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2010 Anti Virus Poll

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Still using Avast!

Edit - Yes, thanks for the poll, and Mark for reminding me of my manners...

Nice job with the poll Kim.
My vote goes to Avast 5.

Thanks for the great poll kim

Using Avast on my XP Pro box and MSE on my new laptop. Happy with both.

Thanks for the poll! Can't tell you how useful BBR's polls have been to me over the years.

Using Norton Anti-Virus 2010 on one computer, and Norton Internet Security 2010 on the other.

Happy Avast user here

Great job on the poll lil polar bear!

Thanks for another great AV poll, kim

NOD32 AV Business Ed.

5 computers and avast!5 installed on all of them.

1 Pro and 4 FREE
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Nice poll kim

Avast 4 on one home machine
Avast 5 on the other (just reformatted and it was the download)

While it isn't technically av, I consider Filealyzer an "other". Handy little app.
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Was using MSE. But just switched to Avira Personal.

KAV still and still and still....
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da Cajun Darn I hate Malware

Thank you for the poll, Kim!

Using avast and MSE here (on different computers).

Great poll Kim!

Still using Avast after many years - v4.8 on the older one and Avast 5 on the newer.

Using Avast 4 years now and love it! No problems installing, configuring, updating or using the new Avast5 Free AV on my Win7 x64 system.

Well done kim

Nod32 & Avast Free for online checks

I voted for Avira as I still use Avira personal version 8 on my XP machine. That version goes unsupported at the end of March. I'm not sure what I will be using after that. Possibly Avira 10 (I am a beta tester for it) or Avast as I really like the new GUI and it was the GUI that always kept me from using Avast in the past. I would continue to use Avira 8 on XP if Avira would continue supporting it as I don't like how ver 9 runs on XP and ver 10, I want to see the gold version before deciding if I will be using it. I do like the latest iteration of Avira 10 GUI (GUI matters a lot to me because I frequently open my AV). The updating problem for the free version has been solved so that is no longer an issue when choosing a free AV but there is still Avira's nag screen and ver 10 has some major changes.
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When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson

The list of options seems a little lacking compared to last years poll.

I'll add my thanks too for the poll, and to all the respondents. It's valuable because this stuff changes all the time -- last year's top performer might be this year's crap, or vice versa!

I tend to go with Norton/Symantec for most systems, but I still have faith in Kaspersky as having the best detection, only I've had performance issues with some apps with KAV installed. That's why my current answer to the question "what's the best anti-virus in 2010?" is another question, "Best for what? Who's the user? How knowledgeable are they? What are the risk exposures?"

A friend of mine recently got two computers infected with a new variant of the annoying "Internet Security 2010" malware, which can be tough to remove and I was the one stuck doing it, so I'm as appreciative of good AV's and safe computing practices as anyone!
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"A dog is like a child who never grows old ... always there to love and be loved" -- Aaron Katcher

MSE at the top already? I like it, but I didn't have any idea it caught on so well, so fast.
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avast! Pro 5.0.418, with all browsers set to run in sandbox.

Well done on the poll.

Still using Avast after 3 years.

I'm still running Symantec Corporate edition on most of my machines. A couple are now using Microsoft Security Essentials though.

AVG Free and Threatfire on 2 machines.

Atm F-Secure Client Security 9 and Norton 2010.

Avast 5 on two PC's. Loving the new version.

MSE on 4 computers not one hitch . Had used Nod . Loved Nod but Like MSE better ..