BleepingComputer.com: Best All-in-one Security Solution

I am just wondering what everyone thinks is the best suite. I was thinking about trend-micro, bit-defender, CA, or Norton...
Any other suggestions??? Thanks

I use bitdefender. http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

Hi firefighter17103, to BleepingComputer

Norton 360 is a great new progam from Symantec that includes all-in-one protection against Viruses, Spyware, and Hackers. It automatically removes spyware and threats as well as automatically updates. It does everything automatically, you basically "set it and forget it". It also cleans out temporary files and cache that can clog your system (kinda like Disk Defrag does).

the prob i have w/ norton is it uses alot of system resources

I ran the 30 day trial of norton 360 in my vm, and was not impressed. It had the same problems that norton has had since about 2003, as in high resource usage, and the inability to remove everything that it detects. Some of the new features in 360 did work great, but as a package, it did not work fully, even the delete on reboot did not work correctly for me, so once again, norton is on my personal list of programs not to use. I will try again next year, and see if they improve for me.

All-in-one tools and suites generally use more system resources than separate programs that do the same task. Further, they tend to have varying degrees of strengths and weaknesses for each feature. In contrast, separate tools are designed, built and maintained with a greater focus in a specific area so they are generally of better quality. This means the program's performance for that particular feature is usually superior than their all-in-one counterpart. Finally, all-in-one tools generally do not allow the user as much flexibility in tailoring default settings and usage.

I've been using Kisv7 on my computer and my son's since March.It seems to run light and we're not having any problems with it.I'm assuming that all the suites have trial versions so give one of them a run and see what you thinks.

quietman,

what programs would you recomend i don't mind paying

NOD32 Anti-Virus Personal or Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

If you must use a suite, then my choice would be Kaspersky Internet Security Suite.

Sunbelt's Counterspy for realtime protection against spyware.

Stand-alone scanning tools:
AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 for protection against Trojans
SUPERAntiSpyware Free to use as a general purpose scanning tool.

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