If you were going to pay for antivirus

[8mpg]

Got bit again...Im running Microsoft Security Essentials but it has no live monitoring. Malwarebytes was able to remove the virus. It was the AntiVira AV virus. Dunno where I picked it up (either a MP3 off of newsgroup or torrent porn)

Anyways, thinking of actually paying for a subscription to something...wht is the best?

[DFWminis]

Avast.com

[Cooter]

Kaspersky

[8mpg]

lol... after some reading it seems Webroot is the best so far and Panda is the best free.

[Tx Redneck]

MSE does have a real-time agent. If you're willing to beta a very effective product and get a 1yr subscription to their suite, go to forums.pcpitstop.com and register. Next, post in the thread called "Looking for beta testers"
You'll get a pm with a key and link to Dl Pc Matic. I've been using it over a year now.

My other choice is NIS 2011. You can get a 90 day trial of it here.

[Tx Redneck]

If you'd like to see what PC Matic is all about, run the scan and see.

[GT Fanatic]

I have Webroot on my main pc and I have had zero problems so far. I have used panda in the past and that was very decent as well. I have had zero luck with AVG.

[8mpg]

thanks for the suggestions guys. I have been reading and reading. Looks like Eset NOD32 is a winner. Newegg has a 3 user liscense for $40

[Tx Redneck]

Here's the two independent testing sites.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/summary-reports

http://www.av-test.org/

[BttleFedC10]

Ive got kaspersky. But idk how to work it.

[Tx Redneck]

Ive got kaspersky. But idk how to work it.

I tried it back in late 09 for the 2010 version and I got lost in the deep, multi level menus. It also made my interweb connection feel slow as heck. I'm sure they've addressed both those issues by now though.

[ceyko]

I dunno wtf some of you people are doing, must be way more perverted then I am.

1. The stock MSE monitoring works fine and catches the little stuff.
2. I do spot check with Malwarebytes and some other different apps for various things to confirm it - since people are always saying how much MSE sucks.

I don't want to know what you're doing but one thing is - if you're about to open any suspect file - you should scan it. Even if it is still a .zip/.rar/.tar...whatever, scan it. Scan your downloads, i.e. even the torrent file itself...and so on.

[Tx Redneck]

You can also scan files @ http://www.virustotal.com/

[STANGGT40]

i've used avg free for years, and it seems to work pretty well. none of them are perfect, though...