Trend Micro have been around for a long time - I have never used their products though.
I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials Beta since installing Windows 7 64 bit RTM. It seems to work really well and isn't a drain on resources.
I installed Avast (home) on both installations of Win7 that I have 32 and 64bit and I have had not issues since installing.
cool.
Speaking of that, does anyone know the cut off date for windows 7 free upgrade? My Wife got her laptop with vista on it back in APR 2009 and I dont know if they would allow an upgrade
If the laptop didn't come with an upgrade certificate you're out of luck. I don't think that they started offering free upgrades until at least July this year.
I can see Trend Micro from my balcony...
never used it
I like clamav for BSD OSes
I put ClamAV onto our server box which runs MS Server 2003 as it is about the only free AV that I could find that would run on it.
Now that its been released and I can run it on my Win7 installation I'm using the MS Security Essentials pack. Essentially a full-blown virus scanner baked right into Windows. Seems to do the job well enough, but I haven't run the system long enough to know how good it is at catching things.
Before that I, like others among you, was a dedicated Avast user. Still have it on my Windows XP VMs... :)
After hearing good things about the MS Security Essentials package from the Windows Weekly Podcast, I decided to give it a crack, having upgraded to W7 just a few days earlier. And it's excellent stuff. It's integrated with Windows, so I've never even noticed it running, compared to Avast or McAfee that slow down my system noticeably. And it's very unobtrusive. If it finds a threat, it lets me know and offers to get rid of it or let me ignore it, otherwise it just lets me do what I want. If you're running W7, I would most definitely recommend it.
I too have had MS Security Essentials on my WIN 7 box for a couple of weeks now and find it to be excellent.
On my Vista laptop I had AVG 9.0 Free until a recent update crashed my OS so bad that I could not boot in except for safe mode. Removing AVG fixed it. MS Security Essentials is now running on my Vista laptop just fine.
My XP machine is still running AVAST and will continue to do so until I have a problem with it.
