I use NIS and Malwarebytes

@Clintlgm

If you ever feel like making a positive change in your life, drop NIS altogether and switch to Bitdefender. I gave up on Norton, McAfee, even Kaspersky and switched to Bitdefender a couple years back, no going back. It's fast, effective, constantly ranked the highest in terms of detection and virtually has no impact.

I've run COMODO for years on multiple computers and never a problem its also free for home users.

Max Power wrote:
I've run COMODO for years on multiple computers and never a problem its also free for home users.

Realistically, if you're smart about what you do on your PC, viruses shouldn't be much of a concern. Then again, better safe than sorry. The free options while 'okay', the paid options tend to work better and considering you're considering 2 Samsung 840 500 GB SSDs in tandem for your G750, for you, money seems to be no object.

Right?

ibbi wrote:
ROFLMAO! NO Impact my ass!

I have a 3 year / 5 PC license for Bitdefender AV and I never use it. Reasons being:

1) it slows down my internet browsing big time due to its URL Checking

2) It modifies the master boot records and adds its own entry. This is good in a way as it prevents viruses from ever touching your boot files but it is very bad when you want to restore your system using a disk image you took earlier, the whole bootup will not work after you restore your image

3) it has more False Positives than I like

I use NOD32 it's the lightest and pretty decent on virus detections as well

Bitdefender is one of the best in terms of Virus protection but altogether, it is on of the buggiest products out there

1. What's your internet speed that the URL checking slows you down that much? Secondly, you can switch it off if you don't like it. I am on about 50 mbps and face no drop in Internet speed.
2. I do love a clean install. Nothing completes a Sunday for me like a clean install. It's like being revirginized 😄
3. Total Security 2013 and 2014 have close to no bugs. I say that even though I have yet to face a single bug myself in the past 2 years of using their software, others might.
4. False positives are better than missed positives right?

Nod32 is good too, and I'm sure would meet most people's needs. I just figure, if you're going to use anything, use the best. Everything will have it's flaws and for the past couple years, Bitdefender has ranked consistently as numero uno.

That's why I suggested it.

Oh yeah, and the performance drop? What performance drop? My system honestly runs as though I don't even have an antivirus installed. It's breezy!

Well I could probably work with out much Security, I aware and pay attention. However I have 3 WS and 1 NB the NB ends up on a lot of different networks some secure and some not. The WS are operated buy people that have no clue about security. I have trained them and they mostly won't click through a warning. I suffered through Norton from the beginning back in the 90's and finally the last couple of years NIS seems to run very low overhead and efficient. I don't have to retrain anyone including myself. I just started using Malware bytes since I found this forum. its seem to play well with NIS and I haven't noticed any overhead to speak of. I haven 't had a serious virus in the last 10 years. I guess it will be hard for me to change, with out a real track record that is that much better than NIS