My free trial with Panda Antivirus Platinum is twenty two days away from expiring, and I'm not 100% sold on them, there were some less than satisfactory events. I have a grand total of six months experience with my home computer, so I'm going to have to rely on our comunity for some advise. I realize that it may be difficult to get a non-biased answer here, but I'm looking for recommendations about antivirus providers. What kind of prices are normal, and for how long? What about the freebees like AVG? I have about three weeks to make a choice, so any and all help would be very much appreciated. Thanks...dcc
dcc 88 Posting Virtuoso
dlh6213 27 Posting Maven Team Colleague
Nod32 is probably the best AV you can get, but AVG is pretty good for the price :) (at least it won't cost you anything to try it).
For more discussions on the subject, see this thread:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread22271-nod32.html
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
AVG free edition is perfectly adequate for home or single PC installation and use.
jwenting 1,889 duckman Team Colleague
I like Kaspersky. Excellent security, easy to use, and good performance.
Not the cheapest but certainly one of the best.
I had Panda before and was happy with it but had trouble getting my account extended and customer (and even sales) support was completely unresponsive.
dcc 88 Posting Virtuoso
Hi guys...Thanks for the information and suggestions, I will check these out. It would appear that I'm not the only one who took issue with Pandas lack of customer support.
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dlh6213 27 Posting Maven Team Colleague
Here's a detailed review of different antivirus programs:
http://www.virusbtn.com/library/files/4pg_reprint.pdf
kleinbaas 0 Newbie Poster
Try the Anti-Virus from , it comes with a professional Anti-Spyware and updates itself automatically (free for 1 year) and it scans in the background - using less resources than most!
If it finds a virus it brings up a hazard sign and a siren sounds - v cool :-)
I use it because it managed to install on my infected PC (when Norton and McAfee wouldn't) and it found the virus straight away plus it has kept my PC clean since. Get it at or
Hope this helps!
douchrti 0 Newbie Poster
Ive been using BitDefender for a while now. I like it. Its the first all-in-one Ive ever used.
Before that I used Avast and Ad-aware with Sygate Firewall.
digitalocksmith 52 Posting Whiz in Training
I like to stay away from the resource hogs such as Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, Panda etc! (even AVG has become this way, much to my dissappointment)
Also avoid security suites as a whole for pretty much the same reasons.
My personal choice remains the same after years of testing, for use with both XP and Vista.....and for the best part its the best 'beggarware', ooops sorry, 'freeware', available on the market. Even better than most paying AV software......Avast Home Edition available here
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Avast_Home_Edition_d1968.html
It contains two GUI user interfaces, a resource friendly 'footprint', has an audible voice warning system, a mindblowing virus database (without the false positives) and updates regularly in audible format......"virus database has been updated" in that lovely American overtone!
As i said, Its Vista compatible and works a treat! :cool:
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