What Antivirus software would you recommend?

[Toumeng]

Discuss.

[jbutton]

Move to Ubuntu and ditch the antivirus.  That's a better solution.

If you need specific Windows application, run them under VirtualBox - which gives you sandbox protection.  Whatever happens in VirtualBox stays in VirtualBox.  Speed is actually pretty fast in VirtualBox.

[vangst]

Why install antivirus software when deep freeze will say goodbye to all viruses?
If you’re constantly worried about viruses, spywares, malwares, and etc, then consider buying deep freeze.
Once you install the application on your system, you can kiss all viruses goodbye.

If you have multiple partitions, it gets even better. You can protect all drives or just pick a specific one, and save all your documents to a non-protected one.
Let’s say you have three drives (C, D, and E) and your OS is installed on C, then install deep freeze, protect drive C and don’t protect drive D and E.
Save all your stuff to drive D or E and they will not get erased when you reboot your system.

If you don’t like deep freeze then you can install antivirus software. I dislike Symantec – Definitely heavy and will slow down your system.
McAfee is OK. I use AVG…totally free. It’s light on your system and comes with anti-spyware.

[beester]

Why install antivirus software when deep freeze will say goodbye to all viruses?
If you’re constantly worried about viruses, spywares, malwares, and etc, then consider buying deep freeze.
Once you install the application on your system, you can kiss all viruses goodbye.

If you have multiple partitions, it gets even better. You can protect all drives or just pick a specific one, and save all your documents to a non-protected one.
Let’s say you have three drives (C, D, and E) and your OS is installed on C, then install deep freeze, protect drive C and don’t protect drive D and E.
Save all your stuff to drive D or E and they will not get erased when you reboot your system.

If you don’t like deep freeze then you can install antivirus software. I dislike Symantec – Definitely heavy and will slow down your system.
McAfee is OK. I use AVG…totally free. It’s light on your system and comes with anti-spyware.

If that's your deal, you can always just use system restore. I used to work for a College and Deep Freeze was what we used.  They didn't want people saving stuff on the hard drives. Why buy a program when you already have one like it included in your os and it doesn't mess with your data, just programs that were installed.

[AOZ]

If that's your deal, you can always just use system restore. I used to work for a College and Deep Freeze was what we used.  They didn't want people saving stuff on the hard drives. Why buy a program when you already have one like it included in your os and it doesn't mess with your data, just programs that were installed.

why buy any programs at all if you area using Windows!!   for any ms windows xp or newer.... just download windows steady state aka WSS, free from microsoft!!   works just like deep freeze... what's even bettter is... yeah.... it's free!!   and you can setup updates to auto update with WSS turned on.... including ur antivirus updates... w/o having to freeze and unfreeze. 

As for antiviruses?   why not just go with what's free for home users.... there's avg and avast among others.   i run avg at work and it's smooth... doesn't slow down or freeze the systems like others.... ie symantec/mcafee.   

[mouacy]

Free AVG. Light and doesn't user much resources. Function well enough to detect and remove virus.

[Sk3]

Don't know how much shopping you do but I'm subscribed to ConsumerReport s.org for $20/year and it helps a ton.



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You can check Buy.com for other products but I recommend Norton or Kaspersky but in this case Norton is the better buy, Norton isn't like what it used to be where it took up too much system resources and didn't help much, it's a lot better now.



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[mouacy]

If you surf the web safe, you won't get trojan. Most computers that get virus or trojans are usually used to do some of the following:

1. downloading or sharing illegal software or music or movies
2. surfing porn sites
3. visiting scam sites

Everytime someone calls me to fix their PC, it usually turns out that the user is visiting a site he/she is not supposed to.

If you stay away from such activities, you do not even need anti-virus on your pc.