kaspersky is not free...

the word "greatest" cannot be simply used as u never try all other solutions yet
6 months without any viruses is not a great achievement, i think most of us can do it also...it is highly depend on the way you surf the net

i think he means sygate...

http://www.clamav.net/
dude...google it

none...i believe

just ignore his post...
he probably has no idea what he is talking about

I was testing AVAST, and i noticed that the speed of downloading in limewire being reduced tremendously to 4-5KBps (compared to 40-50KBps before this)

I uninstalled it and install antivir back, everything back to normal

Anyone can clarify this with me?

Yup....that is the problem
I have the firewall, I have spyware scanners already

All I need is just a simple antivirus
I don't need another all-in-one antivirus that provides all the repeated features in my firewall and spyware detectors

I'm using antivir happily now

This thread is unpinned

But still, keep all the antivirus discussions in this thread instead of opening another "Recommend-me-an-antivurs" thread

Another free antivirus (chinese)
金山毒霸2005 (15MB)

Not really tried it, but this brand has got some reputation in mainland china

http://db.kingsoft.com/db2005/

Seriously, you can live without antivirus given that you always update your PC and have enough common sense in surfing the web (as in do not simply download doubtful files, avoid visiting potentially malicious websites etc....)

But it is better to be safe than sorry, so you might want to install antivirus for security-wise.

Just get AVG/Avast/Antivir if you are not ready to pay anything for antivirus.

Not quite agree with this...
I have antivirus installed on my compter and haven't encountered any virus for ages already

I just installed it for safety purpose and my PC didn't infected with virus for quite a long time already

It really depends on HOW you use the computer, Internet is just as dangerous as your surfing behavior. Antivirus just acts as a guard to prevent your PC from getting infected.

Just my 2cents...

Did you read his question?
He said he can't uninstall NAV trial, and now you tell him to uninstall again

Perhaps you should define what does it mean by "not so gud"
You can't expect much from free stuff anyway (I don't mean open source)

If you were to pay for the AVG professional edition, I would suggest you to buy other brand of antivirus instead

Nod32, NortonAV or Kaspersky have higher ratings and I believe either of them can do you a better job when it comes to killing viruses and trojans (due to higher detection rate).

It's just my 2 cents and I might be wrong.

Most of the computer users I know, include those are not that tech-savvy still favour using antivirus like McAfee, Norton or PC-cillin...

Not much of them know NOD32 and Kaspersky

I'm running it in my home stand-alone machine to replace Antivir

Not a bad antivirus, very effecient when it comes to removing virus...haven't experienced any issue so far.

Sorry, I'm not using MS Outlook so I'm not able to provide you input on this

Other than this, I have no conflict problem like you experienced in v9. Can still receive Email with thunderbird without any problem, P2P works like a charm as well.

Great job dude
Online virus scanning is really an option to be considered when you're hopeless

Anyways, mind telling me how did you scan virus online while your IE crashed everytime you open it? Were you using other browser? 'coz i notice most online scanners need IE because of the activeX thingy.

Running two antivirus or two firewalls is not recommended because there might be conflicts between one another.

But I believe it's okay to have more than one spyware cleaners installed in your system.

My office is using trendmicro
But I'm not sure how effecient is it, might ask our IT manager if I had chance