Everyone has their fav, but as too how reliable that fav is??? It is entirely subjective to how a person uses a pc. A gamer will not like Nortons or any of the other resource hogs because they need speed & the hogs are using those resources by scanning & watching everything.

A typical surfer won’t notice the slow down, though the typical user needs a program that does the work for them because the typical user won’t remember to scan every week or update or keep on top of keeping the pc clean of other misc stuff. So the typical user could have the best software protection in the world & it won’t mean anything if the user doesn’t have it set up to automatically do everything.

Still others go to every questionable site they can find & can have all the very best protection & they will still get nailed by nasties. Build a better mousetrap concept…

So it is very subjective to use. What you need is objective facts. Perhaps the most objective is consumer reports. They did a test of all the majors recently in Sept.

I also like pc magazine. Yes, they are corp & do like to make a $. But if their info is not consistantly reliable they won’t be making any more $ off magazine sales or advertising because the won’t have any credibility left. So I believe that their info to be reliable despite the ads.

So it comes down to how much you want to spend. You can spend $$$$ & not lift a finger once it’s set up, & you need to pony up some more $$$$ for relicensing. Or you can go the free route & spend a bit of time updating and running the software. There are many great reliable free products out there. Either way, you still need a layered approach to computer protection. Virus protection, firewall, spyware detection, adware protection & then a product that will catch trojans & other little nasties. Because no one product does it all despite their claims.

Whatever you do, keep your ms os’s up to date & get rid of IE & put Firefox on as a browser. Not using MS will solve alot of problems.