Your preferred Anti-Virus Software?

Yes, its true.

Why would you want to make a virus to do harm to Windows while designing it on Windows? Where's the test phase?

While we're on the topic of viruses...
My favorite hoax is the "if you find jdbmgr.exe (which icon looks like a teddy bear) this file on your computer, delete it and email everyone you know that you were infected, and might have passed it on".

Any time you are nervous enough to send an email to everyone in your address book, take a deep breath and make sure it is for real. -this goes for un-believeable urban legends as well.
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/jdbmgr.html

Its one thing to look stupid because you executed a virus and broadcast a melissa style virus to everyone in your address book. It is quite another when someone like me sends a email back to you with links to the virus hoax on mcafee.com.

C

After purchasing McAfee in 1997 for my laptop, and doing it again several years later when they went and got all hotsy totsy on me and became subscription based, I went to Trend Micro because it came OEM. I liked it very much. So much for the other one. Tried Symantec. Stat. Then discovered AVG and have been using it ever since. But still go to Housecall just often enough to keep my system honest.

AVG free

I have been using Norton myself and never had problems with a virus, whereas I know others who have used other products have, Maybe I have been lucky but I try to be careful too.
It's true that no one program will detect all virus's but using one does give some protection against most.

Norton SystemWorks 2003 w/ Personal Firewall......no problems as of yet. i like it.......isnt slowing my computer down any that i can notice either.......

videobruce - "That's almost as bad as saying I don't wear seatbelts!"

If you had razor wire around you instead of a seat belt, I bet you'd take more care to avoid accidents.

Common sense has to be the most important AV tool. The AV companies only develop cures when the viruses (correct plural according to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) are on the loose (unless you're a conspiracy theorist who believes that the AV companies are writing them!). People who download executables and run them, thinking that their AV package knew what to look for, are the AV companies' guinea pigs.