What Anti-virus are you using... free or paid?

I am just wondering that maybe the results of this poll is probably different from the poll I made on about those using firewalls.

Tell me honestly, what is the main anti-virus program are you using... FREE version or PAID version?

If you ask me, I am using the free version of Avast! Home Edition Anti-virus.

 

Paid for NOD

 

KAV here.

 

Avast free here.

 

Paid for NIS 2006 of which NAV is a component. Permit me to add my little rant that I think the subscription renewals are getting ridiculous for AV products, I know it is cheaper to wait and get the whole Suite of the new product {of NIS or NSW, or both}, including rebates, than it is to get a subscription renewal of an old product. That is not a commentary on Symantec, I think they all are getting too high; I know Panda's is quite high, and I suspect the others too.

 

Licensed:

NOD
GData
Bitdef. Pro
CA (Ino+Vet)
KAV

But using none of them at the moment

Gerard

 

Was a NOD32 user, but have now switched to KAV

 

Paid:

NAV 2006 on one of my laptops
Avast! Pro on my main XP Pro x64 laptop
Mcafee 9 on my wifes PC
Mcafee 9 on my daughters PC

Overall Avast has worked really well on my main machine for me and no problems at all. I bought the Pro over the free home because I wanted the script blocker and also to support the company.

Mcafee is ok but a few things I feel are pretty poor are the activeX popup windows and having to log in to their web site with user name and password for updates. I also am a bit puzzled as to why their antivirus does not have a log.

Nav 2006 is actually pretty impressive over previous versions. Much improved, excellent test results and overall much less of a hog than earlier versions.

 

I also bought NIS 2006 recently via the Symantec store and got what I thought was a decent deal. For $69.99 no tax or shipping (digital download) I got NIS 2006 with 2 years of updates. So that works out to only $34.99 per year. For that I felt it was pretty good. I am thinking about replacing my wife's Mcafee 9 with this same deal and than for 2 years no worries about renewals. Also I am not sure about this as I read some various threads on it and the Symantec web site really does not give much details on anything, but with the 2 year subscription deal starting with this 2006 release, I have read that you not only get defs but also program updates. Again I do not know if this is accurate but if it is than it is an even better deal than I thought.

 

Paid for both KAV(resident) and NOD32(on-demand).

KAV was £19($32) and NOD was £16($27) for renewal. I don't think that is extortionate. It's not even £2 a month. Now if this was the price for HIPS application renewal then yeah, not happy. But AV's are being updated daily, sometime multiple times a day. But HIPS application's usually only get updated a few times a year. You are paying for the service, in which you are getting 24/7 support. I mean £19 for a year for KAV and how many times do they update in a year? Probably in excess of 1000 updates. Not 1000 signatures, 1000 times that you can download an update, with each update containing anything from 1 to xxx signatures. That's a lot of service for just £19.

muf

 

Desktop - Bitdefender 9 (paid) - will switch to AntiVir PE 7.x (free) when subscription is up.
Laptop - AntiVir PE (free)

 

Licensed NOD

 

NOD on all of them, home rigs/server, and office rigs/servers.

 

AntiVir Premium (paid) here...

 

Nod32 V2.

 

NOD32 2.5
KAV 5

(And some old NAV/NIS versions)

 

"Free" AVG, in combination with Ewido, Spyware Blaster, Spybot, AdAware and Zone Alarm (firewall). Note all of these are "freeware". I say in combination because obviously I do not just rely on one product for total protection.

Thanks
Wildman

 

Nod32 V2

 

im using nod32 paid, well technically i won it so it was free for me, but yea its licensed.

 

I am now useing Symantec corporate 10.1.4.4000

have license's for
NIS 2005
Mcafee av 2006
F-Secure IS 2006
TrendMicro IS 2006
Nav AV 2006
Kaspersky 5 personal
eTrust internet security
F-Prot
Panda titanium with antispyware 2006
Panda Platinum internet security 2006

 

ShadowUser will replace my scanners, not only AV but also AS, AT and AK.
Total scan time of SU = reboot time.

 

Well, it's actually one of my "principles" that I prefer the free alternatives to bloated programs like for instance Symantec; and in fact I've never understood what Pro versions of AV programs offer (compare to free ones) that's really worth paying for them.


/EDIT: For the main reasons why I use the AntiVir program and prefer it over others, please see the My thoughts about AntiVir vs. other anti-virus programs thread that I opened back then here at Wilders Security forums ...


cheers all, stalker

 

Just switched to DrWeb from mcafee enterprise 8.0i. Running 4 months of trial version for now.

 

Nice idea!
Perfecto!!!

I'm currently using Avast Home edition free.

 

Antivir PEC 6 then now testing PEC beta 7