Which is the best antivirus software avail in the market that is user friendly and not system heavy?? help!!?

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• 1 crawfishtwo // Jun 7, 2008

  you are going to get many different answers to this question.
  there are a lot of good free ones on the web that you can
  download that are free and wont slow your system down.
  i changed from threatfire to avg free,i like avg better.my
  suggestion is try some of the free ones out and see which
  one you like the best.

• 2 Soccer Dave // Jun 7, 2008

  The strongest free protection for your computer is:
  Comodo Pro (firewall) and AVG 8.0 Free Edition (anti-virus).

  More user friendly option:
  ZoneAlarm (firewall) requires less setting up then Comodo pro

  All available from download.com

  Would also recommend that you use a safer browser like Firefox, and download additional anti-spyware software my favourite is Ad-aware 2008.

  I recently removed my McAfee firewall and installed Comodo Pro, its the best firewall I've ever used and comes top in leaktests (see below) if you are getting too many warnings turn the defence + setting to clean computer.

  http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php

  (Don't use AntiVir, a lot of people recommended Avira AntiVir to me so I removed AVG 8.0 Free Edition and installed AntiVir but it would not update, the forums are full of people having the same problem)

• 3 Kelly Wright // Jun 7, 2008

  As to antivirus software:
  Kaspersky
  NOD32
  are known to be very powerful AV engines. Both use little resources.
  However, I dislike integrated security suites that all vendors seem to be offering now.
  I prefer single antivirus (takes less space and is easier to configure), separate antispyware (easy to change when it's not part of a huge suite) and firewall. This allows a very flexible configuration.

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