[jr2]

Hmm, which AV software do you use?  Choose up to three.  (like, at work, or if you use two of them or whatnot)  (although generally, you shouldn't use more than one anti-virus)
EDIT: Added <<none>> to the bottom of the list. 

Wikipedia list & comparison of AV & features

Review of some free Anti-Virus software

Might be useful, gives pros and cons of each one.

[Dark Hunter]

AVG Free for myself. I like it because:

A) it's free and
B) it runs quietly in the background until something requiring user attention happens, which is rare. If mundane pop-ups do occur, they are small notices in the corner that disappear after a few seconds... not big windows that suddenly appear over whatever it is you are doing.

My father uses Norton on all other computers in the house, which I do not like at all (although I do find it somewhat funny that Vista doesn't allow it to fully run without admin permission).

[colecampbell666]

AVG now, but getting NOD32 in a few days. Used to be stuck with Norton.

[Jeff Vader]

avast! 4 Home Edition for reasons I've stated in the other recent anti-virus-related threads. (Used to be stuck with F-Secure products).

[Thor]

I use a combo of AVG Free and Zonealarm Firewall (not AV though) to keep my pc healthy.  seems to do the trick

[Stormkeeper]

AVG Free atm. Norton is evil. Norton lags my comp.

[Ghostavo]

None...

[DREDHAWK]

i use Norton AntiVirus

[colecampbell666]

How can we hack him????? It'll be impossible! HE'S GOT NORTON!!!!

[BlackDove]

NOD is the only answer, everything else on that list is fail.

Tested for truth.

[DREDHAWK]

I use Norton Anti Virus because  its what came with the computer when i got it.  i never was to warred about virus and bugs the world wont end if my computer get fried bye a virus

[Whitelight]

Norton antivirus here to.

Works for me. 

[IceFire]

I've banished Norton's products from being any more than 10 square meters from my computers at all times.  The bloat and performance destroying virus like software has crippled far too many computers for me to be able to recommend, use, or even want to be involved with it.  I convinced someone that the reason they have a slow computer was Norton...they removed it, put on AVG Free, and were surprised at the huge performance boost that they suddenly achieved.

[Fury]

Indeed. It is ironic that OEM manufacturers bundle worst kind of AV's with their computer. Norton is one of the worst.

If NOD32 would have a (non-crippled) free version available, I'd probably use it. But since it doesn't, I use avast Home which has served me loyally many years now.

[Nuclear1]

McAfee and a wonderful free gem called MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.

[Whitelight]

I've banished Norton's products from being any more than 10 square meters from my computers at all times.  The bloat and performance destroying virus like software has crippled far too many computers for me to be able to recommend, use, or even want to be involved with it.  I convinced someone that the reason they have a slow computer was Norton...they removed it, put on AVG Free, and were surprised at the huge performance boost that they suddenly achieved.

Wow, really... I haven`t had any preformance loss, but, on the other hand,  i`ve got a buddy who said the same thing as IceFire. Oh well....

I can`t speak for everyone, but i`m sticking with Norton

[DREDHAWK]

Iv been using Norton for years on my  computers i haven't had in permanence lose or problem.   Ill just stick with Norton to

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Althought I still have it on one computer Norton should be classified as a virus as far as I'm concerned.  It takes over your computer like it owns it and does what it wants when it want even when you specifically shut it off.  I had it hitting my firewall for updates 3 times a second when it was fully up to date and I had automatic updates disabled.  It also thinks FS2 is a worm and blocks it.  I'm talking just the antivirus no firewall or internet suite.  What the hell is it doing even looking at my ports not alone blocking them.  NAV2004 was the last good version.  Anything 2005 on is a POS. 

[Dark Hunter]

I think the problem is that Norton was written for casual computer users. That's why it takes so much control. These people probably wouldn't even know what a port is, much less how it affects their computer's internet connection.

So for people who do actually know something about what they're doing (ie, us) it just gets irritating. We know how to configure a security program to defend against external threats yet leave things open for our own programs. The casual user doesn't, so Norton does it for them, with a "better safe than sorry" attitude.

I would like to stress that I am not trying to imply that everyone who likes Norton is computer-ignorant. I just believe it was written with computer-ignorant people in mind. Like my old programming professor told us: always write your program with the assumption that the user doesn't really know what they are doing.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

My big problem with that is even if you tell it to allow FS2 it won't until you go in and manually configure the worm protection or turn it off.  If you change versions of the exe say from one 3.6.10 build to another it will ask you again but won't work until you delete the old permissions and add them manually again.  There is also no way of disabling it without uninstalling it.  At least with the 2004 version you could take it out of the registry and run manual scans when you wanted to.  Another perfect example of a program that thinks it's companies software should be the only things running on your system. 

Sad part is I only bought it so I could boot off the CD and run scans when I get handed a computer with a virus.  Guess what?  The newer versions don't even allow that.  Ghost is the only good program they have left an only if you buy the corporate version which means 5 user license even if you only have need for one.