What's better, AVG or Avast anti-virus?

Why? I would also like to know if you know any other better anti-viruses and also anti-spyware and firewalls?

What's better, AVG or Avast anti-virus?norton 360

I first used AVG, then later Avast! %26 lastly I now use Antivir anti-virus by Avira. All of these products are free %26 can be downloaded at download.com.

AVG has the lowest of the free products of success in locating viruses, Avast is a little better but Antivir outshines the others by a mile. In some tests it has even beaten paid editions of Kaspersky %26 Bitdefender in detection rate, though this really depends on who is doing the testing. Kaspersky as a commercial product is probably the best of the non-free anti-virus programs; although you could try the free AOL Active scan which uses an older Kaspersky detection engine. This is also a good product but I found it uses greater system resources %26 slowed down my old Pentium 3.

I can therefore without any doubt recommend the free Antivir Personal Edition Classic; it is widely recognized as a good anti-virus. It's down sides are the virus update server which is on the slow side when connecting %26 an advert that pops up when you update. If you can put up with these minor annoyances, this would be my recommendation to you.

One other criticism of some people towards Antivir is that it's user interface is not as appealing or as feature rich as AVG or Avast. I would agree. Of course, if I ever needed to choose between two virtually identical pieces of sofware, the user interface might then be of real importance to me... but that is not the case with an antivirus package. Surely the MAIN criteria of an antivirus program is its effectiveness %26 not how snazzy its interface looks! Antivir's interface is plain but who cares, it protects my pc. People choosing on other grounds have obviously lost the point of why they have an antivirus. Another more naive comment often given concerning anti-virus programs in general is that they are all basically the same %26 its just down to personal choice. This is nonsense. Yes some may fall into a similar catergory of very good, good, etc. But there are clearly very good products %26 some which are poor or very poor in their effectiveness or functionality. To suggest that they're all the same is misguided to say the least. Whatever products YOU choose, at least try to make your choices based on valid factors rather than superfluous comments.