Anti-virus

[paceman]

An informal poll to see who uses what AV. If you use an AV, but won't use it in the future for some reason, and little warning would be appreciated.

[EDIT] - Added an option for "None" for you. MCA

[paceman]

Currently using PCcillin, but I think I'm going to dump it when it expires next month. It is just becoming bloatware. It works okay, but it's getting to big, to many features, which I turn most all of them off, but it's memory footprint is still getting to big.

[Master_Chief_Alpha]

I don't use any.

It's hard out here without a raincoat, but I soldier on.

I can't sacrifice any CPU time to an AV app.

[Apache Warrior]

Kaspersky.
Apache

[paceman]

"You are brave man, Gunga Din".

[Master_Chief_Alpha]

"You are brave man, Gunga Din".

It's like jumping into a swimming pool full of sharks with just a pocket knife.

But I can't stand my Photoshop running like it's dying.

[alpha]

norton because i get it for free through my school, and for a while they made us use it to get onto the school's network (enough complaining from people stopped it from being required),

[paceman]

We use Norton AV at work. I'm not real crazy about it either.

[imlittlev]

f-prot

[CarbonFire]

We use Norton AV at work. I'm not real crazy about it either.

We feel for you paceman....no one deserves that sort of punishment

I'm a vote for no AV. Just like MCA, I loathe having a big, bloated background app that generally slows things down and eats precious CPU cycles. I'm just extra careful, use Firefox and block as much as is necessary to keep myself virus-free. Been going on 6 years now without an issue *knock on wood*

Running sans AV is not for everyone, but for those who dare, good choice to you and good luck

[CrplCupcakes]

I don't use any.

It's hard out here without a raincoat, but I soldier on.

I can't sacrifice any CPU time to an AV app.

+1
Technically I use Norton, but if you use any kind of auto protection it kills gaming.
I assume this is in respnnse to my virus, if that is really what it was it's hard to distinguish the line between virus and malware sometimes. That's why I just reformatted. I spend far less time just backing up occasionally and reformatting than I would in prevention. I keep my stuff organized anyways.
It's been a few years since I have had a problem.
I will warn you, if you don't use protection make sure that you back up regularly there are viruses that eat picture, movie, and music files for breakfast. I had one of those a few years back. This is only my second infection.

[Hawkeye426]

Anti virus is not needed if your computer savvy, and you know what to look for, and what not to DL. However if you have the computing capacity I would recommend for the average user to have some form of protection, the key bit is removal software/quarantine software.

[Master_Chief_Alpha]

Anti virus is not needed if your computer savvy

+100000

[Smoking]

Kaspersky, its off most of the time just mainly because we got a copy at work for free other then that i don't go with anti virus. I would find it interesting anyway if someone managed to get a virus on my pc without anti virus anyways

[Razi]

I use Symantec Anti-Virus, which I think is actually Norton Anti-Virus, released under the Symantec name.