Antivirus software recommendations?

I've been using Norton 360 the past few years and generally its OK, however picked a virus up last year and managed to get rid of it, e-mailed Norton and asked for a refund but they ignored me :| For some reason Norton also slowed my laptop right down so uninstalled and reinstalled which solved the problem. Past couple of days I've picked up an adware banner called Quickshare (I think) which appeared through e-bay, it completely slowed my laptop and found out it slowly corrupts your registry files. I downloaded a registry cleaner but found tonight I've lost a load of dll files which I've just reinstalled and all good again. So as for Norton its not 100% and doesn't always do the job.

Definitely going for a Mac next time.

Tim.
 
I had the same "Police" message when my anti virus had run out :headbang:

I've used both Avast and AVG (a few of my IT colleagues made recommendations) - both free versions. Both have kept my computer running sweet :thumbsup:
 
Don't know about the Mac and AV. I run 2 macs at home (also support MS for a living) after I got pissed off at the pc slowing down and needing rebuilds. I don't run any AV on the macs, but it doesn't feel right.

I know they are more secure, but surely can still get infected, and with them becoming more popular I'm sure they will be targeted more. There have been incidents recently highlighting infections.

Perhaps they aren't at risk of drive by downloads, as you need to authorise any install, but would be at risk of user being duped?
 
For the peskier malware that won't clear via malware bytes and av software of choice (+1 for Avast) head over to bleepingcomputer and download their rkill utility. That terminates a lot of known malware background processes allowing the av software to then remove them. My daughter managed to get one of those horrid viruses that claim to be av software and then tell you every file on your system is a virus. Took ages to clean it
 
You could just wipe the computer and start again.

After all, you do have backups of your data, don't you?
 
Interested reading through the topic replies.

I've run a full Norton scan and malwarebytes scan since I had my virus and all appears to be well but I'm gonna try some of the other stuff people have mentioned on here just to make sure.

Hastle you can do without really :headbang:
 
I've used AVG free for years and never (touch wood) had a virus problem. AVG has very occasionally caught and quaratined viruses (virii?) which I then delete.

I occasionally run Malwarebytes.
 
ab7 said:
Hastle you can do without really :headbang:
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That's the problem with Windows.....user needs to perform maintenance. Same with Mac as well.

dr_john said:
I've used AVG free for years and never (touch wood) had a virus problem. AVG has very occasionally caught and quaratined viruses (virii?) which I then delete.

I occasionally run Malwarebytes.
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This is how it should be.
 
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