What's the best Virus Protection Software?

[Nathan Caroland]

Alrighty, looking for virus protection software. What's the best one out there that doesn't eat up system resources?

[matty1001]

An Apple Mac :P

I'v heard Norton is a good one, a few of my mates have that one.

[Nathan Caroland]

Norton is a pig on resources, good, but a pig.

[Ritual]

Norton takes over your computer! It may protect you from viruses, but it makes you pull out your hair and want to throw the computer out the window.

F-Secure is better, but not great. Makes the computer slow in start-up, for instance.

We're trying out Panda at work. It seems to work well.

Oh, and Matty... Macs are the new arena for hackers. I've read that the number of viruses for Macs have increased quite a bit the last year.

[EricJ]

damnit, it erased my post here....good free one: http://www.free-av.com/

[supervike]

I use AVG....so far so good! And its a freebie as well.

http://free.grisoft.com/

[lauth81]

damnit, it erased my post here....good free one: http://www.free-av.com/

I can second that. It's a good one, it's free und if you want additional features, it's cheap to upgrade. Using it for years now and had never problems.

[Skya]

I'll second the use of AVG not being to bad on the resources end.

[Hinton]

I'll third the use of AVG. Been using it for years and only once had a problem (that was incurred by someone else).

[johnboyjjb]

AVG has effectively handled every virus I have ever downloaded while "testing" software.