Another 1 for Kaspersky here and with the new edition 2010 it just gets better.
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1 tip is to buy it from somewhere like Amazon not Kaspersky direct as it's far cheaper that way. Could be the same for other antivirus products?
I'm using ESET Smart Security 4 and so far its working very well. Not a resource hog and has done it work several times:)
I would have to say...
1) Microsoft Security Essentials beta - catches more than most others, I've found.
2) AVG Free - many features, free.
3) avast! - as stated by someone else, uses only a little CPU
4) Avira - free
5) Norton - at least it works...
6) ClamWin - doesn't even remove the virus
7) Kaspersky - annoying, frequent false alarms, hard to use, messed up many of my programs
Those are my favorites, in that order.
In order of user experience, hehehe. I bet you never paid for ESET?
As for Kaspersky, it's a good package, but only recent versions are good. Go back a year or so and it gets bad.
AVG and Avast just don't cut it for top-notch protection. Nice option for 100% free protection though.
I have to agree that MSE is a good choice, and it deserve to be up top on your list.
Avira has very good detection, but along with that, tons and tons of false positives.
As for ClamWin, why would you even bother? That stuff is garbage.
And finally, Symantec... well, bloated and annoying, we can all agree. It does its job fairly well, but overpriced, over-valued, and over-used = not best option.
For me ..am using Norton Internet Securtiy 2010 Beta..
And it works great for me on buil 7264 :)
Tried ESET for a while, but back to MSE now.
MSE is free and the system seems to run faster with it running, even over ESET which is very good.
Windows and MSE just make a relationship like none other!
It's a moot point would love to try mse but they have shut it down...no more releases unless somebody has an alternate plan
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