What is the best anti virus program ?

[Meteora]

Im having a hard time trusting some not so well known antivirus programs, so recommend some good ones please.

[Paralectic]

Windows Defender in Windows 8

[KamiKatze]

Norton Anti Virus!!!

 

Kaspersky in my opinion.

[Semper]

Always have, always will use Avast.

http://www.avast.com/en-us/index-win

[Russboy360]

Always have, always will use Avast.

http://www.avast.com/en-us/index-win

Same, it is great, and if you recommend 7 friends you get a paid licence for free

[simtransporter]

I run MSE on my computer, and then occasionally I scan my entire system with MBAM.

[Xquisite]

Microsoft Security Essentials coupled up with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

[pjm0925]

Common sense.

[Hodor]

Avast

[Builder]

Any antivirus will be less than 50% effective. Especially on Windows, it's kind of just going to happen sooner or later. I suggest if you really want to protect yourself to do all of your browsing in a Ubuntu virtual machine and then game on the Windows side. Even then, something will happen eventually.

 

Bitdefender is consistently at the top of the lit for detection rates.

 

http://www.av-test.org/en/home/?avtest[type]=0

 

http://www.av-comparatives.org/detection-test/

 

If you want scientific data, there you go. Defender is a joke unless you really don't care enough to spend money on it. When I was a Windows user, I just reinstalled every time I contracted a virus. Even if they detect it it is unlikely it will be removed entirely.