Which Anti Virus/Firewall is best?

So far I have the trial AVG 

Other.

And Norton is terrible.

Because of some things Norton2006 didn't catch my computer crashed and I switched to Panda Antivrus and love it.

AVG & Avast are both fine and if anything better than plenty of ones that charge (I use AVG). I think the free version of each comes without firewall, but there are free firewalls too. I use Sygate for a firewall though, because I couldn't find any free ones which were configurable enough for some stuff I wanted to do (it shouldn't be a problem for most people though).

AVG is awesome and free. I'll never use Norton again!

Zango is a pain in the bottom, carefull when playing online games in which my brother loves to do.

TheProgtologist wrote: Other. And Norton is terrible. Because of some things Norton2006 didn't catch my computer crashed and I switched to Panda Antivrus and love it.

You should spend some time reasearching that company (Panda Software), maybe even check your region's business bureau for compaints (if you have such a thing in your area).  I finally got rid of them after using them for about a year and haven't had any problems with viruses, worms, or the like in at least three years.  Before, I had two of my machines crash due to worms, one of them three times in less than a year (and not all from the same viruses either).

Also Panda spams the holy crap out of you once you get rid of their software, and I noticed a huge increase in spam traffic within days of cancelling my Panda subscription, so I'm quite sure they are selling my name and information to other companies.  I'm still getting several emails a day from them over three years later.  I have even blacklisted them on my mail provider's POP server, in my own email client software, and in my virus software, plus blocked their domain in my router's firewall, but the emails keep getting through using variations and alias address names.  Back when I had Panda I also used to get Windows OS popup ads, which I had never seen before on any machine, and have never seen since getting rid of Panda.

Glad you're happy with these guys, but beware if you ever decide to show them the door...

Edited by ClemofNazareth

I'm with Viajero - NOD32 for me. I have been selling it to clients for years and I have never (that's never..) had a problem with it, unlike Norton...

A BIG one

Zavgorodny wrote: hmmm. Norton, Avast & NOD32 has some pros and cons. well secured, but pretty heavy.

30MB all up - hardly heavy (NOD32 that is). That's the size of the installation folder. The service itself takes a meager 6MB of memory. Compare that to Norton's bloat. Read up on how it works before dismissing it. Or did you mean pricey?

Edited by cobb

Without paying money, I still think there's nothing better than AVG on Windows and now I've switched to KPF for firewall. If you're going to pay for AV, I don't see any point in getting anything but NOD32 (I haven't ever seen Kaspersky; apparently it's comparable)

OS X seems to have a lot less choice in terms of AV stuff but ClamAV does the job.