[richywilts]

as title says

[Smudgeoff Cleaning Services]

AVG

[Mike @ Facelift]

Comodo

Malware Bytes is a pretty good anti malware too

[elite mike]

i have been using microsofts   free one for the past 2 years no probs

great bit of kit and does not slow your pc down  

[John pearce]

avast

[Perfect Windows]

AVG

AVG missed a huge, serious, old infection (that should have been covered months before) for me.  I went from big supporter of AVG to avast after that.  Avast seems not to have missed anything so far.

[Nathanael Jones]

Avast.

[[GQC] Tim]

AVG is terrible.

Eset Smart Security is the best one, as it picks up everything, defends against everything, and has got a tiny system footprint. 3Mb in memory.

[g.brookes]

easy mate just buy a mac

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

+1

[robert mitchell]

The microsoft one works best with windows and its free .

[richywilts]

just trying the microsoft one now

[elite mike]

just trying the microsoft one now

its brilliant 

since ive been using it my kids have put it on their laptops  and have had no probs 

[formb]

AVG used to be king.

A programmer friend of mine reckons all antivirus programmes are a con. He says that they tend to be more debilitating to your computer than the viruses.....


.....depends what you browse I suppose.

[richywilts]

yeah ive had avast and avg i think on previous laptops which friends have downloaded and found laptops seems to slow down after downloading them

[MATT BATEMAN (OWC)]

Problem is, best anti-virus in the world don't stop laptop being nicked. :-)

[richywilts]

Problem is, best anti-virus in the world don't stop laptop being nicked. :-)

thats why it comes home with me every night now an get backed up to two different usbs!!!

[bobplum]

just trying the microsoft one now

is this the defender one,if so its basic,so if you dont do a lot of internet searching its ok.
AVG i thought was terrible
Anti-malawarebytes is very good for doing a sweep and getting rid of existing problems and its free to download with updates
i have norton 2013 and find its very good not had any problems

also you may want to go in to settings and adjust the internet security setting to medium or high,if its not allready

[*Hector*]

The Microsoft Security Essentials is the one that they are on about I think Bob..

It is very good, and unlike Norton (which has not been mentioned) does not slow down the computer at all, is free, and is regularly updated for free too...

Defender is just the basic firewall that windows gives you.

[robertphil]

avg  has been good to me . i had norton before that , paid 50quid per year and had no problem with that either . norton support was also very good to me ,somebody in America logged right into my lappy and tried to sort  out a mess once too .