Looking for computer security

The best antivirus is that which exists between the keyboard and the chair.
All the applications can help, but may not catch everything.

Don't torrent so much weird crap.

I use TrendMicro's Titantium Maximum Security, and have never had an issue with it interfering with my games. It handles everything you're looking for, and does it with an easy to use interface. As an added bonus, it also comes with 1 license for a mobile device in addition to the 3 PC licenses.

I use "avast!" free version with MalwareBytes Free. For the most part, avast! is all in one and Malwarebytes is just for backup. "avast!" is a background (realtime) security program and it's caught everything I've ever come close to getting, from maleware to spyware to viruses to you name it, and I don't think anything has ever slipped by it that I can remember. Compared to the days when my mom was paying for McAfee, this is a huge step up in both the fact that it's free and that McAfee didn't do crap for my protection. avast! also autoupdates.

MalwareBytes doesn't run in the background in real time like avast! does. It's just an executable scanner, but anytime I've used it I can't recall it picking something up because avast! doesn't let anything through. As for avast! not bogging down your system, that's like asking for Superman not to be weak to Kryptonite. The best way to have a realtime security program not bog your system down is not to have one at all. Other than that, expect all background security programs to be a resource hog on some level. However, assuming you're using Windows, the most seamless security program is Windows Security Essentials. Since it's built by the people who have access to the OS's source code, it's significantly more optimized and quite seamless compared to other antiviruses. However, it's nowhere near as efficient in terms of actual security. Not to worry though, avast! isn't as bad a system hog as something like McAfee and it doesn't interfere with any of my downloads, and it certainly won't interfere with any of your gaming, even while autoupdating I've never gotten a frame drop or an inconvenient message yelling at me about how the virus database has been updated. However, do expect those notifications infrequently while on your desktop. As for gaming though, there's no interference.

But another thing: You're treading some shaky ground when you mention torrenting so openly here. We (well, really the moderators) don't take kindly to open talks about piracy. These forums are meant to be clean of that kind of thing.

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