Best Antivirus with Vista?

[Brabus]

Currently using AVG 8.0 but am a little bit frustrated with the firewall sometimes. Any decent alternatives out there?

What are people on here using and why?

[Paul]

I have ran AVG and more recently the free Avast, until the trial expired.

I have now switched back to Norton 2009, as reports would appear they have responded to the fact the previous versions were a resource hog.

I couldnt really argue at the price through ebay.

£14.99+ p&p for a 3pc licence, posted on a 2GB usb stick.

It sorted out the desktop and the laptop with a licence to spare.

[Waylander]

Free or paid?

Free Avira

paid:

Norton 2009 [yes, really]

Kaspersky

Nod32/Eset Suite

[Sponge]

Kaspersky Internet Security. Because it was free via Barclays bank. (It also gets very good write ups.)

[Tipex]

I use Avast free edition, never had any problems.

[Brabus]

So is Norton 2009 really that good? Not been too keen on it in the past as there are alot of files to install and update all the time.

Any others? Keep the suggestions and experiences coming

[Paul]

I havent had it long enough to find any issues tbh.

Compared to previous versions, It now auto updates itself every 4 hours, and also streams "pulse" updates which are smaller and lighter every few minutes. Neither with any noticable drop in performance or bandwidth or need to spend any time thinking about updates.

From what it reports on its built in useage mointor, it uses next to no resource, and is programmed to look for idle points to do its thing.

[Gren]

Using NOD32 here (the old 2.7 version) and have just switched from Comodo to Online Armor for my firewall - a lot simpler to use and fewer pop-ups. Both firewalls have free options.

[Waylander]

I use Nod32 2.7 on the desktop [XP] with ZApro and it is fine.

On the laptop [Vista] I use KIS2009; I find browsing a touch slow.

Gren I presume you use Online Armor Pro? The free version seemed to have much fewer featres vs Comodo?

[Gren]

Yep, use the paid for version, the free version is not too bad - you lose web shield (if you use FF this is duplicated by add-ons), email shield (use NOD for this) and some keylogger stuff (try KeyScrambler). Advance firewall, I don't use as, for me, OA is all about simplicity.

A hint to all out there :

Install the free version, on setup it offers you the full version for $14.95 (a tenner) compared to the $39.95 normal price.

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