What antivirus do you use, if you use it?

[Akolyte]

I dont use any and i deleted the ms crap that the windows wanted me to use and note i have never had a virus in my 4 years of no av crap 

Nice.  Antivirus is always an optional thing, its just advised. 

[DanTheMuffinMan]

AVG myself, although they've been getting more and more annoying lately, might switch to Avast or just the occasional malwarebytes scan...

[Nickolas47]

Kaspersky cause I got it for free with my mobo

[dalekphalm]

Malwarebytes pro and Microsoft EMET.  Oh, and Sandboxie. 

Just an FYI, EMET isn't required anymore, as it was a hotfix only and got patched in (Assuming you're using Windows 7 that is fully up to date).

[Akolyte]

Just an FYI, EMET isn't required anymore, as it was a hotfix only and got patched in (Assuming you're using Windows 7 that is fully up to date).

I know, but it still adds protection from exploits because while Windows includes DEP, it doesn't run by default and EMET has other anti-exploit features.  And your right, its absolutely not required.  I use it anyways.

[EChondo]

Windows Defender(Security Essentials), Malware Bytes(free version), and Avast, but that's rare.

[Toggle]

Avast right now. Sometimes I use Malwarebytes to check for stuff that Avast might have missed.

[handymanshandle]

AVG (Free, 2014 or 2015) and common sense, really all I have AVG for is just in the unlikely event something were to happen. I have weekly scans though usually it finds nothing.

[ZacDaMan72]

My dad swears by Norton 360 and I've never had any problems with it when I turned the boot protection (makes boots slow) off. I don't use it since I upgraded to W8.1 because I CBF.

[NationsAnarchy]

Bitdefender Internet Security 2015 

[dalekphalm]

My dad swears by Norton 360 and I've never had any problems with it when I turned the boot protection (makes boots slow) off. I don't use it since I upgraded to W8.1 because I CBF.

Norton has gotten a lot of flack in the past because their software used to be pieces of shit that were worse then virus infections.

 

But that started to change about 5-6 years ago. Ever since their 2010/2011 products started arriving, they've made a huge change. Their software runs fairly well, and doesn't hog too many resources.

 

Sure it's not the best. But it's still a reasonable choice IF you're going to go for a paid AV solution. I personally would recommend Kaspersky as my Paid solution of choice, but if you happen to get Norton 360 on a good deal (Often can be had for $30 for 3 devices for 1-year), then it's pretty reasonable.

[wrath]

Avast

[duriel]

mse if it even actually runs, i have no idea

 

mbam is just running in the background

[Maxtermin]

Used to be AVG, but then got Kaspersky from Slickdeal for free lol After mail in rebate tho.

[shadowblitz3]

Avast

[asim1999]

Norton has gotten a lot of flack in the past because their software used to be pieces of shit that were worse then virus infections.

 

But that started to change about 5-6 years ago. Ever since their 2010/2011 products started arriving, they've made a huge change. Their software runs fairly well, and doesn't hog too many resources.

 

Sure it's not the best. But it's still a reasonable choice IF you're going to go for a paid AV solution. I personally would recommend Kaspersky as my Paid solution of choice, but if you happen to get Norton 360 on a good deal (Often can be had for $30 for 3 devices for 1-year), then it's pretty reasonable.

I got Norton Internet Security free from my granddad when i built my PC and i am happy with it

[Darel]

Check out bitdefender free, I personaly love it.. http://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html

[Analog]

AVG 2015 (Licensed)

[asim1999]

AVG 2015 (Licensed)

Got that on the 2 other laptops in the house: works perfectly, been a happy AVG customer for 14 years. the only reason that i switched to norton is that the licences wold not transfer to my gaming rig 

[PutuLips]

MBAM for a monthly check.

[asim1999]

MBAM for a monthly check.

Is it worth getting Anti-Malware or is Anti-Virus enough? 

[Linemi]

Windows Defender(w8.1) & MBAM has kept me safe ever since I started using windows 8.x. On w7 I used AVG free + MBAM.

[DIV1D3]

I use Avast!, along with Malwarebytes, pretty much all you need security wise. 

[Opcode]

Is it worth getting Anti-Malware or is Anti-Virus enough? 

Malwarebytes has a free version for just manual scanning and removal. It's labeled as Anti-Malware because it handles a lot more than your standard Anti-Virus. If you run something else already it wouldn't hurt to install Malwarebytes free and run a scan every so often to make sure your current protection isn't leaving anything behind. Personally Malwarebytes Pro is the only active protection that I will use if and when I run Windows. Other than that I usually run no protection at all. Tho now I run Linux as my daily driver so I need not worry about all of that.

[PutuLips]

Is it worth getting Anti-Malware or is Anti-Virus enough? 

Anti-virus does real-time scanning, so malware scans aren't really as good as an active antivirus.