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Originally Posted by Joxer
You could always ditch windows and not need the antivirus.....
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Sorry, appreciate that this is going slightly off-topic, but that's an important point that I feel really needs responding to.
Only
completely irresponsible Linux/Mac users don't have AV software installed and running.
a) There
will be malicious files floating around the web for non-Windows platforms, and even if there aren't.....
b) You will be sharing files with Windows users, you have just as much responsibility as they do to ensure that files you are passing around via the various mechanisms available to you are clean and free from viral payloads.
In response to the OP's question, I've always found Avast to be a perfectly acceptable AV program. I seem to recall that ClamAV has had some reasonable reviews, and it's also available for other operating systems
