Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:08 pm by elbowmacaroni
Well, here's some more striaght dope then...
Symantec and McAfee will both do a decent job of protecting your computer from viruses, HOWEVER, they are both some of the worst resource hogs, and also are well known to be the bane of the existence of many a person who has to provide support to people use use these products. The one form CA seems to fall into this category as well from other friends I have in the industry, but I've not personally had to deal with it.
AVG is does a good job, I tend to recommend to my clients to get the paid version as they are businesses and that way they get support for the product. That said, the free version works fine and I use it on all my personal machines but it's not all that expensive for the paid version and if you want the non-virus malware protection you need the paid version. personally I use spybot S&D for non-virus malware protection, so I don't worry about getting the paid version of AVG. Malwarebytes I've heard very good things about from others who use it and are also IT guys as I am. This applies to both the free and paid versions. Avira if you get the paid version is sorta good, but the big issue with it is the high false positive rate, you really have to disable some of the more interesting features to not get alot of annoyances where it will tell you something you know for a fact is clean is actually a virus. And the free version is the most annoying thing on earth with endless nag screens all the time in addition to all the false positives.
I wouldn't trust a "review" from cnet or pcmag... perhaps that's just me...
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