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I use ESET security suite and it is great especially with the firewall in interactive mode as it you will ask you for all network permissions for all your apps and even windows services but you don't get a million popups while installing like Comodo does.
The best AV will vary every few months but ESET is always near the top. If you want a good one Avira is really good also. Check out this recent review from Tom's (they are unbiased with their reviews)
2009 Anti-Virus Roundup : One-Stop Comparison for 14 Anti-Virus Titles
This chart is of may 09. AV comparatives do not include beta products in their tests. But im sure MSE will be much better from one care.
Like I said though AV rating will vary over time and gave recommendations for all around top performers. I have a paid AV /FW so I wanted one that I know will be in the top performing class for the life of my subscription.
If you are looking short term then I say find an unbiased review (because they can be hard to find with AV reviews) that have lots of free AV's as well because you can often see Avira and others that perform better that paid AV's.
BTW: I am looking forward to trying out MSE and seeing some reviews of it also.
i'd agree, cept for its large amount of false positives.
How do you know you aren't getting false positives? They aren't labelled "false positives". Avast CLAIMS it is malware, whereas it's really not.
Are you saying you are not getting any malware reported by Avast? Because that would be the only way you were not getting false positives.
If you are getting malware reported, then to be double check they are not false positives, you have to re-scan with another AV that does not give false positives -- like ESET or Kapersky. Which is why a lot of people use those to begin with...
Last edited by ChazzMatt; 03 Jul 2009 at 18:10.