What's a good virus protection program for Windows?

[emulatorloo]

Mostly a mac user, so I am not up on the greatest for Windows.

My Windows machine still has XP on it, and it came with Symantec anti-virus stuff. However it has expired so it is bugging me to resubscribe.

Is there something that would be better?

THANKS!

[mvd]

1. My recommendations

If you want to pay:

Avira Premium and Kaspersky have the best detection. Eset's NOD32 still has decent protection and feels more lightweight.

For free:

Avira Free or Avast Free.

I can no longer recommend Comodo because of this:

http://www.calendarofupdates.com/updates/index.php?showtopic=19279&st=50#entry80589

[ghostsofgiants]

2. I swear by Avast.

It is excellent.

[TroglodyteScholar]

15. Seconded...used it for er 6 or 7 years now?

Never a worry.

[Posteritatis]

16. Thirded (nt)

[NJmaverick]

3. Free ones would be AVG or Avast

Pay ones you can pick from Norton's, McAfee and a few others (Panda and Trend Micro to name a couple).

[sarge43]

4. Bit Defender has kept our machines clean. Much better than Symantec IMO. n/t

[pokerfan]

5. linux

[no name no slogan]

8. Linux is only free

if your time is worthless.

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html

[HopeHoops]

6. I've had good luck with Norton 360 (but read on).

But that's just MY luck. I've heard some real horror stories about it also. The new version is pretty cool - doesn't eat the processor as much as I suspected some earlier versions of doing. I've only got it installed on Vista boxes right now so I can't speak for how it works with XP and the entire Norton product line blew chunks on 98. Just my thoughts.

[BeachBaby]

7. Definitely Avast.

[dgibby]

9. I got rid of Norton and got McAfee instead. So far, so good.

[Q3JR4]

10. I've used AVG for a couple of years now and

don't really have any complaints.

Q3JR4.

[travelingtypist]

14. Same here. n/t

[mwooldri]

11. If you have Cable Internet often they supply something.

TW and Cablevision provide CA Security Suite, not too bad. ComCast and Cox provide McAfee.

Other free ones are Avira and Avast!

As for a good anti-virus solution... Ubuntu for your PC.

[old mark]

12. Comodo, freeware download. It's pretty good.

The Obama-Biden site uses a commercial version of it. Google it for info and downloads.

I have been using it for a while now - it is better than most anything else, certainly anything for free.

mark

[whistler162]

13. Symantec is bad..... has been for 20 years....

try http://www.rising-global.com/