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I used to run MSE and had no problems, but when I "upgraded" to Win 10 it bogged the machine badly every afternoon. So I switched to Kaspersky which has been fine for me, with two exceptions.
1) The "safe browsing" window it opens for banks and so forth takes forever to load the first time each day - so it's disabled now
2) It hasn't found any virus, malware, or trojan problems - which could either mean it doesn't work, or I'm too careful about where I go and what I download... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's the irony with antivirus, those that has it doesn't need it...
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I ran Kaspersky on a small home net for several years b/c it was the only internal product Wingate offered. Individuals' machines ran AVG. I think Kaspersky reported exactly one virus over the period, while AVG regularly churned out warnings albeit sometimes of minor significance.
Then there's the issue of the nice Russians messing with their competition...
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- Kaspersky and Bitdefender are really the best. They REGULARLY are "Test winners" since years
- Stay away from Norton (Symantec) it sometimes hurds the system and is instable
- Avast and Avira are also good
The paid versions have features which are worth the money.
Tip 1: for good security are strong passwords essential
Tip 2: an external backup saves important data
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Another vote here for bitdefender. I've noticed no resource hogging. It has occasionally flagged up some malware-infected sites and asked me if I want to proceed, otherwise it sits on the system tray without annoying me and keeps itself up to date. Most importantly it gets top reviews for effectiveness. You have to register and maybe re-register each year.
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I'm using Bitdefender free, it really is light on resources, works 100% automatically and it works, but you can't set exceptions, if you don't need it it is a nice choice, if you need it forget about this automatic solution.
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Yeah, I recently tried Bitdefender and then uninstalled it because of the lack of control (exceptions!).
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Jacquers wrote: Looking for recommendations for an antivirus, for work, so paid or free. Something that won't bog down the system and get in the way of dev work as some of them do. Thx 
Next-Generation Endpoint Protection & Threat Intelligence | Webroot[^].
I have Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection install on 10 computers at a customer site and even the old (really old) XP boxes aren't slowed down.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I found out today that my bank offers this for free for their customers. It's a bit of a crippled version with detection only, but I think I'll give it a try.
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Where I work we use Sophos - in the 3.5 years I have been in the business we have not had any infected computers. We do also have a beefy firewall which catches everything before it hits anyone's computer.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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A company I know insist on using Sophos. I find it a resource hog and have always avoided using it myself. A couple of years ago the company using Sophos got hit by a virus that infected Sophos so that it quarantined some of its own executables and in so doing shot itself in both feet. One infected computer was completely hosed and effectively unrecoverable.
On another occasion the Sophos updater detected the latest update as a virus so it wouldn't install it. Sophos had to distribute a patch by email to be installed manually to recover Sophos' updatability.
My recommendation: STAY AWAY FROM SOPHOS.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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We were affected by the Sophos update being detected as a virus, which broke the whole update system - fortunately our ops guys were on-the-ball fixing it very quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Dettol?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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AVG doesn't seem to clean up after itself so over a period of time its virtual memory use gets pretty high. A corollary is that about that time it presents a big popup announcing that a reboot is necessary (presumably due to an update), and won't take 'no' for an answer (although it allows delays up to 24 hours). I hate rebooting b/c I invariably have several things on-going.
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I am using trend micro at work and MSE for personal laptop, both are good. bit-defender and kaspersky are good if you want to buy one.
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I used AVG Free Internet Security which also provide Antivirus protection approx 2 years, still I didn't find any VIRUS, Malware and trojan horse problem in my system...
Don't watch the clock;
Do what it does.
Keep going.....
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I use MSE and don't browse dodgy websites and had no problems
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Personally, I really like ESET.
It is fast and Flexible.
When I renew, the new expiration date applies to all connected computers.
It has one Issue. If you want to use it over a VPN, it wants to scan each file you touch over the VPN, no way to indicate to not do this, but to keep scanning network drives. Network drives are fast, VPN is typically really slow.
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Second that. Used it for years, never had a problem. Doesn't take over, but does the job.
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Every now and then (like, every 2 years or so), I try to install one, only to find out that it slows compilation time by a LOT.
I've learned to live without it - namely, just learn things to avoid.
Best,
John
-- Log Wizard - a Log Viewer that is easy and fun to use!
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John, you are a trusting soul.
The better solution, tell it not to scan your source code files!
Most viruses are binary, there is no real reason to be scanning TXT,C,H, etc files.
PDF Files. YEAH.
I would spend the 10-15 minutes you need to tune your compile time performance.
I am INCREDIBLY safe with my surfing. Switched to web based mail to avoid downloading
stuff to my machine, etc.
I don't let my scanner scan my oracle ORA files or the Oracle Data Folder DBF Files.
By eliminating those files that are accessed all the time, but not binary, I think you
can get an optimal solution that is a FAST Computing Experience that has decent safety.
HTH
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Hehe, when it comes to my computer, I would say I am the exact opposite.
Anyway, long story short - 10-15 minutes of customizing the antivirus will never really do it. As said, I would try doing just that, with really crappy results.
Anyway, the 2 year mark will come soon, so I'll try again 
Best,
John
-- Log Wizard - a Log Viewer that is easy and fun to use!
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