Howdy Biffy
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Ooooook you're looking for a new AV program. Which product did you use til now? What kind of hardware (total RAM size, processor speed, operating system) do you use? Cann you give us some more details about your PC please?
Good addresses to get an overview and details about AV programs and its qualities can be found here:
1.
http://www.av-test.org/ here
2.
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02 or here
3.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/ (Choose Comparatives from the left menue)
F-Secure is a known and good program. Takes a bit longer to scan a complete computer but scan speed depends on your system you're running an AV program with. The table (s. 3.) does show you that F-Secure has nearly the same quality like the Kaspersky product.
So many vendors integrate multiple scan engines of other vendors in their products to cover 'all' possible kind of infections.
IMHO look for an AV scanner which suites to your computer, means if your computer is an old and slow one (less RAM, slow processor and HDDs) choose a product, that doesn't makes your PC slower.
Greetz
B. Udo
(i want my xp back!!!) ... yep, i had read that most av-programmes are slowing down the puter (which i don't really mind, i'm taking a break for that time and have a good excuse a s well .. ;o)))