What AV are you running?

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Trooper Premium join:2005-05-18 USA	What AV are you running? Hi folks, I am curious what AV everyone is running these days. I am normally an Eset guy, but my license is going to expire soon. Would prefer something light and with good detection/cleanup capabilities. I have used Avast in the past, and it was usually pretty good. Just a few fp's over the years. I am hearing good things about BitDefender of late, and I still think Avira is pretty strong. Looking for some recommendations for a Windows 7 machine running x64. Thanks folks. Cheers P.S. Not sure if I am going to renew Eset, so looking for some insight. -- This space for rent.
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marti Color outside the lines Premium,MVM join:2001-12-14 Houston, TX kudos:5	Eset on computers; Kaspersky on smart phone & Nexus7 Tablet. I would never use a free AV on my systems, nor my friend's systems. -- Team Discovery
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georgermct optimum. join:2000-05-12 Fairfield CT	reply to Trooper Kaspersky
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MarkAW Barry White Premium join:2001-08-27 Canada kudos:16	reply to Trooper Avast Pro on my Win 7 Pro. Avast free on my Win 7 Home Prem. Avast free on my Win XP Pro. Avast free on my 2 64bit Vista Home Prem.
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KoRnGtL15 Premium join:2007-01-04 Grants Pass, OR	reply to Trooper NIS 2013 Windows 8 64 bit NIS 2013 Windows 7 64 bit Avira Free Windows 7 32 bit
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Mele20 Premium join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI kudos:4	reply to MarkAW Avast has too many FP's. It says there is a trojan in WinPatrol. I never thought I would do this but I now use Windows Defender on Win 8. I don't get FP's, I don't get my AV locking HostsMan when supposedly it, by default, excludes the hosts file from scanning, I don't have a new AV refusing to install because I have Spyware Blaster installed, etc. I don't have problems with Windows Defender. Yeah, I know its detection rate is not very good but it doesn't give me serious headaches for no reason like every other AV does. -- When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
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antdude A Ninja Ant Premium,VIP join:2001-03-25 United State kudos:4	reply to Trooper We need a new AV poll for 2013!
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lordpuffer Comfortably Numb Premium join:2004-09-19 Rio Rancho, NM kudos:1	reply to Trooper Avast Pro for my Win 7 machine. Avast Free on my Nexus 7 and Galaxy Nexus
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SparkChaser Premium join:2000-06-06 Downingtown, PA kudos:3 Reviews: ·Verizon FiOS	reply to Trooper NIS on an XP and 2 Win 7 laptops It saved my butt this morning. I occasionally get a 'join my group' email from LinkedIn, so when I got one today I didn't think anything of it. It was a virus. Fortunately Norton stopped it as soon as I clicked read. -- -- -- "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
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lordpuffer Comfortably Numb Premium join:2004-09-19 Rio Rancho, NM kudos:1	I get those LinkedIn emails every day. The only one that is not Spam goes to my inbox in Gmail. Gmail marks all of the others as Spam. Good block by Norton!
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OCZ The Former Pocket join:2009-05-15 Saint Paul, MN	reply to Trooper Microsoft Security Essentials on all 3 computers in the house.
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CovMac Premium join:2000-11-06 Covington, LA	+1
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Hyrules join:2006-07-19 Gatineau, QC kudos:1	reply to Trooper NOD32 V5.
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gugarci Premium join:2004-02-25 Lyndhurst, NJ	reply to Trooper Emsisoft on my main PC's, my others PC's use the free version of Avast.
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CylonRed Premium,MVM join:2000-07-06 Bloom County	reply to Trooper Avira free on both of my PC's.
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Bob Account deleted join:2012-07-22 New Jersey	reply to Trooper McAfee Internet Security
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PX Eliezer Premium join:2008-08-09 Hutt River kudos:13 Reviews: ·callwithus ·voip.ms ·Optimum Voice ·Vitelity VOIP ·Gizmo5	reply to Trooper said by Trooper: I am curious what AV everyone is running these days. AV is probably the [least] important part of a balanced security breakfast. Hardware/router firewall, software firewall especially with malware defense, HIPS and/or other system hardening, keeping the OS and all software updated, running the OS with limited privileges, disabling Java, using broswers other than IE, disabling Javascript in your browsers, using the anti-malware features in your browsers, being careful on what e-mails you open, being careful when you plug someone else's flash drive or other data device into your machine, etc., etc.... By the time something reaches your AV, that's bad news if it hasn't been stopped by then....
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SparkChaser Premium join:2000-06-06 Downingtown, PA kudos:3 Reviews: ·Verizon FiOS	said by PX Eliezer: AV is probably the [least] important part of a balanced security breakfast. Hardware/router firewall, software firewall especially with malware defense, HIPS and/or other system hardening, keeping the OS and all software updated, running the OS with limited privileges, disabling Java, using broswers other than IE, disabling Javascript in your browsers, using the anti-malware features in your browsers, being careful on what e-mails you open, being careful when you plug someone else's flash drive or other data device into your machine, etc., etc.... By the time something reaches your AV, that's bad news if it hasn't been stopped by then.... Okay, I'm here to learn. If you take a look at my post above, what should I be using to stop that type of intrusion? -- -- -- "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
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Hyrules join:2006-07-19 Gatineau, QC kudos:1 Reviews: ·FreePhoneLine ·Videotron ·ELECTRONICBOX	reply to Trooper Wow Blackhole is currently one of the worst malware running around. Since the attack seems to have been blocked there is not much you can do. You must have visited an infected website. Keep you computer up to date as well as your antivirus and you should be fine. But even if you had 42 software or hardware firewall protecting your computer you could get infected anyway. Antivirus are there to slow down the unavoidable. No antivirus or antimalware software is perfect. 0 days virus and malware are the worst. you will get infected even if you av is up to date. that's stupid but if you dont want to get infected dont use your computer. -- - Technicien en informatique [A+] - Chasseur d'orage
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SparkChaser Premium join:2000-06-06 Downingtown, PA kudos:3 Reviews: ·Verizon FiOS	said by Hyrules: Wow Blackhole is currently one of the worst malware running around. Since the attack seems to have been blocked there is not much you can do. You must have visited an infected website. Yes, the website was part of the bogus LinkedIn email. I just clicked the email. never saw the site. NAV lit up and blocked it. I hope The IP address shows up as being Russia -- -- -- "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
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