Quote Originally Posted by MalicE View Post
well like I said, we're using Comodo now and seems to be working fine
No. Comodo runs a wicked HIPS & firewall combo, but they only recently moved into the anti-virus space.

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AVs is a really kak story because you can't differentiate between "my AV works" vs "my AV is blind as a bat". You have literally *zero* indication of false positives and *zero* indication of false negatives. So people turn to these reviews for proof (e.g. AV comparatives). Now I can tell you if I were in the AV business thats the first measurement I'd try to game. Looks good on paper, useless in practice.

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Background/protip: Virus writers run their viruses against *all* the major AVs and rewrite it until it doesn't show (virustotal website streamlines this process). So when the AV companies say they catch 1 bazillion viruses you can be dead certain that doesn't include the newly minted one our favorite evil person just wrote. Meaning all this marketing & d!ck measure via stats is pure horsesht. The emphasis should be more on fast reaction time to emerging threats. On that front I've got the feeling that Kaspersky might be leading the pack, but its pretty close (symantec is on the ball too on this front).
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So ultimately it comes down to the user making the right calls. Thats it. Nothing else. An AV is like an airbag in a car...once it gets to that stage you've fcked up pretty solidly already.

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That being said, my personal - very subjective - opinion:

AVs: Kasperky, nod32, avg, mse, avast, panda, avira, bitdefender are all ok. Eset, McAfee and Trend should also be okish. I'm running mse at the moment due to convenience, but readers should be warned that there are concerns about it in certain circles.

Firewalls...I like the comodo one (kak interface aside), but with firewalls if its set up well then you're pretty much winning regardless of brand

HIPS...go for a brand name one. There are some nasty free ones out there. Anything reasonably well known or associated with a major AV brand should be fine.