Posted August 23, 200717 yr "Yukon Jack" <NO@EMAIL.HERE> wrote in message news:... > "Robert Moir" <usenet@REMOVE2EMAILrobertmoir.com> wrote in message > news:%23sPNtIO5HHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> But I'm sure people here have horror stories about each of those, and >> different suggestions for what product you should use (and some halfwits >> will even claim their preferred one is "the best")... > > Well, obviously the one that detects the most virus's and has the least > false detections is the best. I use AVG on Vista and Avast on Win2K but > that is because I am a cheap bastage. From what I have read Kaspersky and > Nod32 get the highest ratings. > > If you want free though I prefer AVG as it is less resource hungry > compared to Avast. Avast has better protection modules but I find it slows > down my boot up time and my web browsing compared to AVG. Nod32 is > designed with gamers in mind so uses the least resources and is a very > good scanning engine too. Never used it yet but am going by my own > research on Antivirus progs. One thing I don't like are obtrusive AV > progs, like Norton.
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