I feel that Kaspersky Antivirus 5 set at Maximum protection is the best for the following reasons:

- Updates DAILY (sometimes a few hours got new update)
- Scans for ALL KINDS OF VIRUS (most antivirus softwares like Norton and McAfee only give you updates based on your regional settings)
- Has intelligent scan ability (dosent scan same file the next time u run scan unless its been modified, thus reducing scan time; unlike mcafee or norton which totally dosent scan certain file types cos they think its an uncommon virus target)
- Scans all files in all types of archives (eg. .zip , .cab, etc etc)
- Real time scan will scan all files in the folder automaticly as u open the folder, it does this in the background, this will stop viruses even before you open the file
- Has won the best antivirus software award many many times
- Held a competition where they challenged hackers and programmers to try and make a virus that defeats Kaspersky..... nobody sucseeded.

The only bad thing about it is, the real time scan sometimes causes computer start up to be slower, and also sometimes causes the opening of folders to be slower.

Another bad thing is, Kaspersky Antivirus and Zone Alarm Firewall tends to clash, this will cause your com to crash and it'll give you BSOD even in XP !! I dunno abt other ppl, but this happens to me, so now i use Kaspersky Antivirus 5.0 and Kaspersky Anti Hacker 1.7 (Firewall).

Yeah, my laptop is only a 1.5 GHz Centrino, 515MB DDR RAM.

Yeah, updates download surprisingly fast and they install instantly upon download completion in the background, so it doesn't bother you. It also has automatic update which you can set to scan at any interval as the following:
Every hour / 3 hours / 6 hours / 12 hours / 1 day / 2 days / 3 days / 1 week

It's not a resource hog, it uses very little memory and cpu power.

Total scan time I noticed is slightly longer than Norton. The first Kaspersky scan you do will take a long time, but subsequent scans will be much faster because of their intelligent scan system.

Also, when I used to use Norton, I always kept it updated. But one day, with my friend's recommendation, I decided to shift to Kaspersky, upon completion of the first Kaspersky scan, there were 14 viruses and trojans detected in my laptop that Norton overlooked.

As for another one of my friends, I suggested to him to try Kaspersky because he felt that there were some viruses that his McAfee did not detect. After he did his first scan, Kaspersky detected a few trojans and viruses that McAfee ignored. Also one technician from Acer who attended to my friend's laptop before he used Kaspersky told my friend not to use McAfee because it doesn't scan thoroughly.

Personally, I'd recommend Kaspersky to anybody. As long as you have a P4 comp or laptop, you should be fine with Kaspersky.

well, you can reinstall the norton u have and then uninstall it again, i should work, if not try locating the file thats running in the background and end task it

then delete the file manually. It should solve ur problem. If it dosent, get one of your PC Savvy friends to do it for you or email norton.

You should really really use antivirus. Spyware detectors, firewalls and updates alone arent enough. Malicious codes can still make its way into your comp. Sometimes even the files you download may have viruses in them.

If you're not hardcore on security, maybe you should AT LEAST get the free AVG anti virus.

Yeah, I agree with you. It's just that when I use a com, I want to be able to do anything and everything, download anything, suref where-ever without having to worry about viruses. You can say that I have mad risk taking habbits of downloading stuff. But I only do it because if it's a virus, my Kaspersky Antivirus 5 will stop the download halfway and delete the file if it's a virus.

But what you say is true, it really depends on how you use the comp. But if you want total freedom, it's better to have an AV software. What do you think ?

armour is not malaysian, its by a company called Norman Antivirus.