Well being in the US we know of Symantec and McAfee as being the top dogs, but in Europe Kaspersky is top dog and by many analyst in the field probably the best in the industry.

I really dislike both Symantec and McAfee and have recently started not using any AV software on my system. I have a Ghost image of the main system and store data on another drive.
Been running this way now for months no problem. Downloaded and installed some AV and AntiSpyware and neither found anything - system runs so much faster and smoother without those pieces of junk being installed.

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