"Yukon Jack" <> wrote in message news:...
> "Robert Moir" <> wrote in message
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>> But I'm sure people here have horror stories about each of those, and
>> different suggestions for what product you should use (and some halfwits
>> will even claim their preferred one is "the best")...
>
> Well, obviously the one that detects the most virus's and has the least
> false detections is the best. I use AVG on Vista and Avast on Win2K but
> that is because I am a cheap bastage. From what I have read Kaspersky and
> Nod32 get the highest ratings.
>
> If you want free though I prefer AVG as it is less resource hungry
> compared to Avast. Avast has better protection modules but I find it slows
> down my boot up time and my web browsing compared to AVG. Nod32 is
> designed with gamers in mind so uses the least resources and is a very
> good scanning engine too. Never used it yet but am going by my own
> research on Antivirus progs. One thing I don't like are obtrusive AV
> progs, like Norton.
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