Every week, it seems a new virus threatens to hijack computers around the globe. While I wonder why anyone would want to wreak havoc with someone else's computer system, every computer user must face the possibility of an infection and get proper PC protection.

At work, your company probably has an antivirus system that protects you from most new viruses and an IT department that keeps it updated. But what protection do you use at home?

Fortunately, there are a lot of antivirus programs on the market that you can download and start using right away. These programs scan all the files on your computer and any that you receive in e-mail, on floppy disks, and (gasp!) from downloads. They also come with autoupdating features so that you always have protection from the latest malicious strains.

Here are my favorites for protecting your home computer against deadly computer viruses.


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I have the Free AVG and it is brilliant.

Light on my resources, effective (haven't had a single problem yet and it is free! (did I say that again?)

I prefer avast, it's free and it works, but it does use a lot of memory (pop3, p2p, standard and web scanner).
I realy like that it scans every webpage I open so it can detect viri before they get on to my pc.
Going to see what Bitdefender does.

Also tried AVG, it failed HARD on the mail virus test:
eicar.com was the attachement !!!

Now running bitdefender free, no on resident scanner tough .

To HardFreak:

That is fine by me.

I never use net provider e-mail, not safe enough and I would have to go to all this trouble, I can't be bothered.

I'd rather use internet based e-mail (yahoo, hotmail) and have ease of mind.

Thus AVG is top in my books because of the light load on my resources (especially after some tweaking).

AVG still does the trick.

Never ever had virusses with it, only trojans which AVG seems to have problems with.

AVG combined with Norton2004 overhere.

NOD32 here, very low on resources. I really don't notice it is running. Absolutely love it.

Virusscan enterprise mcafee 8.0.0i
Don't need anything else.

What's NOD32?

As for Trojans I use 2 Anti-Spyware (Counterspy + Spy Sweeper), hopefully they can do the trick.