georgec said:

Tyrphanax said:

Never buy Norton. Frink is dead wrong with that. Norton is practically malware itself and won't ever do anything but take your money and slow your computer down; it's considered one of the bigger jokes in the PC world.

This is what any sane person uses.

If you have bigger problems than day-to-day care, MalWareBytes is where you go.

I've had no problems with MSE, yet somehow they failed AV testing and lost certification.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_security_essentials_flunks_av-test_loses_certification419

Yeah, because MSE doesn't really do 0-Day detection like programs that throw out a false positive over everything that could maybe possibly someday be a virus. I don't find the lack of 0-Day "preparedness" a big deal because it's not a big risk that you'll be one of the first people to get a virus on the first day or before it's recognized and definitions are updated.

That added to the fact that MSE is super lightweight to run and updates very quickly when stuff is recognized without raising a false flag over everything you do makes MSE the first choice for anyone I know who does computery stuff seriously.