Just recently, my Norton anti virus subscription expired. I was really not satisfied with norton since it was not detecting all of the threats on my computer. One time, my computer was infected with a nasty Trojan that downloaded a ton of spyware to my computer and made it run so slooooooow. When I contacted technical support, they said that they would be willing to remove the spyware for a "nominal fee" of about $100. After I heard the guy say that, I knew that I have to get new protection. So I decided that I would give bitdefender a try. In terms of features and the level of detection, it was FANTASTIC. However, the only problem is that bitdefender does not function with utorrent. That means that bitdefender is out of the question, since I frequently use utorrent to download files that I want. I was thinking about trying kaspersky next, but I also heard that avast was also pretty good. Which of those two would be better? One of my friends told me that he only uses zonealarm pro to protect his computer, but I wonder if that provides adequate protection against all of the threats that are currently out there. I don't mind if the program is a bit of a cpu hog, I just want something that's excellent at detecting threats. I am currently using windows xp home edition. My cpu is a pentium 4 2.2ghz with an fsb of 400mhz and I have 512mb of pc800rdram. Based on what I want to do, what would be the ideal protection for my pc? Kaspersky, avast, zonealarmpro, or something else? All input is greatly appreciated.

Out of curiosity, what was the problem with BitDefender and utorrent. I used to have both working fine on a XP Prof box.

Right now I am looking for an Anit-virus+Firewall solution too. I tried BitDefender but it doesn't let me run VMWare in a bridged network mode

I am going to try NOD32 and Kaspersky next. This is on a x64 Vista Home Premium.

The problem is that Bitdefender blocks the port that utorrent uses. Even the official utorrent website says that it is impossible to have both programs running at the same time and functioning properly. Also, if you use the registry cleaner, it will remove some of the registry entries for peer guardian. Here is the link to the utorrent page that talks about bitdefender.

http://utorrent.com/faq.php#My.C2. [...] n_trackers

Also, if you are using peer guardian 2, then you may want to steer clear of kaspersky. I already asked about that one on the pg2 forums and some of the moderators told me that it is not compatible with pg2.

Hi

I ust bought NOD32 and I'm pretty happy with it. It's fast and doesn't slow down my PC. And it works with Azureus- though I had to tinker with the settings to make it allow the torrenting.

How difficult is it to use nod32? I heard that one gets pretty technical.

well kaspersky is better than bitdefender and NOd 32 to for me. But i NOd 32 doesn't slow your computer down and havea good detection rate too.
It's true that it has a technical GUI but i don't think it will bother the user if u can spend sometime with it. overall it 's not bad as they say. But kaspershy has a suprior detection rate

1. kaspershy
2. nod32
3. mcafee
well that my chice any way