Whats the Best Antivirus/ Security Suite??

I used Avast for a long while and it worked very well, and it is free. How can you go wrong. The Firewall that comes with Vista also seems to work well and Spybot. I have McAfee now because it came with the computer for six months and a disk with firewall and spyware for continuing cost me $15.00 . It also works well. I have had problems installing Norton(actually it was deinstalling Norton to install the new one) so I don't like it anymore and it does slow the computer down too much.
I had a friend who did not use a program and a virus he picked up probably on line infected our work computer in Madagascar. We had a computer guru who fixed it but buddy had to reformat his computer when he was at home.

Hello orlo, welcome to Vista forums!

I don't know if you still need this or not ...

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool

but others may find it useful.

Keep looking up!





Later Ted

Hi,

according to my view AVG latest version is best as antivirus and antispyware

For all the folks saying that a product is "the best" can you please detail *why* you say that?

and just saying it uses low resources or you don't have a virus isn't enough - I can run around most days without any protection and as long as I am careful about it I can be virus and malware free....

If you say it uses low memory, in comparison to that? obviously I am not going to go as far as to ask for screen shots, because if you are now using a product because it performs better than another product, chances are you don't have the other product installed....so screenies would be rather hard to come by....

I currently use Eset Security Suite for anti virus and firewall and have no obvious problems. It is not resource intensive, does the job with minimal fuss. Just downloaded and installed PCTOOLS Spyware Doctor Beta 64bit for Malware protection and can say that at the moment it is working a treat. I see you can also download S/D with AV havn't tried that as I already have a AV running, but may be worth a shot. The current beta software is free.

I say eset(NOD32) is best because I have used just about everything out there(well probably not, its a big world.) And eset is the only one I've ever seen clean 30,000 infected folders and files and return the system to working fine.

Norton never did that.

And until another AV can pull that off I'm sticking with NOD32!

Xguntherc,

I did not care for Norton either and have found avast! to be as good or better, and the prices is right...free! Download the home version and I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

bennett

I noticed a couple of post ago that the Norton Removal Tool was mentioned.
I used it (twice once before and once after installing ErrorSmart) and it improved the performance of pccillin.
In-between uses I tried a 30 day free trial of ErrorSmart which was adviterised on the forum. It destroyed my performance causing explorer.exe to lock up the machine. I did a system recovery and then reran the Norton Removal Tool. Th manchine is close to normal.

However, I have lost my UNINSTALL program. Any clues on which one of these could have done that and how to recover. I did a file recovery on it and I did not recognize anything as it. Thanks in advance for any help.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool

I use Bitdefender 2008 on my Vista x64. It has low footprint and works fine.