What are your peoples favorite antivirus?

Lady Fitzgerald said:

MSE and Avast free, in that order. I've used Avast free in the past with good results but it kept getting more and more feature rich so, on this machine, I tried MSE since it is so popular. I've been happy with it.

I used Avast Free for many years, but recently I felt a need to change, for the sake of change. So now I have MSE. I like the simple look and feel of it. Scans are fast too. Don't know how effective it is though. hmmm

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I tried a lot of Antivirus, but my favorite are Microsoft security essentials and avira.
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There are free and good. won't take up much space especially during playing games.

I feel MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) is the Best.

Like whs I have found NIS seems to cater for me and I have used quite a few versions back to about a decade on XP and now W7. Never caught any malware but it can be difficult to live with unless tamed sufficiently. I don't renew but shop around for the cheapest version of the one before the current and sometimes update to current and sometimes not. My NIS 2011 is due to expire shortly and I already have a 2012 version to continue with.

whs said:

I realize that there is no 'best' AV suite. But I trust Norton most. Never had a problem with it. On some systems I use MSE too. It seems to be OK although in the beginning I once caught a couple of nasties that SAS found.

In my computer club they were using free AVG and got a lot of trouble. They now switched to MSE and that seems to work well.

I've had nothing but problems with Symantec (makers of Norton) products with the exception of Ghost. Even getting rid of them was problematic.

My experience with MSE was similar. I had a couple of nasties slip through when I first set it up on my new notebook back in June which SAS picked up. Since then, MBAM hasn't picked up anything and SAS only finds the occasional supercookie, mostly from IMdb. I now avoid that site; the rare times I do use it, I immediately do a 1 day scan with SAS to clear out their *&^%$#@! cookie (I have cookies essentially turned off in my browser but IMdb parks their's in a different place instead of the cookie folder).