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Trend Micro never pops up on me during games or anything annoying like that. It's pretty good, wasn't free though.

Been using Trend for a while after having hassles with kapersky. Norton I liked execpt it ate up the resources.

Here's a interesting find that trend found with razer drivers

Peripheral manufacturer Razer was left with egg on its face this week by the revelation that it had been unwittingly distributing malware with its driver updates.

The Trojan - troj.dropper.jiz, which downloads and installs a copy of worm.aspxor.ab - was spotted on Razer's product support website by anti-virus vendor Trend Micro - and reported by DownloadSquad - earlier this week.

Trend Micro's analysis of the website has shown that at least eight separate driver packages offered by Razer's support site came with the unwanted bonus, and the company claims that only "7 out of 41 [anti-virus] vendors offered generic detection" of this particular worm - meaning it's potentially difficult for an end-user to know that they've been infected.

The worm, which spreads by opening a random TCP port on the infected system and connecting to external SMTP servers in order to send spam with itself as an attachment, isn't a particularly nice thing to have installed on your system: accordingly, Razer are advising users to make use of free anti-virus scanners available online from Trend Micro and Avast.

Razer has temporarily taken its support site offline while it investigates the issue and checks to make sure it has caught all instances of the Trojan before making driver downloads available once more.

This isn't the first time a trusted brand has been subverted to spread malware, of course: sites as big as The New York Times have been used to peddle Trojans in the past, and even computers which aren't connected to the Internet aren't necesarilly safe with peripherals and even the computers themselves coming pre-loaded with viruses. The lesson is: if you use Windows, install an anti-virus package.
 
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I still like Avast Home after all these years. I did try AntiVir Free and it wasn't bad but the popup in the middle of the screen everytime it updated became pretty annoying.

Seriously Try avast. I absolutly LOVE IT. I have yet to EVER get a virus with it on my system. On any of my systems to be exact. NEVER. Not 1.
 

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I have kerpasky too, and it works great for me, use it on all the MS based system in my house... as for the Linux systems... never bothered putting one on them....
 

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*Hugs avast*
 
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Ive just switched to a 364 day 'trial' of Norton Internet Security 2010 (unfortunately Im not allowed to discuss how i managed a 364 day trial on this forum but its not rocket science) due to the fact that Kaspersky is still in the gutter reguarding their IS2010 suite & even though their literally testing new betas out every 2 weeks or so. their most current stable build (.463) sucks balls. so I made the switch.
 
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