by Goodgnome » Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:19 am
Personal preference: Avast!
McAfee & Norton are both competent products. However, they both tend to resource hogging more than any other AV products I've ever used. I have a philosophical issue that prevents me from using MS Security products - it seems to me like asking the fox to guard the henhouse from inside, with the doors closed (has any software company anywhere in the world had more, larger security holes than are found in Microsoft's key software offerings - Windows & Office?), so I discount that on those grounds. It may be a solid product, but the track record isn't there.
I also use Spybot to help clean up cruft that lands on systems, and run Adblock Plus on all my browsers, and FBPurity (
http://www.fbpurity.com) on any systems that I use to access Facebook.
So far, 5 years into using Avast, 0 infections.
{edit: Oh, and I use Avast free, because licensing costs are painful in my house (5 active systems). I don't run any extra firewall software or anything of that nature, because I'm behind a NAT router, and I don't want the extra overhead on my systems.}
Personal preference: Avast!
McAfee & Norton are both competent products. However, they both tend to resource hogging more than any other AV products I've ever used. I have a philosophical issue that prevents me from using MS Security products - it seems to me like asking the fox to guard the henhouse from inside, with the doors closed (has any software company anywhere in the world had more, larger security holes than are found in Microsoft's key software offerings - Windows & Office?), so I discount that on those grounds. It may be a solid product, but the track record isn't there.
I also use Spybot to help clean up cruft that lands on systems, and run Adblock Plus on all my browsers, and FBPurity ([url]http://www.fbpurity.com[/url]) on any systems that I use to access Facebook.
So far, 5 years into using Avast, 0 infections. :)
{edit: Oh, and I use Avast free, because licensing costs are painful in my house (5 active systems). I don't run any extra firewall software or anything of that nature, because I'm behind a NAT router, and I don't want the extra overhead on my systems.}