hi i was just woundering what anti-virus softwear is best? What one should i get?

this is going to kick off a big debate. I think it really depends how daft the user is. Personally, AVG does it for me sitting beind a hardware firewall. I know others will disagree.

I have the same setup. AVG has done it for me.. Norton and Mcaffee are nice. But my opinion is that they use too much of the computer resource just sitting there.. Especially if you are on real time scanning. ------ Get FireFox You'll be happy you did.

I'm with buzz, my neighbour just went broadband and bought the Norton Security Suite. Jeeezzz it wont let you do anything unless you ask for permission and it seems to slow the whole rig down. I seems to do a good job, I just don't think its all necessary.

i throughly concur with the above.i use a hard ware firewall with AVG and have no problems wotsoever.i have used mcafee`s panda and norton ni the past but as noted above all are very system intensive.plus u cannot beat a hardware firewall.also if u are using XP teh windows firewall is fine for all incoming traffic anyone got any work!!? i need a JOB!!

Hi I use AVG pro its good does its job. use lots of spyware as well.

My own opinion is that ZoneAlarm with Antivirus is quite good. It's only 25 bucks and it isn't bloated like Norton or (even worse) McAfee. Here at work I replaced Norton with ZoneAlarm and found it uses only a third of the system resources. Another advantage is that unlike Norton, the ZoneAlarm guys wrote their own code. Norton uses code from Internet Explorer to work, and that is just a sh**tty way to "code" software. Why would I want my AV system running on the code from world's oldest most insecure browser? The ZoneAlarm firewall also lets you set up different parameters for internet vs. LAN communications. For example, I need NETBIOS enabled on my LAN, but I don't want it enabled for internet communication. With Norton it's either on or off. With Zonealarm it's enabled for my LAN and disabled for my internet connection. I just have much finer control over what the firewall is doing. Now you asked about antivirus, not a firewall. The antivirus component is very good as well. It auto-updates itself just like the others do, and the virus definitions are as up-to-date as the others. If you want a free, open-source solution, check out Clam Antivirus (http://www.clamav.net/), and click on "BINARY PACKAGES AND PORTS". It runs on Windows, Linux, Open BSD, FreeBSD, Mac, Solaris, and AIX. I've used it and been pretty happy with it. The virus definitions are as up-to-date as the others, and it has an auto-update feature, but they do call the viruses by different names. I'm running Clam on my home computers because I'm too damned cheap to fork over a buck for software. I've had good success with it, as it's caught every virus trying to make its way into my system.