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I've been using Avira Free for a while on all my machines. It's very unobtrusive and uses very little resources. I'm also a diehard fan of Zone Alarm. Once you get your programs set up, it's not too annoying.

I wear a condom when I'm on the computer.

Rick, does that help?

When you're on the computer, or when you're ON the computer? I would imagine it would protect the computer in the second case, but I now have to go wash my brain out with borax.

I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials now, but historically I haven't even used an anti-virus program. I've only gotten viruses a couple of times over the years, and I was thankfully able to get rid of the viruses by temporarily installing an anti-virus program then uninstalling it immediately afterward. Well, one of the viruses required finding the right program that could deal with the specific virus, but that was the only hiccup. I guess that's the problem with trying to choose one anti-virus program. If you encounter a virus it can't deal with yet, you need to install another program, anyway.

Very true. FYI, everyone, the best tool I've seen for dealing with the fake antivirus type viruses (if you have a program that says you need to enter your credit card to get rid of a virus, uh, use your brain...) is Malwarebytes. It doesn't do much else that I know of, but it takes out those bastards like nothing else.

AVG user here on our Windows XP, Vista64 and Windows 7 machines. Overall very happy with it after using it for a couple of years. I've heard other liking Avast too.

I will have to check out Malwarebytes though. My oldest daughter (heck, my mother for that matter too) seems to like finding the sites that put spyware/malware on to the computer.

I haven't ever tried the paid version with active protection; we use it as a single run utility.

The smart IT guy at work, not the ones in control also recommends Malware, and found a very nasty bug and did a "bugs be gone" with it on my work machine. I have a copy at home now.

I use Bitdefender as well, no complaints

Mel

ESET. small footprint. fast. works for me.