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Bleg: Virus Protection

What’s a good light weight anti-virus program? Use Norton at the office and it sucks. Like all Norton products, it’s bloatware. It bogs down the system all the time. At home, I have AVG Free. It has, apparently, turned into spamware itself, always installing its tool bar in my web browser.

What do you use?

63 Responses to “Bleg: Virus Protection”

  1. CarlS Says:

    Try Comodo. Free. Download the CIS (Comodo Internet Suite) or just the A-V portion.

    http://www.comodo.com/

  2. Glen Says:

    Once you go MAC. You will never go back and your virus problems will dry up.

  3. ShaunJudy Says:

    I like NOD32 Myself have never got anything on any of my machines. Best by far. Norton is complete garbage. AVG use to be good along time ago.

  4. bwm Says:

    I use Kaspersky on three computers

    This and nothing else. Kaspersky is the best.

  5. Jason Says:

    I use a combination of Avast and Anti-Vir. Both are free.

  6. Gunner Says:

    Avast for me. I swear by it.

  7. Bela Oxmyx Says:

    I like Avira. Free version has one popup (solely to advertise its paid popupless version) per day.

  8. Pete S. Says:

    I use Sophos on my Windows computers. It’s provided for free by the university. If you’re interested, contact me by email and I’ll send you the installer and the update URL (no other credentials are needed).

    For non-free protection, NOD32 is pretty awesome, cheap, and lightweight.

  9. Brandon Says:

    I have been using NOD32 for a while, on both my personal computer and my clients computers. Never had a problem and it is very lightweight. You can get the cd off Newegg.com for $29.99. Or you can check it out on their website http://www.eset.com

  10. _Jon Says:

    I use AVG Free and tell it to not install the toolbar.

  11. Rustmeister Says:

    I have AVG on one and Avast! on the other. Both work fine for me.

    I also use Malwarebytes and Spybot SD on a regular basis.

  12. drstrangegun Says:

    1 – the free version of McAfee that Comcast doles out, concurrent with:
    2 – Avast. Love it, wish I could press for approval here.
    3 – Vista with rights management cranked all the way up. I don’t mind much the pauses to approve, when once or twice I’ve been asked to approve things I didn’t ask for.
    4 – IE8, make the upgrade. IE8 sandboxes itself, items inside can’t really touch anything else on teh system but that running IE8 process.
    5 – run behind a NAT and don’t DMZ it, route the ports.
    6 – windows firewall in use.

    Sounds like a lot but 90% of it is just leaving factory “high” security settings alone. My infection rate over the last 2 years? 0. no exploits, no trojans, no hacks, no cracks, no loggers, no toolbars or hijaackers, nothing on these two vista boxen at all, but they’ve tried 4 times. Avast caught every one.

    Murphy states that when I get home, I’ll have to clean up a viral infection though…. jinxy.

  13. Manish Says:

    I’ll throw in a plug for MAC as well..converted two years ago and haven’t looked back. I have a Windows partition to run Quicken, but thats about all I use Windows for.

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