Hi all,

I wanted people's option on viruse software, with so many out there what one is the best ? does it matter if its free or you pay  for it ? at the moment I use AVG. I never had any problems with it but I do get people saying well its free so its crap. I just wanted other people option on what viruse software they think is best.

I agree I mean I have had AVG for many years and never had any problems with it.

Your argument that you've been using "X" AV for so many years and you haven't had any problems, that is, you didn't had any virus or any other malicious program in your system is inherently flawed. May be your AV didn't catch many malware and since it didn't detect them, it didn't reported to you and so that you thought that there is no problem with your computer. So, don't consider yourself secure just because your AV didn't report any problems.
Got my point ?

shakuni,

 inherently flawed???

 I just gave my option and just because I said I used this software and did not have problems does not me I was 100% secure and I think just about everyone here knows this... The original poster was asking about peoples opinion on AV software.

Yes we all know if a computer is turned on it's possibly vulnerable to many security risks...

Sorry to reply in a flame like manor but the whole "got my point?" thing just rubbed me wrong.

Brian

I'm sorry slimjim100 if it offended you, it was not meant to be for you.
I was just pointing out the general notion of people that since their AV and firewall are not giving alerts, it means that their systems are safe. It is obviously flawed.

From the standpoint of what seems to be catching the emerging threats, I'd have to go with AVG but for a slightly different reason.  When we've been seeing infections that occur within a few days of a 0-day, AVG has been what we've used to triage them.  Our major commercial anti-virus I've been less than pleased with lately as it hasn't detected many of the variants as they come out.  When I find new stuff, the first place I head to is virustotal.com and see what picks it up before I start submitting to our av vendors (we have a few levels of av), and AVG seems to almost always have defs out which detect it.  Clam seems to pick up less than AVG, but seems to have better integration with other products if you aren't using windows.  On a side note, if you think something is a virus, chuck it at virustotal.com and see what comes back.  Also, if you are having to deal with triage work, check out http://trinityhome.org/Home/blog.php?front_id=15 .  It's a neat distro with 3 different AV's on there including AVG free, and so far when we've had windows boxes that we've had a hard time cleaning, trinity kicked their butt.

I'd definitely say Clam on Linux. Or for that matter, just Linux