Vista Tutorial - Whats the Best Antivirus/ Security Suite??

In my opinion, Grisoft AVG Free is the best anti virus. It is powerful, updatable, and most of all FREE!

My advice... The free ones are best.
Get AVG anti-virus, spyware and anti-rootkit. All are generally very good.
Norton is irritating, MCaffe gets infected itself, and I generally dont like the rest.

*Note* AVG actually did find a worm hiding in my Mcaffee archive.

hmmmm... Well thanks for all the info Guys, I am currently using NOD32 security and it works great.. it is very fast, light on comp resources and I like all the Advanced Setup Features.. you can even go into advanced and chance what you want. then click hide advanced settings so someone else wont accidentally change a setting.. although I'm only one on my PC, but I did that for my brothers cuz he ahs many on his... so far NOD32 gets my vote, it and Kasper are both good, casper messed things up on vista for a while.. BitDefender was lame. it won a few awards but I totally DIDN'T like it.. seemed cheap, bad layout.. looks like a middle schooler made the display's and icons.. NOD32 is proffesional looking

So thank you everyone for your input,, but xguntherc has found what he needs.. and for you guys fighting.. ur right. best AV is ur own brain.. I on'y go to the site's I need to. Worst places I go are Myspace and to torrent sites.. so thanks again.

I would like to 76th that norton slows down ur system, especially on vista.

I'd recommend NOD32...although you can use it for 30 days, and then u have to buy it...

Ray

I think you might need to read your original post again.

It's quite clear you said that xguntherc doesn't need any security suite or similar products and as far as the websites you look at, I am not concerned or have any interest in your browsing habits whatsoever, it's xguntherc we're trying to help, NOT YOU!!!

I have to throw another recomendation for Kaspersky Internet Suite - it's been spot on perfect for me.

Mr Smiley.

**** off.

Bye

currently checking avast on the other pc - it has xp and so far does not reboot other than to hang at the start up with some link that does not seem to work, doing an f8 safe mode boot soon as want the licence from Nod32 for the current vista pc

not sure why people have to swear at others when they disagree, but guess ray found out the result

never liked avg after it told me some suspect files were ok - just some trojans

Hi. I use Zone Alarm Security Suite on my XP computer and like it. When I bought my Vista 32 bit, I used the 32 bit Vista version of Zone Alarm and like it. I just bought my X64 Vista and Zone Alarm does not make a 64 bit version. Wanting a combo AV and Firewall, I tried a number of programs and didn't have too much luck. Trend Micro, for example, told me the reason I was having so many troubles with their product was that I had the beta version of SP1 installed and that I would either have to uninstall SP1 or their program. I opted for their program. At the moment I'm using AVG for everything but firewall and I'm using Windows for that. Satisfactory but I do like the way ZA works on my other machines and if you have 32 bit Vista, you might try them.