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What is the best antivirus to use?

Asked by soni1 about 1 month ago, 6 answers.

antivirus

Answered by mikeh on Oct 01, 2009, 06:52AM
1697 answers

MacAfee Total Protection is a good all-around preventative suite. It's pretty strict about what it will and will not let access your machine. Sometimes too strict.

If you've already been infected, check out HijackThis. It's not very user-friendly, and takes a bit of reading to learn how to use, but it's very, very thorough. It basically scans every executable on your system and creates a database. Then you can take that database to a website that will analyze everything it found and tell you which ones are dangerous and which are legit. Then HijackThis lets you delete all the nasties.

I had a Google re-direct virus that thwarted every attempt to remove it, but HijackThis found it right away.

Answered by kibblelady on Oct 01, 2009, 09:10AM
6 answers

IMO AVG and it is free as well just Google AVG antivirus.

Answered by imxxsoxxloaded on Oct 01, 2009, 09:21AM
164 answers

well I have Avira!! I donno if its the best but it works??

Answered by benben714 on Oct 01, 2009, 12:52PM
83 answers

McAffee is probably one of the best
you can get AVG wich is good, for free, where as mcafee and norton will cost you money

Answered by ethmer on Oct 03, 2009, 03:02AM
3529 answers

AVG is a FREE anti-virus program that is excellent

http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

Answered by action on Nov 01, 2009, 10:10PM

I think AVG is good, been using it for a few years now. But if you should decide to spend a few bucks? Go for NOD32! You can not get better and it is very low on system resources.