Windows 7 compatible Antivirus

Im using Eset Nod32 right now...Works Perfect

From experience i have found avast to be very good with windows xp.
Therefore i am happy to use it with windows 7.
I did have to create a firewall rule before windows would let the program update though.

I'm using antivir free , Isn't everyone

reasoning : It's free , updates regularly , best detection rate , low resource useage

SnapCount said:

Bitdefneder 2009 here... and it also works!!

Sorta still works but anti phishing is going mad on every website i go to now..

Now running Kaspersky Tech preview

I installed this beta on windows 7 32 bit. Has support for windows 7. It works great.

PCBill

I've tried Antivir Workstation (the version contained in Avira enterprise bundles) on x64. Worked fine with one really anoying exception: sometimes Webguard prevented my browsers from connecting to any server. Both IE and Firefox would simply display a grey, empty window instead of the requested page.

Quite hard to debug as - for example - ping to the url worked fine and the browser didn't show any error-messages. Disabling Webguard fixed the problem.

I've now switched to the free version of Antivir and use the W7 Firewall+Defender to replace the additional features of Antivir Workstation. This works fine.

dmex said:

I ditched my Antivirus on the 8th of November 2006 and stopped using software firewalls back in 2004 and I have never regretted it once since

Still not one infection and If I cared about outbound protection I wouldn't have the computer connected to the Internet

I always win at playing "Spot the Virus"

Same here. I usually run an online scan about once a month when I'm bored but haven't had an infection since I've stoped using AV protection a couple years ago.

Run with LUA (non admin), stop downloading pirated software, use Opera/Firefox as your default browser with an updated filter.ini or the noscript plug-in, get a hardware firewall if you don't already..It's really not that hard to practise safe computing and honestly all an AV is gonna do kick out a couple false positives to make you feel like your money was well spent while the real threats slip by undetected .

Not saying running without an AV is for everyone, just don't let the false sense of security it offers lead to bad browsing habits.

Chappy said:

Hi smoaky

I do have one thing to say...39MB's is a "resource hog"?

Isn't Nod32 just an AV? Pretty sure it is, 39MB at idle would be considered a resource hog when compared with an Internet security suite like KIS with the AV, firewall, proactive defense, etc, it sits at 10-14MB at idle and eats less CPU to boot.

All bs aside if you have to have an AV go with Avast or Kaspersky for 32-bit. Bitdefender on 64, afaik it's the only one that's truely native 64 and doesn't have to hump WOW64 while doing its thing.