antivirus confusion.

I find avast reliable. I used to use it. I find it better than norton as norton used to be a big resource hog in the past, dunno how is it now. I found a good detection rate in avast. Also, considering the recent norton's rootkit controversy, it would be good to choose avast over it.
BTW post in correct section if you expect answers to your questions.

avsta and avg are Great freeware antivirus.
stick with them ! no need to really pay for one !
also download and use a anti-spyware like adaware or spybot.

saurabh.sauron said:

i got realy confused after seeing so many antivirus's. i want to ask if avast! is really reliable? is it better than norton?

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None can beat Norton Internet Security.Even though it take's some space it work's fine.many people say that it's a slow one.But when u go on use it u won't feal that i use it for 3 year's......

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And none of the antivirus give's all the feature's.........

Well i just wanna know which AV is the least resource hogger?? Currently i am under the impression that its Panda AV. If there is any AV thats faster and has an average protecing capability plz tell me

sujithtom said:

Well i just wanna know which AV is the least resource hogger?? Currently i am under the impression that its Panda AV. If there is any AV thats faster and has an average protecing capability plz tell me

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Why don't u wan't 100% protection???????

b'coz i am sure by PC won't be constantly under attack

avg and nod32 r said to leave the lowest memory footprint. bitdefender, i rate highly; but its freeware version doz not give fulltime protection, it can only act as a on-demand scanner.

AVG light on system??? I don't think so. I have used AVG 6.x and it hogged my system a lot..

not again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vote for avast! its awsome

Always using Kaspersky and will My antivirus was never infected my any virus unlike others except Kaspersky

dude virus what does your antivirus shows when u sit infront of computer???

My experience with NOD32 was that it was the root cause of all the hangs my system has started to get now-a-days. After using KAV for a reeeeeallly long time I thought of to give NOD a shot but that AV was just too heavy for my system given that KAV used to run nicely on my system. When I checked I saw that NOD also took up the same RAM as much as KAV. Now which ver u ppl were using I dunno but my NOD was eating up almost 20 MB RAM. Its startup was painstakingly slow and it used to frequently hang my machine. See I'm not starting any war o anything this is just my personal experience and hence I just thought to shar it with ya ppl/

Does'nt this thread belong in Software Troubleshooting?.. *Calls for a mod*

I found avast a good antivirus and it is easy to use and uses less memory. Currently i have installed Ez trust antivirus and it doesnt seem good. I will switch back to avast now.

i use McAfee and it rocks

What the resources will do if there is no system....taken away by any virus
Play very safe.... I prefer Norton

McAfee's pirated version is hard to get

I m using McAfee and it will work fine

i am using avast for few years with little viruses

As per my experinence Avast is lot better than Norton in terms of virus detection and system load

And according to me AntiVir is better than Avast

Avast rulez. Norton is a sys hog

I use avast and AVG for the last 5 months and no virus ( if any , rarely) goes undetected till now.

Used Norton first: Res. Hog. Very Few Viruses.
Used Avast then: Light. Many Viruses.
Using Zone Alarm: A bit heavy but no viruses.

zone alarm's av sux , only itz firewall is good

avast is much better than norton. norton is a system hog.

i dont know about kaspersky but i am in LAN in my college with virus attacks at 10MBps!!!!. i get almost 20 attacks per day ( thanx to some smart ppl with no antivirus) and thanks to avast i am protected till date.