What antivirus do you use?

[SantaClaus]

After trying all the usual memory and CPU hogging suspects, I can fully recommend Vipre.

[wim121]

Sticking your fingers in your ears and chanting "I've got a Mac" doesn't actually act as a deterrent.

The iPhone may well be responsible for a whole slew of Mac nasties as MacOsX gets more popular.

Yes I laughed quite hard at the option "none - I have a mac". Mac's are more common for getting infections than one would think. The problem is as well the inexperience of some of macs users. Most linux users, have a working IT knowledge and tend to be better at avoiding infections.

At the moment on my main laptop, Im using linux, so no av (as I dont mess about without protection) with xp running on a virtual machine. Several other machines such as xp, win7, w23k on the server.

On the server and XP rigs I have an old version of CA which is extremely stable and has a very small footprint and some of the best virus defs out there from CA.

[Sysman]

My ISP has offered me a 2 year free subscription of F-Secure (to soften the blow of a small price hike) for a single machine, so I'm wondering if it's any good.

Has anyone here got experience, favourable or otherwise of F-Secure?

[PAH]

But maybe malicious software does not really exist and AV is all a con, like dentistry.

That is definately the case. Something to worry the muppets that have insurance up the ass.

I've just de-installed all my anti-virus bollocks and can rest easy in the knowledge that if anything truly nasty happens I can roll back to a recent VM backup, or the problem will be caught on whatever server/network I connect to that still has all this anti-virus bollox installed.

So like a whore with every disease under the sun, I can't catch anything new and it's the problem of whoever tries to **** with me.

[Dark Black]

Another +1 for MSE.

Used to swear by AVG until v8 when it went bloaty and slowed the PC down to a crawl. After that started using Avast (still do on my netbook with TinyXP), was much faster than AVG but a bit annoying doing the update thing at start-up (on a slow connection).

Happy enough with MSE.