Best Antivirus For Gaming?

[NeoReloaded]

Hey guys i need a good anti virus that will run without using much resources and won't inturupt(sp) my gaming session! I was using Windows Live Care which was absolutely brilliant, but now that has been "disscontinued". I dont mind paying either as long as it does the job and picks up even the tiniest piece of spy ware (if i have any... which i don't... atm) when i do a full system scan!

Cheers

 

[Matteysan]

Hey guys i need a good anti virus that will run without using much resources and won't inturupt(sp) my gaming session! I was using Windows Live Care which was absolutely brilliant, but now that has been "disscontinued". I dont mind paying either as long as it does the job and picks up even the tiniest piece of spy ware (if i have any... which i don't... atm) when i do a full system scan!

Cheers

Microsoft Security Essentials completely free

 

[chronic86]

nod32

 

[Geek.]

norton anti-virus gamer edition!

 

[Venares]

norton anti-virus gamer edition!

ROFL

My votes Kaspersky.
Seriously, stay away from Norton whatever you do.

 

[Raumarik]

Microsoft Security Essentials completely free

This.

 

[postmanfw]

Kaspersky

 

[Macro]

Microsoft Security Essentials completely free

This

 

[randal]

Avast, honed to what you need to for. i.e cut out all the fat daemons.

 

[thevet]

bitdefender has the best detection out of ANY anti virus software
http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

 

[Dano]

bitdefender has the best detection out of ANY anti virus software
http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

That's all very well until it drags your drive access speed down to < 1MB/sec due to over zealous scanning of data.

 

[Sin_Chase]

Best?

None + good practice + Monthly scanning (or whatever time-scale you want) with a product of choice should you need peace of mind.

I'm on many years of the above, nothing but Cookies so far!

 

[SiriusB]

bitdefender has the best detection out of ANY anti virus software
http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Plus the review for NOD32 is wrong.

Unlike Kaspersky and BitDefender, ESET's NOD32 only updates its virus signatures once a day. That's probably a short enough interval considering that ESET has the power to “push” updates to your computer in the instance of attack. Also, with ESET's highly effective heuristic, proactive engine, it is very likely that NOD32 will recognize malicious code before the signature is available. These two features make us more comfortable with the slightly longer update intervals than some of its competitors have.

NOD32 can and does update more than once a day. If you are happy to pay then I would go NOD32, you will barely notice it is there.

 

[Lee]

Avast or MS Security Essentials

 

[Kezmo]

norton anti-virus gamer edition!

lmao!

 

[tntcoder]

Best?

None + good practice + Monthly scanning (or whatever time-scale you want) with a product of choice should you need peace of mind.

I'm on many years of the above, nothing but Cookies so far!

This.

The entire antivirus model is broken these days. Just use common sense with a good backup routine, the chances of you getting a virus while gaming are minuscule. [IMO]

 

[SkodaMart]

Another vote for NOD32 here!

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

+1 for NOD32

 

[Peace]

Kaspersky - completely free with barclays online banking

 

[Destination]

Kaspersky

Utter madness!

kasperksy blocks certain games from updating unless you switch it off currently, they introduced the bug in an 8.0.0 lifespan, somewhere aound 454 hotfix, and then it has continued into 9.0.0.736.

I am sure they will eventually sort it, but currently they refuse to recognise that the issue is there.

MSE has a lower footprint.
MSE is cheaper
MSE on last detections tests seems to be rated as highly as kaspersky, which still has major slowdown issues for lots (not all) of Windows7 users.