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2011 Anti Virus Poll

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avast!

3 AIS Licenses

2 FREE Licenses
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I mainly Run Prevx with SafeOnline but use NOD32 & VIPRE in VM's along with Prevx!

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avast on most of the home systems (Free)

Microsoft Security Essentials Free on my Personal Laptop and Desktop PC

symantec

Recently installed F-secure security suite and very happy i did.

Very nice poll Trip!!
thank you
avast! all day

Symantec for about as long as I can remember, on Win XP, Vista, and Win 7. Over the course of many years (and successively newer versions) it's protected me many times but let me down only once, when some kind of relatively stubborn but not really damaging malware did make it onto one system.

This was a few years ago, and I ended up having to install Kaspersky which was the only thing I could find capable of actually removing the infection. Ran that for a while and was very impressed, but went back to Symantec after I concluded that KAV was just too intrusive in the way it interfered with some programs, which always had to be put on an exceptions list. For me, Symantec is a better balance between effectiveness and intrusiveness.

Still, KAV at the time was so good overall that I'm surprised the poll is coming up with such low usage. Maybe it's the cost?
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MSE on my desktop, Avast on my wife's laptop.

Both are excellent at what they do!

Avast on 2 computers
MSE on the other 3

Symantec Endpoint Protection on the desktop.
VIPRE on the laptop

NIS 2011

Norton Internet Security 2011.

Avast 6 on all 4 of my Windows systems, my Linux i use avast 4.

Avast 6 free on all systems.

Avira on the desktop, MSE on the laptop....

MSE on Desktop, Avast on Laptop - both seem to get the job done. Had AntiVir Avira for a while, but it just got annoyingly intrusive and the popups when updating got old - very fast.

I have no use for such silliness.. "none"..

Avast on my Win7 Pro 64 bit PCs.
Microsoft Security Essentials on my lone XP Pro PC.
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Last two years I've been with Prevx 3 paid, but this year I've went with NOD32 4 paid.

I just wanted to test the waters. Depending on how NOD32 does I might be back to Prevx next year.

Nice poll Triple Helix

I voted for AVG again this year. It's always done well by me and I've never had a reason to change.
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Thank you for the poll! I use Avast Pro Anti-Virus on my PC.

Nice poll!

I have been using Avira for over four years now. I have beta tested versions 8, 9,10 (Suite) but I use version 8 free on my host machine and version 9 free on a virtual machine.
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I admit to a soft sport for Avast and still use it on several machines, but also have been giving Microsoft Security Essentials a shot. Not sure that I care for it, on my EeePC (AMD Based) it takes a lot of CPU and I mean a lot that Avast never did.
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On my Windows machines I have Avast installed.
On my Linux machines, I have ClamAV installed.

When I need to check on a friends machine because they complain of problems, I use VIPRERescue.
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Avast Free Verizon and Norton 2011

Avira free.

NOD32

Avast has been quite solid for me.

Left Norton Internet Security 2011 for Vipre . I never had one pc problem with Norton. Vipre is only one week old on my pc.
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