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View Poll Results: Whats the No 1 Antivirus program for Windows (Home machine)
Norton Antivirus with or without firewall 1 4.00%
AVG 7 28.00%
ZoneAlarm 0 0%
Mcafee 0 0%
kaspersky 6 24.00%
Sophos 0 0%
Avast 8 32.00%
nod32 1 4.00%
Avira 2 8.00%
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Old July 30th, 2007, 07:32 PM
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Whats everyones the best anti-virus program?
Personally i use avg at work and Norton for home but I'm wondering if there are any better ones around. I willing to change as I'm starting to find Norton can consume lots of resources.

If its not on the list then please post
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I use Avira Personal Edition and not having any problem..really good and blocks viruses ..however it isn't in the poll so i can't vote
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I haven't heard of some of those, Hench why the the poll is small. What makes them the best? I mean why would you choose one over the other?
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Ability to find and adapt to new viruses, small overhead... IBM AV used to be a huge resource hog. Norton's is still a resource hog, but McAfee's getting up there, too.