There are good and bad points about every AV.
The best AV's right now, from what I have read and learnt, are Kaspersky, NOD32 and Avira Antivir.
My favourite right now is probably Kaspersky (I have used all 3 btw). NOD32 is far more expensive than Avira and Kaspersky at the moment, and I can't see it offering a great deal more...
Avira is lacking a web scanner and mail scanner in the free version and they do not offer good English support (they are based in Germany and many of them cannot speak English). It also seems to be getting fairly high false positive results, that is why it has got "Standard" in recent retrospective tests at AV-Comparatives.org.
By the way, you can see the November 2007 results summary on the AV-Comparatives.org website here: http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/overview.html
NOD32 and Kaspersky were the only ones to get Advanced+. The offical results should be out in the next few days.
The best AV's right now, from what I have read and learnt, are Kaspersky, NOD32 and Avira Antivir.
My favourite right now is probably Kaspersky (I have used all 3 btw). NOD32 is far more expensive than Avira and Kaspersky at the moment, and I can't see it offering a great deal more...
Avira is lacking a web scanner and mail scanner in the free version and they do not offer good English support (they are based in Germany and many of them cannot speak English). It also seems to be getting fairly high false positive results, that is why it has got "Standard" in recent retrospective tests at AV-Comparatives.org.
By the way, you can see the November 2007 results summary on the AV-Comparatives.org website here: http://www.av-comparatives.org/index.html?http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/overview.html
NOD32 and Kaspersky were the only ones to get Advanced+. The offical results should be out in the next few days.