What do you think the best anti-virus is?

[r0yaL]

I personally use Avira, and after using many others (avast, norton, avg, panda, kaspersky, mcafee, etc.) I can say that Avira is my favorite. I also love COMODO firewall.

[Peter L]

Spyware Doctor, Avast, or Microsoft Essentials.

[Resistance]

Norton is terrible, Mcafee is worse, Kaspersky and NOD32 are the best. AVG and Avast are right in the low ranking line after mcafee and norton. Easy as that.

[Š Λ☨∀И]

the best antivirus for me is....
AVG and Nod32.....

[prince of persia]

Avira
VIPRE
Malaware Bytes

Those would be more top 3.

[rootkit]

I think the best antivirus at the moment is Avira.

[Griffin]

My top three would consist of Avira, Norton and Avast, although it depends on the activities your doing.

[bytem3]

I have been using NOD32 for years after trying out several different AVs. It is a nice balance of control and end-user interaction, with great detection (especially if you enable the webscanning function that scans all code, links, and files going through the ports normally used for surfing). While I usually don't endorse Microsoft products and it does have issues, I think that MSE is a pretty good free AV scanner, although it can be improved by tweaking it - one example is editing the registry to increase the frequency of update checking. Remember, AV software doesn't catch all types of malware as well, so I use it in conjunction with MBAM and COMODO firewall (only the firewall function).

[Tobe]

I go for microsoft security essentials, I use it and I'm very happy with it. But I generally don't download files from places I don't trust.

[Resistance]

Overall: I think that, McAfee - Norton - Microsoft Security Essential - Windows Defender (no choice there) - Other 3rd Part Anti-Viruses are terrible, no good computer memory leeching suckers.

Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 would be better if my laptop had not crashed all the time when it updates, I will try NOD32 next, then avira. These last three are the total best.