Originally Posted by 1bit

I voted for Avira and Kaspersky - Ive been following all AV testing sites for years and both of these top the charts for overall protection and being the lightest on the system, anyone who says "ahh but avira gets loads of false positives" oviously hasnt been keeping up with recent events, in the latest tests for the past year its only been getting one or two - BitDefender is also an excellent AV/IS but is a bit heavier on the system

best free = AVIRA
best paid = KASPERSKY

I would normally advise to install private firewall alongside Avira Free as this is a top firewall with HIPS (Host Intrusion Protection System) and is extremely light on the system, which comes 2nd to Comodo (but that is system resource heavy, also has load of alerts which can be confusing and annoying)

I use:
Avira (Free)
Private Firewall (free)
WinPatrol (free)
MalwareBytes Anti-Exploit (busy testing this out, also free)

this gives you solid protection all for nothing, ive never had issues with viruses etc

You have been a wonderful help. Thank you.

NOD32 works the best for me.

If looking for free AV for win 10, then bit defender

using comodo internet security for over 3 years now downloading lot of cracks games etc and still PC alive and kicking nothing gets through comodo u should give it a try if u think ur AV a bit rusty

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Originally Posted by TorrentFGH

NOD32 works the best for me.

go for comodo mate its free and easy to use above that its pretty powerful

I used AVG for the longest time on my kids machine, but recently switched to McAfee Internet Security blah blah blah (the name is ridiculous), because I got a free license from work.

As for my personal machine, I honestly don't run AV actively (gasp!), though I do use Little Snitch (so I know what's trying to phone home and where home is). If I download something I think might be nasty, I'll download it in a sandbox VM and run AVG against it first.

I think not the bests the "All-Starts" antivirus.
I use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Kerish Doctor and HitmanPro.

virustotal for scanning files online
i have mac no antivirus... uhohhh

Kaspersky, but my best protection is disabling JS in Chrome with great JavaScript Switcher plugin and not using cracks or any executables from untrusted sources, or using it in sandbox.

I think Kaspersky is the best one.

Kaspersky by far, but it consumes A LOT.