which is the best anti virus?

United States
January 12, 2007 11:43am CST
hi. i m confused. i have used many anti viruses, but i m not able to understand that which is the best. norton or macafee or nod32 or avast or pccilin. plz guide me.
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@jojopuff (520)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I have found that AVG (a free program) does the best job for me. I don't know where my husband got it from, but I'm sure you could search for "AVG Free edition" and you would be able to get it. It's very user-friendly and does a great job with its anti-virus protection. Hope that helped!
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• United States
12 Jan 07
thanx a lot for that adivce. i ll really think about that. i hope that u must have usd this anti virus n it must b a good one. thnx again.
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@1986ankush (1241)
• India
12 Jan 07
i think norton is best in all ways
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• United States
12 Jan 07
hey thanx for that info. but i have heard that norton slows down ur pc. so plz tell me any other software. thax once again.
• Romania
12 Jan 07
Norton antivirus is a joke..
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• India
19 Jan 07
norton is a useless one...i m sorry to say this...but is really a useless one..it eats up the resources and has one of the slowest scanning engine in the world....and has not detected many of the viruses when i had used it earlier....and even if it detects, it will just say it cant quarantine or delete many a time
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• India
12 Jan 07
for home use norton is the best ,lesser hassles than mcafee..
• United States
12 Jan 07
thanx for that information. but i really dont think so. norton slows down ur pc. thats y i have stopped using norton.
• Romania
12 Jan 07
Don't use norton,nod32,mcafee they don't nothing.I had alot of viruses some made by me and i tested some antivirus programs.The one above are not good of anything,norton tell's you that you have a virus but does nothing to destroy it
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@ckjaga (38)
• India
13 Jan 07
i have been using nod32 for a year now and have no regrets using it for a lot of reasons : 1. uses very little system resources 2. virus definition update files r of very small size and it is updated regularly (even a year of updates occupy only 6 mb) 3. detects viruses even if it not in its database (though cannot remove it unless u update but quarantines it anyhow) Note that it will not detect a file which behaves like a virus but not a virus.. that is why it does detect dummy viruses used for testing some antivirus prg.. and update it regularly.. Also it does not have a very beautiful interface like other anitvirus software
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• Romania
19 Jan 07
Nod32,bitdefender,RAV are all made in Romania but the earlyer versions were not so good,i don't know the recent versions are like.Nod32 is freeware so don't expect much from him as is not very good (if it were good the probabli they would sell it to you,not give for free) and Bit Defender 10 is super and has been bought by F-Secure.
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• Romania
12 Jan 07
Kaspersky is the best,second is F-Secure and third is Bit defender 10 (but only 10,version 9 is not so good)
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• United States
12 Jan 07
thanx for that advice. i ll definately try f secure. i have used bit defender. it didnt gave me good results. i think that it was version9. i ll try version10 this time. thanx once again.
@shankru85 (131)
• India
19 Jan 07
www.pcworld.com/article/124475-1/article.html take a look at this but personally i feel kaspersky rocks.........
• United States
27 Jan 07
hey thanx brother. for that help. i ll really try it n hope that i ll get good results. thanx once again.
@limo_2005 (258)
• India
22 Jan 07
I would recommend Panda Internet Security - the best antivirus program out there.
• Nigeria
12 Jan 07
AVG and it is free.. you pught to try it.. it will most likely solve your problem.
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• United States
12 Jan 07
thanx for u advice. i ll try avg. i hope that it ll solve my problem. thanx once again.
• Malaysia
27 Jan 07
hi..don't get confuse. i did use many versions of antivirus since past few years. i used norton,pcclin,skypers,mcafe,avg including the most extremely expensive :sophos. from my experiences the best anti virus goes to AVG. you must be in wondered, why? the reason is the total size of AVG is small and for sure it won't slow down your computer. but please find the latest free edition on AVG and the AVG anti spyware. it's very easy and very effective to deal with those virus,worms,and trojan.
@RaCcOn (209)
• Portugal
24 Jan 07
Avast and AVG!Freeee
• United States
27 Jan 07
hey bro thax for reply. i also think same. avast is the best. i have used it many times. thanx for reply once again.
• Italy
12 Jan 07
I tryed different anti viruses: norton, f-secure, avg and others. I didn't have any problem whith these ones, so the one I prefer is AVG "free edition", because is free. I'm using it from two years without problems and lots of my friende use it too.
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• United States
12 Jan 07
hey thanx for that advice. many others had also adviced me avg. i ll definately try it.
@aelyus (634)
• Romania
19 Jan 07
i work as an IT engineer and all my mates said Kaspersky Antivirus is the best, but it requires a lot of your memory. Another good antivirus is Norton Antivirus.
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@jnr1234 (129)
• Malaysia
19 Jan 07
I suggest McAfee Internet Security. It's an all in one protection and securty software in aspect of Spam, virus, trojan, spyware, hacker, firewall and other advance tecnology protection system. I used it for years now and i found it to be very powerfull. I also been testing other security software such as Avast, AVG, ZoneAlarm, and Norton. AVG is quite unefective as it owns by a small company and doesn't protect you from hackers. ZoneAlarm and Norton uses a lot of memory giving you a very slow performance. Furthermore, there are quite irritating when they detect wrongly. Avast is quite good for those who want free and reliable protection software. What are you using now? How is the performance?
• United States
22 Jan 07
well what i know about my experience is to download mcafee and then scan and then remove the viruses after that remove mcafee because it will tell you that ur own files are viruses when they are not or you can just turn it off from the sytem tool bar and then if you have a virus again turn it back on
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@smughal (1026)
• Pakistan
26 Jan 07
zonealarm - zonealarm security
i using zonealarm security suit.. and it is great.. it is also recommended by E-gold..u can try it im sure u wont regret.
• India
26 Jan 07
I am using AVG7.5 from free.grisoft.com .it's a pretty good antivirus which runs on minimal system resources. They keep updates constantly and that irritates me sometimes though. But I would recommend you to use this anitvirus packeage...
@aelyus (634)
• Romania
26 Jan 07
antivirus - instalation kit of Kaspersky
work as an IT engineer and all my mates said Kaspersky Antivirus is the best, but it requires a lot of your memory. Another good antivirus is Norton Antivirus.
• India
26 Jan 07
hi dude i use AVG anti virus i think its good to use and can protect ur pc
@radesh (694)
• India
26 Jan 07
i think macafee is better..i'm using it from past 1 year
• India
26 Jan 07
I think Norton is the best