A good antivirus program?

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thread starter CJcarl Apr 17 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Which is a good anti-virus program to use because there are a lot of programs out there that i don't know which one i good so please help me decide.

nerdbomer 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Free or payed? For Payed ones I've heard very good things about F-Secure. For free your best bet is Avast!, Avira, or COMODO.

ShiroNoYami 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Free: Avast!, Avira, COMODO Paid: NOD32, Kaspersky, Avira Pro

CJcarl 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

paid anti-virus, cos i tried AVG which doesn't really help me that much because of the false Trojan etc.

icemage07 Apr 17 2009 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

nerdbomer said: " For Payed ones I've heard very good things about Kaspersky. For free your best bet is Avast!, Avira, or COMODO." fixed. F-secure kinda sucks and here's why (he tried to configure the settings, but could not do so because of the many pop ups from F-secure "blocking" the same malware over, and over again. the system was almost unresponsive to the point where he could not even load f-secure, let alone configure it compare this to Avira or Kaspersky)

nerdbomer 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

icemage07 said: " fixed. F-secure kinda sucks and here's why " Don't fix me, alright. That video doesn't say much, except that some guy with a horrible resolution managed to get F-Secure to block everything as far as I could tell.

skye09 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

F-Secure sucks because its overprotective ( only watched the first 15 secs mind you ) ? Of course, the reviewer likely completely left out the fact that F-Secure likely allows a custom protection settings. Also, for the record, I notice you didnt "fix" Comodo, which I had the same issue with until I okd all of my programs through it.

nerdbomer 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

skye09 said: "F-Secure sucks because its overprotective ( only watched the first 15 secs mind you ) ? Of course, the reviewer likely completely left out the fact that F-Secure likely allows a custom protection settings. Also, for the record, I notice you didnt "fix" Comodo, which I had the same issue with until I okd all of my programs through it." Exactly. I could probably make COMODO do exactly what F-Secure did. If a program allows custom settings, it's not hard.

CJcarl 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Also i am looking that doesn't hog the cpu resources like Norton. From what i read, through google, they said that Bitdefender, kaspersky, trend micro is quite good. any comment?

skye09 04/17/09 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

If you're willing to pay, Kaspersky is your best be with NOD32 as a close second. If you want free, Avira has my vote.