Best Antivirus?

i am honestly not a huge fan of bitdefender. my personal favorite got eaten by Norton those poor poor souls... it was PCTools spyware doctor + anti, and it was pretty beast (not that i ever really needed it for more than strange colored cookies ;) )
it also came with a registry fixer called Registry Mechanic and that was a monster of an awesome program, i used it almost every other day just to keep everything in tip top. now i use bitdefender and it saddens me almost every day i launch my computer... but i payed for it because everyone said its a beast. and because the registry cleaner that came with bitdefender is such a pile of rotting trash i got CCleaner, i recommend that guy too, and that ones FREE. as far as other antivirus/malware programs go, im not sure i was a pctools faithful for somewhere around 5 years... and most antivirus programs murder your computer and do almost nothing... soooo im actually going to watch these polls and see what everyone says here.

i use trend micro officescan, probably i'm the one and only here... i don't really like it too much as well...

a brain

I personally like Avast Antivirus best (both the free and paid versions are very nice) but there are some other good ones. Kaspersky, Norton and McAfee are all OK, too. AVG is nice but I've found that it tends to clog up some system files which I don't understand for the life of me. Here's a link to Avast if you're interested: http://www.avast.com/en-us/index

Avast for me :D

Windows Defender.

Linux ;)

Advanced systemcare with antivirus

I have Kaspersky and it's a great anti virus... I feel safe with it, frequent updates...

I personally prefer AIO security suits and I use Norton 360 since it also has a firewall and a tuneup component.
As a free solution I always recommend MS Security Essentials and from my own experience (and I do have some years as a pro) I never encounter any problems with it.
However the best solution to avoid threats is to use your brain

I prefer a condom

kaspersky internet security

kasperky rlz

I personally use Avast Internet Security and have no problems so far.

Trend Micro Titanium

kaspersky pure 3.0

lol this post is old

Real-World Protection Test (March 2013)

Winners (100%):
-Emisoft
-F-Secure
-G Data
-Kaspersky
-Quihoo

ESET NOD32, if anyone suggests anything else they are indubitably wrong.

Kaspersky FTW!

I would say Kaspersky.

I have used and personally tested on virtual box most AV out there, BitDefender and Kaspersky are by far my most prefered. Have not tried ESET right but have heard good things. Norton is the EA of the anti virus world and needs to be avoided like the plague, just because its on TV and on every single computer you buy at a store does NOT mean its any good. I would go without an AV before I ever let anything norton install.
Get BitDefender or Kaspersky the paid versions are of course better but the free ones are not bad either.

IMO, the best free antivirus is Microsoft Security Essentials. I've used Avast and Trend in the past. It is important not to have more than one antivirus software running at the same time. They end up conflicting with each other, and it's just not a good thing.

Malwarebytes is free and it doesn't automatically scan to take up computer resources and you can just use it to scan when you think you have a virus. I find it really hard to actually get viruses these days.