Vista - Whats the Best Antivirus/ Security Suite??

Not running any anti-virus seems a little silly to me, but each his own i guess. Personally I use Cyberdefender. It scans for trojans, malwear and spyware. It's caught a few bad things from getting on my system. It's good to know I'm surfing safely. Good luck to you in your surfing.

Hi all.
I'm new to the site, but have visited many times and find it very informative.

This thread caught my attention, since I've been asking myself the validity of running an Anti-Virus 24/7 i.e resident. As for using one, yes, but not with all the 'bells and whistles', so to speak.

In my opinion a layered approach seems to work best, where you have everything separate for specific tasks. For example:
a-squared free
Spyware Blaster
AVG Free (or other variants)
Windows Defender (left in it's default mode)
Ad-Aware
Blacklight Root-Kit scan and removal

I try to keep each one of these from running at start up, with the exception of Windows Defender. Add to that, Firefox /w Ad-Block plus and NoScript, clearing history, cache, cookies, etc., upon exit.

I used this routine in Windows XP and it's been literally years since I've seen anything remotely close to a virus or other on my system. I think, too, some commonsense while browsing, checking email plays into this as well. And I find the Windows firewall in Vista to be adequate and the advanced options make it very capable.

As of late, I've been creating batch files and handing them over to Windows task scheduler, to run scans at specific times. So, with the protection layers in Vista x64 and minimal resource tasking applications, I've found this to be a happy medium when balancing system responsiveness and security.

I use eset smart security 4.

Hi all.
I use Avast!Pro + UAC on for many years. no hard virus here till today.
Also i think viruses infections depends to you that how to see & find the viruses...

A tiered approach is good, and especially good if you take the reigns and intelligently impliment it. Letting all the programs have free reign can turn into a huge headache. Myself, I use a hardware firewall, windows defender, clamwin at startup, and I do most of my downloading from trusted sites within a virtual machine with no sharing to the host enabled. I generally avoid using the actual OS (Vista) unless I'm playing a game and I'll shut vmware down, but if I'm just doing casual browsing/work, any sacrafice in resources for running a couple of virtual machines is non-existant.

Thanks for the reply, truthkid

Yes, I failed to mention I use a hardware firewall. And, a virtual machine is a good extra step for keeping your main OS safe. Although, I can't afford VMWare, however, with a little tinkering, I find VMWare Player to be adequate.

One other thing, that's kind of related is I use True Crypt, notably keeping the VM within a container.

Clam Win is something I've never investigated. Thanks for the mention and will try that one out.

Nice to see another true crypt user, I discovered it last time I was in Iraq when it's product description went over a scenario when someone was at gunpoint and it had plausible deniability partitions built in. I was hooked!

I recommed Bitdefender for overall perfomance.

NOD32 by EST.......It's great!! And doesn't slow the machine.

Bad product. Wildest miss and too many false positives in recent AV comparatives test.