is better than norton, f-prot, mcafee, kapersky or panda... it's simply great.
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Go to grisoft.com and download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.  It's a respectable AV Program, especially for free.  \n\nFor spyware, go to safer-networking.org and download SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.4.  This is also a free program, and very powerful.\n\nIf you're not looking to install software, go to trendmicro.com, and use their website-based scanner.
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"WHat would be the best virus protection software on the market today?"\n\nWhat does the word "best" mean to you? are you talking about protection, the ability to protect your computer? are you talking about what program that does not drain system resources? Are you talking about customer support?\n\nSee the problem is that... there is no Best AntiVirus. They all have pros and cons. Some are good, most free programs are crap (imho, and in my personal experience) and none are the best.\n\nhere is the "rock paper scissors" of the whole thing...\n\n-an AV that is the best at protecting your computer from viruses will hog system resources.\n-an AV that allows the computer to operate efficiently, will not have the best protection. \n\n-an AV that finishes a scan quickly will probably will not be the most efficient.\n-an AV that takes forever to finish a scan, probably will be the safest.\n\n-an AV that is free usually does not have customer support.\n-an AV that is not free usually does not have GOOD customer support...\n\nso I hope this helps... dont waste your time looking for the best antivirus/firewall program, just get a good one that is right for you that balances protection with efficiency\n\n@moodyboy\n\n"Kaspersky of couse and to all of you who still trust norton and macafee or those sort of sh**...now its time to open your eyes and do your pc or laptop a favor .... email me if u cannot afford to buy it..if u know what i mean. O_O! AVG REALLY SUCK DO NOT USE IT.... "\n\nI do not hold the same opinion as you, and I would go farther to even saying that you are void of any intelligence at all. I do not even think you know why you have such strong faith in "Kaspersky"? Because I know why you hold such a high program in high regards and denigrate other (obviously mainstream) programs. But do you?\n\nMaybe it is really "time [for you] to open your eyes". The reason "kaspersky" would be the "best" antivirus, is because very few (to no) virus writers would take the time to write script to defeat it. The biggest security threat to any if not all programs/av/os's is the more people that use it, the more people will try to edit/manipulate it. Hence, nortan is not as good an av (in your opinion) because.... it is main stream and most companies and consumers use it. By not only increasing the popularity of your av (and by my formula above, making it more "insecure"), you make yourself look... well for lack of a better word... retarted.\n\nAs for your offer of wares? First off, even those of little computer knowledge or experience can get programs off of the internet. You really must be kidding, not only would you be taking money away from the people who created the program that you so diligently promote, but you would even reduce the amount of time that company would put into creating security patches and updates (that is if they have patches and updates to begin with)...\n\nI bet you think you are a mad haxor huh? (getting wares off of the internets? and saying how detrimental it is for peoples to use nortan, and how “AVG REALLY SUCK[s(sic)] DO NOT USE IT” in caps… People like you make people like me laugh.\n\n\n!
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Here you have some good and free antivirus program:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/\nGet one!
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avg is the best antivirus.
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McAfee is the best. It automaticaly updates itself when ever the update is available on the internet. It means that ur always safe from all new viruses too.
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If you want free use AVAST or AVG for Antivirus (completely free)\n\nIf you want spyware use AdAware SE or Spybot S&E (completely free)
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Yes, it was rated the best antivirus by PCWorld.com.  Read the link below.
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Here you have some information:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/security/\nAnd here you have some good and free antivirus programs:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/
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As two other people have pointed out, AVG is great and free.\n\nJust stay away from Symantec --it slows down your computer tremendously.
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My personal favorite is Zonelabs ZoneAlarm Pro.. but just get the firewall pro.. they have different versions that come with antivirus and antispyware programs... but just the Firewall is all you really want from them.
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Well if you have some Money to spend you can choose between Norton and McAfee both of them are pretty good.\nThen there are others like quickheal.\nHowever if you dont want to spend money and want a good antivirus then try AVG antivirus.\nDownload it free from http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5\nThere are some others that you can get from download.com however I'll suggest you to go for any of the above mentioned ones as I've tried and tested all.