Antivirus

[sonic]

I am thinking about installing antivirus software just reinstalled etc...
But I play alot of games and trim down my system as much as possible. How many of you use antivirus and what would you reccomend for the smallest footprint I have searched and most say Nod32 but trying to get your ideas.

[Wii]

AVG free + Spybot + Adaware = happy computer.

[a1]

AVG free + Spybot + Adaware = happy computer.

Agreed.

[Alejandro Rhodes]

I used to be an AVG user , but I rather this (just another option)

http://www.free-av.com/

[Groundbound1]

I used to be an AVG user , but I rather this (just another option)

http://www.free-av.com/

Same here. Avira hasn't let me down yet, and it seems lighter on resources than any other FREE antivirus software I've tried. It's real time protection is really hard to beat. That, with Ad-Aware and Spy-bot S&D as mentioned above, you should be pretty well covered.

[Al_Fallujah]

Has anyone else here tried Avast?

I am running it now, and am grateful for the day I dumped McAfee.

[lunitic_8]

Get McAfee it works great

[Wii]

Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

[Mushroom_Farmer]

Best Free AV

AVG vs. Avast

Gizmo's Top Picks

[lunitic_8]

Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?

[Wii]

Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?

Poor scanning, doesn't recognize all threats, slow startup, high system resources and can corrupt your system on uninstall. This comes from personal experience.

[lunitic_8]

Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?

Poor scanning, doesn't recognize all threats, slow startup, high system resources and can corrupt your system on uninstall. This comes from personal experience.

oh, its been fine with me and its reconized all threats and removes them for me

[Al_Fallujah]

I had extreme performance cuts with McAfee.
And it missed a trojan once on me.
No warning, no message. Nothing.

After loading it, I immediately noticed it took twice as long to start up.

That was all on my XP OS. Ran much better after I ditched it.
For my Vista (64 bit) set up, I just stuck with Avast. No real complaints there.

[NickN]

I am thinking about installing antivirus software just reinstalled etc...
But I play alot of games and trim down my system as much as possible. How many of you use antivirus and what would you reccomend for the smallest footprint I have searched and most say Nod32 but trying to get your ideas.

you can listen to who ever you want to and remember that most people think with thier wallets


if you take no other advice in this thread, take this:

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR if you know what your doing


In that, you decide


The 2 PhD's in me and the experience I have tell me that NOD32 AV (not the security suite product, just the AV) are all I need and that I can fly with it enabled and not ever have a single problem

[stevehookem]

Have none of you read Nick's amazing FSX set-up thread? Shame Shame!

Gotta go with NOD32.