What AV software do you use?

[little_scrapper]

I am absolutely astonished that the OP would ask and have a vote about AV and NOT list the two best AV progs on the planet. ESET and Kerpersky. How can you take an AV poll without them. Phht

[Soulburner]

I wondered the same, but I didn't bother to add to the poll pages later, because the votes have already been counted and you can't re-vote.

[ZL1Killa]

voted other.

ESET/NOD software.

our IT guys recommend it, our company uses it, and in the past 4 years I haven't had a single problem.
also recommend Malware Bytes anti malware. Blocks a LOT of IP addresses that are SPAM and crap.

[KoolDrew]

avast.

[ARC1450]

Symantec Endpoint Protection, Small Business Edition.

Have yet to get anything, so I can only assume it works.

[Circaflex]

I used to have NOD32 installed and had a paid subscription. That ran out and i get norton free from work. Does the job and is better than most people give it credit.

[RejZoR]

Norton was a bit crappy between 2004 and 2008. Mostly because it was slow as hell and its LiveUpdate part very unreliable and prone to failure. Then, after floods of complaints they started improving it. Version 2009 was much better, followed by version 2010 which proved to be one of the best on the market with very high scores in most of tests (perfromance and detection). The corporate versions were much better even before 2009.
Very similar to McAfee's enterprise offerings which were usually far beter than consumer ones.

[Snakebite1969]

Used to use AVG, but after I got a couple of viruses crashing the system I switched to Avast and never had a problem since.

[Toysoldier]

I am absolutely astonished that the OP would ask and have a vote about AV and NOT list the two best AV progs on the planet. ESET and Kerpersky. How can you take an AV poll without them. Phht

Well ... Kaspersky isn't the best A/V on the planet. period - In my opinion !!!!
I have used Kaspersky for little over a year until suddenly my rig started becoming unresponsive at times ... yes you guessed it kaspersky !! Up until that time I never had a problem with it, but after removing kaspersky and installing Avira (this is the second time I'm using Avira) I never looked back. Avira is so much lighter on system resources and has a better detection rate so it's a no brainer really.

[little_scrapper]

I have not seen any truely independant AV tests in over a year so I really cant say who is the best in the last year or two. I have heard that Norton has come a long way as is actually very good now. Where as a few years ago Norton and Mcafee were pointed and laughed at by companies like ESET.

I would like to see some recent detection tests by an "INDEPENDANT" source. If you have any links please post them.

I found this site: http://www.av-comparatives.org/compa...ummary-reports

And in this summary report they seem to think that Norton, ESET, and Kasper., are the overall winners. http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...ummary2009.pdf

I think its halarious that if you go to any of the AV companies web sites thay all claim themselves as the best one. hehe

[ARC1450]

Norton was a bit crappy between 2004 and 2008. Mostly because it was slow as hell and its LiveUpdate part very unreliable and prone to failure. Then, after floods of complaints they started improving it. Version 2009 was much better, followed by version 2010 which proved to be one of the best on the market with very high scores in most of tests (perfromance and detection). The corporate versions were much better even before 2009.
Very similar to McAfee's enterprise offerings which were usually far beter than consumer ones.

That's not saying much considering I have yet to run into a corporate McCrappy product that can't kill any machine it gets its fingers into. I shudder every time I have to put it on a server.

[Johnny87au]

Eset nod32 hands down, +malwarebytes

[YukonTrooper]

I used to use AntiVir in conjunction with COMODO Firewall, but I now use COMODO Internet Security (AV + firewall). While AntiVir is still considered tops when it comes to detection rate, I realized that almost any solution out there will fit my needs, so I decided to streamline my solution into one package. Also, I honestly don't see the point in buying AV software for personal use, as the top free stuff is just as good for this application.

[s1nykuL]

I use Avast, but only to scan untrusted downloads. I don't have any of it running in real time. I rely primarily on NoScript and Adblock Firefox extentions. I block flash and don't use any Adobe products. I use Foxit for PDF reading, but this too seems to share a lot of Adobe readers' vulnerabilities. If a site I do not know needs Javascript to work, then I will search again and find a site that doesn't use Javascript. It can be a pain enabling Javascript on a site by site basis, but not quite as much pain as perhaps having to re-install the OS. I don't use AV on any of my Linux machines or my LAMP server. If I feel I really must run untrusted code, I install or run the code on a virtual machine first. The last virus infection I had was the Saddam virus on my Amiga, so I am extremely lucky or my methods work.

The best Anti-virus solution is you. If a download is free, the chances are it isn't.

Edit: Forgot to add, I use ZoneAlarm, just the free firewall. It warns me of everything that tries to initiate outgoing connections and blocks all unrequested incoming connections. I have my wireless AP and router nailed down too.

[jstutman]

Nothing...Well Nod32 I just reinstalled the OS