I think people choose antivirus products for the wrong reasons. There’s a constant horserace between antivirus vendors to catch the highest number of viruses, and people buy into this. If you keep your system patched and you’re careful about how you browse the web and which e-mail attachments you open, you’re unlikely to even come across a virus. So what difference does it make if one product catches 100% of viruses and another catches 97%? You aren’t likely to encounter the oddball 3% anyway.

I have simple needs when it comes to antivirus software. It should be stable, reasonably effective and shouldn’t drag down my PC’s performance. According to its Wikipedia article, ESET NOD32 has been around for 15 years and is written in assembly code, which should increase its performance. I chose NOD32 over AVG Free on Ed Bott’s recommendation. Ed mentioned that he had some performance problems with the AVG product, which was enough to warn me off. As I’ll detail later, I’d rather pay for good antivirus than take a chance at this point.



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