Do you use antivirus and which do you use?

[Ack]

I also use AVGN's free edition. For backup, I keep a copy of Hijack This! and Spybot Search and Destroy handy, just in case.

[Ziggy]

Yeah, I forgot to say, I also use SpyBot. I figure that immunization has to do something!

[timewarpgamer]

On my PC: Nod32, but the annual subscription charge is painful. I just hit the one-year mark and am really tempted to switch to something that doesn't require a subscription.

On my mac: I run OS X and exercise caution with downloads and attachments.

[corn619]

I use avast. Its free, simple, works great and doesn't slow your system down like Norton and Mcafee. By the way, Mcafee sucks royal ass. I was on the phone with them or over 3 hrs trying to figure out why their Total Protection product locked me out of the admin abilities on my PC for no reason. I think after a while they were hoping I would give up and hang up. While it sucked being locked out of my PC for no reason, it was kind of funny how little they knew about the product they were selling. In the end I got no answer, no rebate and vowed to myself never to buy a Mcafee product again.

[Dakinggamer87]

I use AVG as my anti-virus software and have had no problems since and use Norton at work..

[miked]

I haven't ran any antivirus in 3+ years, and Ive never had any problems. (Knocks on wooden computer desk...........wait its fake ass particle board!!! NOOOO!!!!)

[glynnahab]

Well, it's good to see that lots of you out there use AVG free, since I use it as well. It makes searching for amputee porn so much safer.

Oh... I didn't really say that...

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Well, it's good to see that lots of you out there use AVG free, since I use it as well. It makes searching for amputee porn so much safer.

Oh... I didn't really say that...

... that has got to be one of the oddest things ive heard on this forum...

[Anapan]

I use AVG free as well. Low overhead and pretty good resident protection. I personally think that Norton/Symantec products are horrible. They can bog down most computers and don't do much better than any of the other alternatives as far as virus protection goes. Expensive too. If you're wondering just how good the different resident virus programs are, http://www.av-comparatives.org/ has some stats I trust to be non-biased.
I've recently been doing a lot of computer repairs and have been finding some rootkit viruses most well-known scanners don't detect.
fortunately some specialized scanners I found can take care of them very quickly and easily.

These are quick-fix programs that work best in safe mode (with networking).

The best one by far is Combofix
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofi ... e-combofix
Another good one is Smitfraudfix
http://siri.geekstogo.com/SmitfraudFix.php
A quick small one called Rooter
http://eric.71.mespages.googlepages.com/Rooter.exe
Gmer rootkit detector
http://www.gmer.net/index.php
Finally a scan with Malwarebytes
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Once they're done, all that's left to do is reboot to regular windows and fire up HijackThis to make sure everything's clean. Maybe Spybot Search and Destroy too, tho the last few times I ran it after all those it didn't find much.

If you ever download a file you want to test before you run (keygen or the like), upload it to Jotti Malware scanner. It passes the file through 20 AV programs and each gives you a thumbs-up/down. Nearly every file is rejected by a couple of them reguardless of if it's bad or not but more than 4 negatives is probably a virus.
http://virusscan.jotti.org/

A few months back I accidentally installed a new (avg undetected) really nasty browser hijacker+trojan virus and needed to figure out just what it had done to my system so I found this site:
http://www.cwsandbox.org/
upload a file and it executes it for 2 minutes on a clean windows install logging every little thing it does and then emails you an exhaustive report. I was able to work backwards through the report log and completely reverse the 48 or so horrible changes it had made to my system and registry.

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ is pretty good too. Free scan using your browser as it's shell. Decent detection rate and leaves only a small browser widget behind. Slow.

Ohyeah, Spybot's tea timer can get annoying, but it's a good way to make sure no virus can ever install itself even if you accedentally run it. all registry and startup changes are blocked until you click OK. Not nearly as bad as Vista's security popups,...

Hmm I have a few more fixers that I don't use very often but I'll list anyway:
daft
drweb-cureit
gooredfix
Ad-Aware
CWShredder
Winsockfix
LSPfix

To Ziggy587 - if you're using Internet Explorer, it's true that just browsing can get you a virus (if you click yes on the wrong popup or haven't updated in awhile). If you haven't already done so switch to Firefox, and install the AdBlock Plus Add on. No more advertisements, banners or popups, and your chances of getting a virus from websites will drop substantially.

[Ack]

God, Tea Timer is awesome. I absolutely love it. I've also had to use Smitfraudfix once, and I felt it was pretty easy to use. Good stuff there.