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knave:
I've tried most of the popular ones, they all still do about the same, which is protect you mostly. I do add one level of security however...I browse and perform my day to day computing from a user level account and only log in as admin when needed. Without access to the registry the bad stuff can do very little.

ark_ader:
Granted with your website you need to have tools available to you to do maintenance.

I would suggest using a separate machine with a live distribution of Linux for just Internet use, or something with a temporary profile.

I do not trust anyone with my data anymore.  I am lucky enough to have machines spare that I can use with complete transparency.

No more eggs in one basket scenario for me.  I do use Norton 2012 in my server, but I do not experience any performance issues.

Norton 2010 was a big fat hungry pig though.   ;D

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on September 15, 2011, 04:36:57 pm ---I would suggest using a separate machine with a live distribution of Linux for just Internet use, or something with a temporary profile.

--- End quote ---

Nothing wrong with paranoia, but this might be a bit too much. As much as I hate it, I have to use ActiveX sometimes and some sites don't work right unless using IE.

Howard_Casto:
AVG is still the best.... it can slow down a punier system, but it's still the best.  It's the best because unlike MSE, it will usually catch rootkits and "your computer is infected" viruses and like MSE it's free. 

Never pay cash money for an anti-virus suite expecting it to be better than the free versions.  None of them are perfect so you should pay as little as possible.

BTW you should NEVER use a combination of resident anti-virus/anti-malware suites...  they will "fight" each other for control of your system and slow everything to a crawl.  Pick one and be done with it. 

saint:
Actually Hitman is specifically designed to work in conjunction with another AV. Interesting bit of work. Running MSE was a bit of an experiment. If it worked really solidly it would be an easy thing to setup on machines I have some responsibility for but don't want to have to support regularly (friends/family). Unfortunately I can't recommend it at this time. My computer is still acting flaky so I'm going to do a format/reload. Been running Windows 7 on it for about 6 months, it's been rock solid until this.

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