antivirus, whats a good one?

[R James Trapp]

I'm looking for a good antivirus program for a laptop? I need one that doesn't ask me for permission to run a program. I need one that automatically knows which programs are bad and good. I need one for a morron. I just had to have a new hard drive put in my laptop and switched from vista to windows 7 home premium. I don't want to do it again.

PLEASE HELP!

[Crandis16]

macbook

Edit: on a more serious not.... http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.security-faqs.com/the-best-10-antivirus-programs-2012-my-reviews

we use McAfee at work and it does a good job

the problem with popular antivirus programs is that more people use it (popular ones)... therefore more people make viruses that can crack the software to get out to more people

Edited July 23, 2012 by Crandis16

[IdleSilence2580]

Get Kaspersky. Very good program and if I didn't already have Norton Internet Security 2012 I would buy it. I've never had any problems with Norton but I just want to try something new. I don't recommend free anti-virus programs though, seen too many of my friends that took that route and ended up paying for it eventually.

[RooTxBeeR]

If you want a antivirus that doesn't have setable permissions, than thats really dumb, because your going to end up here again. Most Antivirus' actually only ask once per each program than never again.

Dude above me, Norton sucks, your more likely to get something undetected with them than you would with free AVG.

Edited July 24, 2012 by RooTxBeeR

[tbake223]

dont buy anything. get microsoft security essentials its free. and as a once a week scan use malwarebytes its free. thats what i use and im 3 years virus free, for free. I was a tech at officedepot and thats what we would install when people would have virus's no matter what they had, then we would remove it when we gave the computer back.

if u were going to buy something i would second kaspersky, i had a free 6 months and it was good. Stay away from norton. Mcaffe is meh... and office depot was told to offer it first. just my 2 cents

Edited July 24, 2012 by tbake223

[RooTxBeeR]

dont buy anything. get microsoft security essentials its free. and as a once a week scan use malwarebytes its free. thats what i use and im 3 years virus free, for free. I was a tech at officedepot and thats what we would install when people would have virus's no matter what they had, then we would remove it when we gave the computer back.

if u were going to buy something i would second kaspersky, i had a free 6 months and it was good. Stay away from norton. Mcaffe is meh... and office depot was told to offer it first. just my 2 cents

This 100%

[tbake223]

Also, microsoft security essentials runs so light u dont even notice it. alot of people would bring in comps with avg antivirus software and would have a virus ( i used to use also) and we would slap them with 160 dollar bill to remove the virus, we would install malwarebytes and if it found malware they would stop the service and not continue unless u paid. and literally u hit the button quarantine, do a few other things and thats it. For some virus's tho it would be much more complicated and stuff but your basic ones thats it. Rootkits are a whole different story, the techs would work for that 160. If worst comes to worst you can just reinstall windows 90% of the time so do urself a favor and make recovery disks, its 4 dvds and takes 30 minutes. we charged 40 for that also. words of wisdom

Edited July 24, 2012 by tbake223

[fosgatefan821]

I hate Norton personally. always seemed to slow pc down. never liked mcafee either..its on my jobs pcs and now there is a worm infected on all pcs. and stupid mcafee wont remove it. I use AVG as of now and its been good for yrs but kaspersky is what I would if i would buy a program

Edited July 24, 2012 by fosgatefan821

[n8ball2013]

Eset nod32 some of these stories make me laugh

[Raptorman]

I love Avast! Antivirus.