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I have removed thousands of nasty viruses on client computers. Mostly I use Avast boot scan, mbam, hitman pro and SAS.
I know many of you think Norton is crap, but in my experience, Symantec has turned themselves around. It isn't a memory hog anymore except for Norton 360, and it does a decent job of protecting my computer from viruses and helped me clean quite a few client computers. It seems effective against most viruses/malware.
I also use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Ad-Aware 2010.
From experience, I've learned not to trust freeware antivirus programs. I've been burned plenty by AVG, PC Tools etc. I have gotten viruses with them.
And, in m experience, all Windows based OS can get viruses.
Yes,my experience with NORTON was that they eat memory which i could say a lot.
And i've changed to AVG,but that time AVG was still inferior to virus and brontok past through.
Try NOD32 which works well but I need to update it online while my internet connection is slow
Changed to AVIRA free and use it until now(avira's very sensitive especially to patch file etc)
One virus. Destroyed my HDD and was what caused my fascination with computers. Since then no major ones, but the odd little one that was quickly found and eliminated before it did anything (by my anti-virus)
Over approx. 8 yrs I've been infected maybe four times -- usually intercepted by Avast and/or resolved with a System Restore, and on one occasion a complete reinstall was necessary. The latter was partly my fault as I deleted the boot system files in Windows ME during the recovery from the infection