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Unobtrusive Antivirus?

There are plenty of free AV that you can try out - I use both Avira and Avast and like them both. The only thing with free AV is a nag screen to get you to upgrade to the paid version but I don't really care about the pop-ups.

Seems to be more pop-ups with Avira than Avast.
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reply to joako
This is going to draw fire

MSE is really lightweight and unobtrusive, although its coverage is, uh, unspectacular.

Exactly why I stopped using it. But I don't understand why butchering Google search results and popping up "safe pay" (whatever the hell that is) has anything to do with having spectacular coverage.

So is there anything like MSE in terms of obtrusiveness that has better detection?
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You probably need to look at something in the enterprise segment. Bread and butter in the retail segment is obtrusive features.

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reply to joako
Deleted.

After posting I re-read OP and saw I misinterpreted the main point and therefore what I posted was really unintentionally off topic. Hence the delete.

Sorry.

reply to joako
ESET here. The day of a "set and forget" A/V are pretty much gone.

reply to joako
I seem to be one of few that use Panda Cloud AV. I have found that it works well for my system...along with the other security features I have. It is totally unobtrusive, IMHO.

reply to siljaline
I use (on my one windows machine) and refer eset for windows people.

reply to joako
I'm using Avira Premium now (got a good deal on 3 licenses), but I install Avira Free or Avast Free on any machine I service that needs an AV.

I find Avira to be light, unobtrusive, and offering excellent protection (a look at test run by AV comparatives or AV Test will verify that claim). Most of the machines I am fixing are not used by "techies", so the fact that I receive no complaints or issues from them regarding Avira says it all. A few have even decided to go premium based on the good experience they've had with it.

One trick - to prevent those annoying ads to buy from coming up in the free version, you can block the .exe's that run ads from running (avnotify.exe and ipmgui.exe in the Program Files\Avira folder).

The only disadvantage (for now) is the lack of Windows 8 support as of yet. Its forthcoming, and hopefully the changes needed to do not affect the quality of the product.
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reply to joako
You will hear a lot of negative about this one, but I have enjoyed how unobtrusive it really is, even IF the program is a little bulky from my read, have never had problems with it, with malware, nor running the heaviest graphic program on my machines...I like NIS. »us.norton.com/internet-security

hey you can always tell if you have malware going on if norton randomly stops working

reply to dandelion
Can you install just the antivirus from Norton Internet Security?

I can get I think it's McAffee from AT&T (home) or Norton from Comcast (work)
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reply to joako
People have made lots of good suggestions in this thread, but I would like to point out that many antivirus programs can be modified via settings to make them less obtrusive. When I was using Bitdefender a few months back, I was bothered by the exact things you mentioned. I turned off the search result notifications and turned off the SafePay thing and then found Bitdefender tolerable from the annoyance perspective. I started running into other problems, however, and unloaded it and started using a different product.

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reply to joako
Give Webroot SecureAnywhere a try. Choose your flavor »www.webroot.com/En_US/consumer-trials.html and if you like it there is a sale ATM. »www.webroot.com/En_US/sites/advspecial.html

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reply to joako
I had NIS that I bought for 4-5 years with my XP and with this new computer (Win 7) just got it through comcast ..the year free one..but dont' think you can use just the virus protector, worth a try though. I don't believe in a single security program for protection however. I also have a host file and use firefox with adblocker and noscript. Good luck on whichever one you pick and someone mentioned you need to adjust most you have. I did some minor adjustments on NIS to tell it what I liked.
PS Never had the problems with it you mentioned. Hopefully that doesn't mean you have malware
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reply to joako
The weird thing is that I don't see any single mention of Kaspersky, it's either because you know something about it that makes it bad which I don't know or it's not that popular.

I've tried many of them including Norton, Avira, Avast, Node32 and more but to be honest I never been comfortable and pleased with the results of any on the early mentioned. Then I got a recommendation via email to try Kaspersky. I am with them since years. Give it a shot

For a home user, try KS Internet Security 2013 »www.kaspersky.com/safe?icid=bnnr···sfe_area

For business, try Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business; Advanced »www.kaspersky.com/business-secur···advanced

Sometime I thank for using OS X for personal usage. Yes, it's not completely clean but Apple is solving such problem in free software updates. – This is irrelevant but I felt like expressing