When it comes to a antivirus, the opinions of others whether good or bad are essentially meaningless because their experience will never be the same as YOUR experience. Any paid antivirus-even the most expensive-will offer you a free trial in the hope that you will decide to buy. Take advantage of that and decide for yourself. Even if you find a product that offers "good virus protection", you may decide that you don't like the interface-the features it has-the way it works. You may have to try more than one before finding one that you like but it will be time well spent, especially if you are paying for the product.
I have use AVAST free for so many years on multiple computers. I have not been virused for as long as I can remember. I had used AVG for many years until they started getting too complicated. I would recommend either of these. There is no reason to pay for Anti-virus.
I am currently using Avast Free and so far have had no problems with it, but on March I am putting Kaspersky Pure 3.0 in all of my computers. I got a really good deal for it and liked what they have. Hopefully I will be satisfied with it. Just remember if you have another antivirus software program already on your computer, be sure and remove it all before installing another antivirus program.
To answer your question: Web-root is rated pretty good too.
I'd recommend Avast as well. AntiVir is also good. It used to popup nag screens for the pay version, but they stopped doing that last year. It usually scores near the top, and was easy to use. AVG is the other popular free one, but it used to make for a heavier load on the system.
You can check one of the independent testing labs like av-test.org - where Avast does well - but the first place spot seems to be tough to keep one year to the next. (See link at bottom)
I also don't think it's necessary to pay for an antivirus program. If you know what you're doing and are careful, you don't really need one actually, but for the avg user it's probably a good idea. The problem is, the nastiest stuff out there is ahead of antivirus detection, so you need to stay ever vigilant with your clicks.
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