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So I’ve been using NOD32 aka ESET Smart Security 4 and I absolutely love it. It is nothing like my experience with Norton or anything else. It doesn’t slow my computer down in any way so it’s great. I’m sold and would highly recommend it.
I will say I liked it enough to get my sister and cousin to install it on their computers and they are satisfied as well.
Plus my sister’s computer was starting to slow down and was fearing it was infected with something and now it works great after having been scanned with it.
Just thought I’d give an update and let everyone know how it went.
A little late, but I settled on BitDefender in 2007 after trying out and reading many reviews and scrutinizing CPU magazine’s reviews each time they talk of AV products. Norton 2009 is supposed to be the first decent Norton AV since Norton SV 2003, but I’m still skeptical and haven’t used it since Norton AV 2004, which was painful to use and computers with newer versions all putter around and hinder the computer. My second choice is Panda, and I use it for redundancy with their web-based AV.
For freebies, I like Antivir and BitDefender’s free offering. AVG is a really popular one, but once I tried Antivir, it really outperformed AVG.
If I can remember the worst AV product for producing false-positives, I’ll post that one. Just because hoards get detected/caught, it doesn’t mean it’s a good product and is actually catching anything…some AV intentionally flag files to give the impression of catching a file another product “didn’t”, or flag random programs the programmers personally dislike.
AVG has a free version you can download here
Ewwww, I hate AVG with a passion. With its crappy heuristics and high false positive rate – not to mention a couple BSODs I avoid this like the plague.
NOD32 <3
I was lucky enough to score a free year subscription to NOD32 Antivirus to use on my Windows 7 Release Candidate. So far, I am pretty happy with it. It is lightweight, and scans are fast. But I haven’t seen anything other than the lack of advertisements that puts it much above Avira and Avast’s free solutions.
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