No worries. Sometimes the term just jumps all over me and other times I just write it off. AV I avoid now, AVG (was nice up till v8), McAfee and Norton And how about that Antivirus XP 2010?
Microsoft security essentials.. but i've tryed and used a few. like NOD32, Bitdefender, Trend micro, Avast, Kaspersky, norton(crap), AVG, Vipre Antivirus(great actually)
How do you know ? If you don't run any AV software then you're not going to get any warnings. Bit silly not to these days, loads of good ones are free and use very little system resources. Nothing to loose.
In the last c?t (Germany) MSE Microsoft Security Essentials was the best so i did add MSE to my System were Avirari Antivir is also running.. just try MSE its shuts up and has a damm good detection rate... Edit BTW We have 1000 Licences of Panda Enterpriese ... that damm Programm did not catch all Bugs send to us via E-Mail in 2010 so far.. I cant recomend Panda ATM
I used to use EST nod32 until i found out that they still send virus info to their servers even though you tell it not to and i dont want virus info sent to them (for reasons i will not discuss) so now i use kaspersky internet suit 2010. and remember never run 2 Antiviruses on a machine EVER. By far from experience Norton and macfee even though both are popular they are probably the worst anti viruses out there atm.
I would personaly go with avast too as it came 2nd to nortan when tested and you have to pay for nortan avast is free ^^
why are you telling us, if you dont want it discussed? OT: ESET nod32 were way better in the old days.. it doesnt catch or/and detect viruses/othercrap as good as before. i myself recommend microsoft's - Microsoft Security Essentials(MSE) bitdefender is working well too, but is slowing your system on older pc's. NORTON is just = crap, for most.
I can get McAfee and Webroot Spyware and Antivirus for free, but it takes up too much resources on my pc that i dont bother anymore.