Computers & Laptops

[leandrohailey]

I just bought an Alienware laptop and I'm coming from a macbook. I will be gaming and surfing the web mostly. I may use a few torrent sites from time to time. I used to not care at all with my mac but I want to be very careful of virus's with this new computer and I refuse to run a huge, bloated, processor hogging, antivirus that 65 year old men who don't know what a computer is run on their laptop. I was something lightweight and efficient. Any reccomendations?

[Tanarus]

The only free antivirus I can recommend is Microsoft's Security Essentials. It's not very system heavy at all, and it still manages to pick up things here and there that other scans have missed.

[XL]

• Windows comes with a free antivirus
• check your internet provider, sometimes they offer a free antivirus product
• Personally I prefer something paying for Norton 360 that comes with a firewall and additional services to keep away malicious code.  Anti-virus is just the beginning.  Norton products also offer a "silent" mode to minimize impact to high processor loads.  I use it for video editing.

[Drax86]

The Microsoft security essentials is probably your best bet, it works great, is free, is very lightweight and the updates are downloaded automatically with all the standard Windows updates.

I however would recommend buy Norton Antivirus, just the standard antivirus works great you don't need 360 or security, those just add a lot of extra stuff that you don't need since most of it is built into Windows already.