Anti-Virus help

[mpfive]

hey guys, i finally decided to get an anti-virus for my computer, dont feel safe any more, i need your guys suggestions, can u please tell me the following:

1. what kind of anti-virus do u use?
2. do u like it?
3. would u recommend it to me?
4. if u said no for question 3, wut anti-virus would u recommend?

thnx a lot guys, i'd really appritiate it

[Shadow Axel]

I use Microsoft anti-virus Beta. i think that it is one of the best ones out there. me and a freind tested it out agenst norton anti-virus and it stoped 6 more spywear downloads then norton.

[Johnas]

I use Avast. It's free, small and effective. No viruses sofar

[garethgeezer]

Try this one, very stable and it's free:

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

[mpfive]

thnx guys, lol, i'll check those out when i get home

[mpfive]

just thought i'd let u konw, i went w/ garethgeezer's choice, and suprisingly i found 2 trojan horses , but the program got rid of them.. so my comp is clean, lol , thank u very much man

[Zachary]

how about spyware/trojan protection...got it yet?

if no, then get this one http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

and heres top20 av softs
http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/...re/top-20.html

[mpfive]

ooh, thnx man, i have the spybot S&D installed already.. lol

[XSImatrix]

i dont use antivirus.... slows down comp and i reformat regularly.

but make sure you have things to block spyware and quick scripts and trojan registry keys. (SPSD is amazing. use teatimer if you styill use ie.)

but what i do use sometimes if something wierd is up on the computer, i run avg free av, only had 1 virus ever found and a couple minor things.

[mpfive]

thnx, thats basically wut i'm using rite now, so far so good, thnx to u guys, didnt have to spend money