Malware

I've been using avast! antivirus after my Symantec subscription ran out. Try it for 60 days and if you want it's free for a year for home users who register. After one year you can re-register. avast! is very user friendly, offers "On-Access Scanner", and automatic updates. Also offers P2P, IM, Internet Mail, Outlook (SMTP, POP3), Network, Standard, and Web Shields.

I tried Grisoft's AVG about a year ago, didn't really like the interface etc.

EDIT: With avast! you can actually schedule a virus scan during the boot process, and I haven't seen or figured out if Norton or others can be configured to schedule a boot scan.

I went down the NIS road, almost to ruin. I bought the 5 user CD for 4 PCs. reinstalls failed time and again.
So I jumped ship to protect my LAN and bought NOD32 from ESSET. I have not looked back since.

Cheers

I have been using CA's etrust antivirus for a number of years and am quite pleased. I started when the personal version was available for free over the internet, and continued after I had to pay for it. Currently, there are two versions available for desktops of which I am aware. There is etrust 2005, which is marketed through stores in the States (I am located in Israel, where we don't have it in the stores yet, but remember seeing it almost everywhere I looked on my last trip a year ago), which is easy to install, and takes virtually no configuration.

There is also etrust 7, which is the version for use on networks. This takes a little configuration after installation. It updates as often as you set it for, and has 2 virus engines. I have this installed on my machine, and frequently use it to clean viruses from hard disks taken from machines that had Norton, McAfee, and AVG installed.

Another good antivirus is ESET's NOD32. It will disconnect from a website that tries to download a program to the computer, but can't clean viruses in memory.

The Etrust is good at cleaning viruses in memory, and at giving me full information about the occasional infected files it can't clean, so I can get at them in safe mode. Definitely my first choice.

I had the same experience. Used to use Norton, but had so MANY problems with it, particularilay when trying to uninstall, that I removed it from all of my machines. I have used AVG for some time now (the Free VErsion) and think it is a really good program.
I just recently loaded Avast on my grand-daughter laptop and that too seems to be a pretty neat program. I would recommend either of those as my first choices.

We use CA eTrust in our desktops and servers, but it does not get much of a workout, because we also have SurfControl e-mail and web filters in place that do an amazing job at blocking all kinds of unpleasantness.

For those computers that are off our network (laptops, home users, and whatnot), we had been using Norton Internet Security 2003, 2004, or 2005, and also Symantec Client Security 2.0. We are moving to ZoneLabs Internet Security Suite, which includes an antivirus piece. We are making the switch away from Norton/Symantec because Norton requires that users be local administrators of their computers in order for updates to download (big security hole, since this allows spyware to install). We chose ZoneLabs based on the security baseline in Brian Livingston's Windows Secrets Newsletter, which in turn is based on a PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award.