What antivirus or protection do you use?

torqux

Nod or Kaspersky

Anonymouse

Win7 box uses MS Security Essentials. Linux box nothing.

chrisone

Snow.bros wrote: »

You never know, sometimes the vampire comes into your home unexpected I just prefer to be protected when that happens.

Agreed, unfortunately viruses, malware, and other forms of malicious code "force" their way onto systems be it one or a combination of the many vectors out there, let alone zero-day exploits.

LOL I think most businesses wish they could just say "We don't need anti-virus software, we don't allow malicious code into our networks."

rwmidl

Sophos on my Macs and MSE on the Windows vm.

dhay13

LOL I think most businesses wish they could just say "We don't need anti-virus software, we don't allow malicious code into our networks." [/QUOTE]

thats basically what my last manager said. we had no A/V on our windows servers cause he said 'we don't need it, we don't surf the internet on servers'

TC.

MSE on my current W7 laptop. Haven't had a hiccup yet.

koz24

My new Macbook Pro is on the way and I'm currently torn between Bitdefender and Kaspersky for it. I see a lot of you in this thread use Kaspersky so I may go with that since it's cheaper.

detroitwillfall

Edin wrote: »

Genuinely curious to see what people here use as an A/V solution for their home PCs?

I use Bitdefender with Malwarebytes.

i use free avast and free malwarebytes(run once a week, not on demand)

havnt had a single problem

Edin

Thanks guys for all the constructive replies, in saying that - I have changed around my security at home..

I've added ZoneAlarm to my setup and will be recommending it to people from now - I think it's a really powerful firewall suite that replaces windows firewall IMO.

dmoore44

HerdProtect and Windows Defender on my Win10 boxes. My MacBook is a whole other beast though... I tend to use the built in tools to keep the bad away - it's configured to the hilt for any sort of file access outside a user folder, I've enabled and run pf instead of the weaksauce FW that Apple shoves off on you, and a few other custom tools.

motheo

At work: Symantec Endpoint Protection
At home: Windows Defender and Microsoft essentials.

techtia

My 3 year old cousin

itechankit

I use eset smart security in my personal laptop
and In office i install Microsoft security essentials (mostly) if needed i install AVG and kaspersky.

MSE has never gave any problem.In my opinion if you update it regualrly it kills every virus.

Swaswaswa

I use Avast Pro, TdssKiller, HijackThis, Malwarebytes, and Spybot.

FastEthernet

ESET at home - detects stuff and deals with it. And I've had a couple of nasty emails recently. Recommended.

McAfee at work - detects stuff, then lets it in! Not recommended.

itechankit

yeah Mcafee is not at all protective.You can easily get a free licsense but its useless.try MSE.it has never troubled me.its free-light resource-fast.