Virus SW Recommendations?

[audiophile]

My Norton AV subscription is about to expire. I have not kept up-to-date regerding other AV SW and was wondering if I should take a look at another product. (I suspect that I may be taking a bit of a performance hit from all the stuff Norton loads and am wondering if there's an effective, leaner AV solution.) I'm just a home user with a small workgroup and an Internet connection via Verizon FiOS. Thanks for your help.

[Alaron]

AVG: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 :)

[Negeva]

Agree, AVG Free for the AV side of things and then spyware wise AVG Anti-Spyware, Spybot and Ad-Aware SE.

[juppy]

Avast is another good one (and it's free, just like AVG).
http://www.avast.com/eng/free_virus_protectio.html

And you're right about Norton. It's a bad resource hog and will slow your computer down quite a bit. Lose Norton and install either AVG or Avast (not both though....they'll mess each other up), and the spyware programs that Negeva listed and you'll be good to go.

[Cricket]

Another good free antivirus is Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (http://www.free-av.com/)

:) Cricket

[kev7555]

see below

[TwoRails]

Personally, I would, and do, stay with it. It does work and has always (except '04) gotten high marks in independent tests like the ones PC World, and others, do. ... and yes, I know, everybody loves to hate it, but it does work.

[Gimmpy]

I agree also that AVG is good - I have used Panda for many years and have been extremely happy with it (it's not free)