which is best antivirus

I think Avast is pretty good. Runs without much resource hogging in the background.

 

Malware bytes.

 

Is not an antivirus program.

 

ESET NOD32 Antivirus 7 is is an award-winning antivirus with fast, powerful detection, I have it on my 2 notebooks. I have other antivirus tools too but they're not powerful, ESET is the single best Antivirus I've ever used

 

Norton killed our old Vista PC a few years back!!
For the record, my husband has a customer who is a bigwig in Microsoft here in the UK, he unofficially recommends either Kaspersky or Fsecure. We have Fsecure on our main (win 7) PC and it works a treat.

 

I use both Avast and AVG, and I think that these are actually the best antivirus software.

Kaspersky is also a good software, but it makes my computer to slow and this is a problem especially when I've got to work.

 

don't have any antivirus software on my windows systems, don't need it, I have a firewall program and extensions on my browsers and I don't download crazy sh1t

 

best antivirus: run linux live cd and execute the command

Code:

tee </dev/zero >/dev/sda

... then install linux distro of your choice.

 

Traditional? ESET. But you want better protection, and you are loaded, try Bromium.

Anything that sandboxes is the trend now. Hitman Pro is doing some of that, but I still don't think it is as smooth as it should be. Bromium is badass if you are a corporation. It is similar to Cisco FireAMP products. It focuses more on sandboxing your apps, and has modules that focus on perimeter monitoring rather than local machine (although it does that as well). This way you drop in a virtual appliance to watch your network, and the machine client that is small and doesn't chew up all your resources on your workstations.

I will agree with some people that for a traditional AV product, ESET is it. I have trialed them all. I liked Vipre, and Kaspersky too although KES is resource intensive. Malwarebytes actually now has a corporate product with a management console and everything. I tried it out about a year ago, but it was in it's infancy and wasn't ready for prime time. For other anti-malware, SuperAntiSpyware is great as is Hitman Pro. I actually prefer SASW to MWB. Norton products have definitely gone south over the last several years, but I see this happening to any AV product that doesn't change with the current landscape.

I will also agree with a recent post stating traditional AV products aren't as necessary if you secure your network and don't screw around on the internet much. Lock your FW down and allow access by MAC and password, and you should be in decent shape. Just have a free manual scanner to run on occasion for any junk that happens to come down.