There are better ANti Virus Software out there.

The best one out of all of them is AVG. The free version is really all that you need and you can get it at free.grisoft.com. It is not resource heavy ( will not slow your PC down at all ) and it is a install and forget program. Includes Anti Spyware as well.

The 2nd best would be Avast. Not as good as AVG but close. Again it is Free I believe.

I simply cannot understand why HP endorses Norton's Crapware so much......Such horrible coding....same for Mcafee.

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In all the browsing I did this summer, the general consensus was that AVG and Avast! were nearly identical quality wise, with Avast! having a slightly higher detection rate. You can't go wrong with either.

Both feature free versions.

Security suites change on an almost daily basis, what was great last year could well be feature bloated this year (case in point - Bitdefender 2008 brilliant, award winning, 2009 absolutely awful, 2010 very much better but heavy on system resources).

http://internet-security-suite-review.toptenreviews.com/

(might need to use IE as Firefox can't seem to display the page properly).

I've got a 3 year 3 PC Bitdefender license (free upgrade from 2008 to 2010 which was cool), and I use it on my games machine and my brothers desktop, but I removed it from my TX2. Guess what I installed? Norton IS 2010 (a mate had a spare license key, and, apart from home page taking a few seconds longer than normal on Firefox first load, no slowdown on the TX2...

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Norton-AntiVirus/994513192/1#reviews

Or, you know, do a Google search for unbiased N2010 review. And, whatever you end up using, also run Malwarebytes once a week (on demand scanner is free), it's pretty highly rated for finding spyware.

But if you really want pure online security (ish), do what I did, and dual boot Ubuntu using that wasted 10GB drive D with Vista and drivers on it (obviously, burn them to CDs first in case of catastrophic failure). I've got version 9.04 that, apart from no touch screen - keep meaning to look into it, works straight from the off, wireless, sound, trackpad etc. Then all my online banking and ebaying etc I do from there. I did try a virtual Ubuntu, but a) the internet was like molasses and b) if you're infected with a keylogger in windows I wasn't sure it wouldn't catch anything you did in a virtual window.

+1 for Microsoft Security Essentials... tested to be around the level of AVG, doesn't bog the system down, from Microsoft, and free.

Draiko said: +1 for Microsoft Security Essentials... tested to be around the level of AVG, doesn't bog the system down, from Microsoft, and free.

and that is why it is NOT to be trusted.  AVG is much better.

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Not in the least. I guess I should have explained it better.

A few years ago when Microsoft released a version of Defender tot he masses it had a really hilarious bug that left many without a means to get online. It was programmed to find spyware and then destroy the SOURCE of that infection....and it did it only too well.

It deleted Internet Explorer. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fast forward a couple years and Defender is still nothing more than a joke. Now would you trust this....which is basically the SAME THING as Defender with your security? If you were smart you wouldn't.

I trust Microsoft to a degree....but the words Microsoft and security do not belong together at all.

Now to respond to your smarty pants remark there...I have dual boot. Best of both worlds.

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Add me in as another person with long term AV use that is recommending MSE as an option.

I've been pleasantly surprised at its quality and memory use.

Diane