This thread hasn't received much attention lately and was wondering if anyone's opinions have changed on the subject. I think it has been pretty much the same over the year span. I myself just purchased Nod32 Antivirus (v3.0 but upgrade to 4.0) from NewEgg. I used an illegal copy on my old computer several years ago and fell in love with it (although it required constant new username/passwords to be entered to stay up-to-date or custom virus databases).
I've tried out Microsoft Security Essentials for several months now and it has done a very nice job, although at times there has been some slowdown with my system when it was doing something in the background (more or less at random times), although that problem seems to have subsided.
The one think I love about MSE is it rarely ever bothers you and the license doesn't have to be renewed like Avast! and has a nicer interface (Avast seriously needs to roll out their new look soon).
I'm interested to see how small the footprint is for Nod32 compared to other AV's I've used since I haven't used it in several years. Right now MSE is using about 80mb of memory while Avast! seems to be running at under 20mb on my laptop (didn't know it was that small...wow, well I'm officially impressed). If it wasn't for the nagging of the "Your Virus Database has been Updated" message (I probably can disable the whole popup entirely) and new version requests then I probably would've stuck with it. I'll report back on Nod32 when I get my SSD in a few days.
I've tried out Microsoft Security Essentials for several months now and it has done a very nice job, although at times there has been some slowdown with my system when it was doing something in the background (more or less at random times), although that problem seems to have subsided.
The one think I love about MSE is it rarely ever bothers you and the license doesn't have to be renewed like Avast! and has a nicer interface (Avast seriously needs to roll out their new look soon).
I'm interested to see how small the footprint is for Nod32 compared to other AV's I've used since I haven't used it in several years. Right now MSE is using about 80mb of memory while Avast! seems to be running at under 20mb on my laptop (didn't know it was that small...wow, well I'm officially impressed). If it wasn't for the nagging of the "Your Virus Database has been Updated" message (I probably can disable the whole popup entirely) and new version requests then I probably would've stuck with it. I'll report back on Nod32 when I get my SSD in a few days.