Most Well-Rounded Antivirus Program

Not too surprising, AVG came in second place here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=29568

Acadia

 

That's a poll, not a performance test. People like AVG because it's free and it does its job, not because it is an outstanding AV.

Also, to give you an idea of how accurate those peoples' opinions are, precisely zero of them voted for the (quite excellent) F-Prot, and over 500 voted for the resource-sucking pig known as Norton...

 

Hear Hear!

 

I have been using AVAST Home edition for a few months now. So far so good.

 

Like I said earlier, resource hog means nothing to me any more, it did a month ago when I was using a five year old system. If it takes a resourse hog to go for 5 years with a perfect record at Virus Bulletin then so be it.

I think it's great that other people use other AV, variety is wonderful, I don't care to convert one person to Norton, my ego just isn't into it, there are simply too many excellent products out there now and I recommend many other AV to people DEPENDING UPON THEIR NEEDS AND SYSTEMS. However, it's one thing to have an opinion and another to try to make others feel guilty for using the AV that they choose to. In my opinion there are too many people who feel because an AV is best for them, EVERYONE should be using the same thing. They probably also know what kind of car we should all be driving or what we should all be eating.


Acadia

 

NOD-32 if you just want to plug&play, although as already discussed, I'd combine that with an anti-trojan (TDS-3 is my choice as it is also among the best in anti-trojan suites).

If you just want one, KAV 5 should be at the top of your list, but you really need to configure it yourself, to make it run ok on older machines without being on the slow side (IMHO!).

 

It also makes life a little more difficult for the malware writers,just think how easy it would be for them to get round your defences if everybody used the same AV with the same weaknesses(they all have some!)

 

ROFLMAO