I have Norton antivirus but i have heard complaints about it so i was wondering who has the best antivirus Norton or McAffe.Thanx ,i always trust the peoples opinions here.

I would recommend you get eTrust Anti-virus. It's a small program, frequent updates (sometimes several a day) and I've never had a problem with it. I've found it very efficient, and have never had a virus. I've been using it for about two years. Norton and McAfee are way to bloated and obtrusive IMHO.

I use mcafee av and havn't had too many problems with it. The automatic email scanner freezes up incomming email if it has virus and the email download will give errors so I cannot recieve any email so I have email scanning shut off and scan any email attachments manually...seems to be better at clean up than norton but norton seems to be better at initial detection. I have used both. I find norton uses more resorces than mcafee. Mcafee cleans out the registry entries of infections while norton does not. Norton has much better removal instructions on their website than mcafee. Mcafee is terrible at finding viruses in zip files until you unzip them. I think every antivirus program has it's weak points and if I figure I need another opinion on a file...I go online to rav antivirus or housecall for second opinion. I know all that does not help much but just a few things I found with both programs...I have not accidently infected myself...I have done it on purpose to see how either program reacts and how they handle the infection...many times I opt for manual removal when removing bugs from someones system including mine. I have also tried panda antivirus and tested it out with an infected floppy that was write protected. Panda found the virus but claimed to have renamed the file to render it useless which is not possible with a write protected floppy! Checked the floppy on another machine and the file name was not changed (or cleaned, deleted) I have installed AVG on several machines and it seems pretty good on resorces, detection, but dumb when it comes to actually removing an infection. (meaning the virus was run) As I'm sure you know..no antivirus program is any good unless kept up to date. Hope that helps a little on decision making. Have a Good New Year!

I agree with Blender. No a/v program is perfect. The "best" for you depends on what you are looking for. Here are two a/v programs that I have used lately. Kaspersky Personal 4.5. This is a very good a/v program. Updates are available daily and you can configure KAV if resource usage is an issue. It may be a bit pricey for some.Cost was around $49 when I registered the program. Dr.Web for Workstations. I like this a/v also. This program has a fast scanner and uses little resources. Spider Mail scans mail,even in Outlook Express accounts. Updates have been daily. Cost is just under $30. I like the strong heuristics,but I don't mind investigating any possible false positives that may occur with Dr.Web's heuristics. The best way to find what is best for you is to trial some a/v's one at a time until you find a program that fits what you want or need. HTH, JB.

It does depend on what you mean as best. Check the tests at ICSA Labs.

I am using Solo Antivirus. It works great on my Windows 98 machine. I am very satisfied with Solo online protection. It uses very little resources, fast and updates automatically. You can try it.

Norton AntiVirus is the best AV on earth.The most important feature of an anti virus is its detection capabilities..I Assure you that these New AVs will not detect highly complex and polymorphic viruses and/or it might take the staff weeks or months to find a solution for it(depending on the viruse's complexity)...Norton Antivirus Has proved to be one of the best AntiViruses so far...Even a schoolboy can find the viruse's signature and scan for files...The problem arises when the virus encrypts its code Best Regards