Microsoft Security Essentials. It's getting rave reviews and picked up 5 trojans that both Malware Bytes and AVG Premium missed when I ran it a few days ago on the family PC.

Oh, and did I mention it is free?

(You won't see me loving a Microsoft product often, so you know I am impressed with this one. )

Windows Defender. Dunno, I've had it for a long time (over a year), and it's always caught everything.

Windows Defender has been discontinued and replaced by Security Essentials. Go upgrade.

No! I dun want to upgrade yet. >_>

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Wow. Um, if you believe that, you are fucking stupid. And I don't care if you want to claim I'm causing an argument. Because that's fact.

Okay, I think we can all agree that Norton sucks and should be scrapped.

Personally, despite the warnings against doing so, I run multiple virus protections. I run Avast, AVG, Avira, and Ad-Aware (if it starts with an 'a', it's probably good).

If you wanna keep it simple and have the best protection, I'd say go for Avira and Ad-Aware. Avira has kept me safer than AVG and Avast have and Ad-Aware is the best at finding all the crap malware (spyware, adware, and that junk). AVG has done jackshit to actually protect me, but I have it in case. Before using Avira, I was running Avast on my old computer. It's a great alternative. It missed a few trojans, but after running a scan in safe mode, it found 'em and got rid of them for me. It usually finds everything in scans, but Avira has been the best for live protection (not that Avast isn't good, but Avira catches it first).

So yeah, my recommendation is Avira and Ad-Aware. If you don't want Avira, go for Avast. And AVG is okay. I wouldn't recommend it, but it gets good reviews.

I just wouldn't run NOD32. I know nothing about it. I've never heard it recommended once.

Unless that is sarcasm, I disagree.

Norton has picked up many viruses that my previous AV programs haven't. It is efficient and user-friendly and tech support on the Symantec website is well-managed. They have listed hundreds of viruses and their removal.

I think that Norton is definitely the way to go. If you want to go free, however, go for Malwarebytes.

As I said earlier, Security Essentials found 5 trojans that Malwarebytes did not, including the other problems that Malwarebytes had found. Go with MSE.

oh shit yeah, I forgot >.<

definitely go with MSE, they're the best free solution. seriously.

Norton has never worked for me. It'll find all sorts of crap and then not be able to remove it. It's like it just wants to taunt me. "Hey look, this shit is fucking up your computer! Too bad..." I've never been able to remove any serious infection with it. Avast and Avira have done wonders, however.

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Also, Spybot isn't bad. I haven't used it in years, but it's free and another program worth checking out. It's like Ad-Aware in that it mostly removes spyware/adware stuff and not viruses, trojans, and whatnot.

If a hacker wanted to bypass it, they would. That's what hacking is about. And honestly, if I was a hacker and not just an average internet guy, I'm sure I'd know all about it. I mean, I have heard OF it, just nothing about it.

AVG's pretty high, I never realized.