I used to be like you until I got a nasty little bugger that just sat in the background until I installed a new program.  But if all in one is your choice (all the programs I mentioned are free) then try Panda.  Even if you paid me for the year, I wouldn't go back to Norton.

Like Petire said, there is NO all-in-one program out there that'll protect you.  Even You'd be better off to get seperate programs for every kind of threat.  I mean, think about it.  If your company has all of them to worry about, you can't possibly find cures for them all, but if you only worry about spyware, then you're gonna focus on ONLY spyware and get that as your priority.  That's why AVG is such a good ANTIVIRUS.  That's all they do.  I did a test run with panda, and I had it for about 2 days.  I uninstalled it and reinstalled avg and avg found 4 viruses that panda never found.  BUT, panda did very well deleting some spyware I had.  It has good antispyware, but bad antivirus compared to avg.  You need both programs, but it won't let you.  The cure???  Create a portable version of AVG that you can update! Then, you don't have to install it on the computer and the programs won't conflict! Unfortunately, the only portable one's out there are illegal because they're all like "avg pro" and it doesn't make you register, so I'll have to create my own version if I want to stay on the right side of the law. -_- I'm gonna check out some handy portable application makers and see if I can't make avg portable. And Spybot too.




Oh, and BTW, just because spybot couldn't cure falcon a few years ago doesn't mean they don't have a cure now.  I'll bet it can fix it now.

Haven't checked out the price recently, but to renew my subscription to norton, it'd cost me $68.  I got norton with the only new computer computer I ever bought and immediately uninstalled it and replaced it with AVG, but then I got this stupid invitation in the mail once I had the computer for a year and the subscription was up saying "oooooh, norton is so great and wonderful.  Won't you let us suck your wallet dry for crappy service for another year?" :

One place to never trust:  stopsign.com.  They tell you you've got fake viruses and charge around $40 per virus to remove!

Sounds like a good combination for a start Manny.

I've tried avast but I couldn't stand the gui (how you use the program) and it was pretty slow overall.  Didn't find anything on my machine.

This is my Virus Protection: Mac OS X Leopard.
Viruses are not really formatted for this OS, so I am safe.

I find macs to be distasteful.  I've been recently trying out linux and I've been having tons of problems, but I'd still rather have linux than a mac OS.  Macs just make everything harder than it needs to be except for the serious stuff that you hardly ever deal with.  Macs are great when ya have to fix them or when you have a problem with them that needs to be resolved, but they're much harder to use in everyday life than PC's.  If you disagree with this statement, you've either never tried a PC and can't say anything about one or you don't know how to actually use a PC properly (which very few people do). : It's surprising how so many people don't know how to use their computers that they sit on day after day.  Depressing really. -_-

A little update to this thread.

I'm no longer using AVG as my antivirus and I now have switched to Kaspersky.  We installed it on a friend's machine because he gone to a gaming site and the stuff that loaded from there completely disassembled AVG.  Kaspersky was the only thing that was able to remove the really bad stuff, and we were quite impressed.  Amazon has a deal right now, with a mail in rebate, a year of Kaspersky antivirus protection for three computers is free (actually you'll get money back), so it was hard to pass up once we did scans on our computers and saw what AVG was missing.    One had nine viruses and over sixty trojans.  (My laptop had two viruses and three trojans).

Moving to the Computer discussion forum. B)