What’s the best anti-virus protection software on the market?


I am in the process of updating McAfee, but I am having second thoughts which program is best. Got any suggestions?
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5 Responses

  1. iluvpickletoad Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 7:27 am

    Norton Anti Virus is EXELLENT! it blocked a trojan virus from my pc yesterday!

  2. quijibored Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    avast free version

    better than McAfee or Norton and it updates automatically, both virus updates and program updates

  3. Don M Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Norton and McAfee as you notice are not very high on the list.
    It always seems that there proffessional versions are much more stable than there retail versions.

  4. Roelof V Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 7:48 am

    That question of what’s the best antivirus protection can’t be answered, because everybody has his/hers favorite program.
    iluvpick finds Norton the best, but when you follow Yahoo Answers a little, you would have seen that most people don’t like Norton any more. It is the same when you ask what is the best car in the world. Retoracle question again. I have tried out most antivirus programs, mcafee, nod32, panda, kaspersky, avg free, avast free and others. I have been using now for quite a while Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 and I like it very much. Have not had any problems again. Trend Micro stopped me from doing stupid things. So for me it is Trend Micro.

  5. Oops Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans etc. I have just upgraded to AVG free 8.0 and all seems good so far. Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps