The Best Security Suite for Windows 7

[johnl12]

PC Magazine gave Norton ISS 2010 Editor Choice.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349866,00.asp

Now they only reviewed 2010 products so Eset ISS 4 was not review since it's suite is a 2009 product.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351871,00.asp

Now remember we are talking suites so features are also being judge. Norton ISS 2010 has the best overall features, but Eset "nod32" maybe a better virus scan. For me I like Norton's Identity Safe feature for password protection. Eset ISS does not have this.

If we where talking anti-virus only, I would give Eset "nod32" the lead over Norton anti-virus.

[davmoo]

PC Magazine is sniffing glue. Norton is the disease, not the cure.

[tokenuser]

Originally Posted by davmoo

PC Magazine is sniffing glue. Norton is the disease, not the cure.

QFT.

I can't remember the last time I got a virus.

McAfee Enterprise && (Hardware Router/Firewall (Tomato) || Windows Firewall (when mobile)) && Spybot/Adaware = Pretty secure.

[toddsauve]

The trouble with almost every new retail security suite is that they need a FAST CPU to run them, not to mention taking up too much memory.

Personally, I use MS Security Essentials and the Windows 7 firewall, in addition to my cable modem router. I have an AMD Athlon XP dual core 4600 with 2 megs of RAM.

As an added defense I have MalwareBytes' free anti-malware AV program to run once every week or so to see if anything has gotten on my system. It is an excellent little freebie that detects a great many little viruses in the registry and elsewhere.