Comment Either don't back up disposable data or unRAID it. (Score 1) 983
Comment The original you linked to contains a trojan (Score 2, Informative) 139
Comment My faves... (Score 0) 896
- ClamwinAV - The gold standard for linux server admins, ported to Windows - the smallest memory footprint of any of them and doesn't interfere with other antivirus progs.
- Avast - You're crazy if you think it's any harder to get their free version than it ever was. You've always had to re-register for a new key every year. Been using it for over 5 years. Other posters are correct, the voice that alerts you to your daily updates really kills the mood when you're trying to get jiggy with your lady friends. I always turn off that voice first thing.
- Microsoft Security Essentials - This also runs fine with the other antivirus progs.
The only caveat I've found running these 3 progs together is that sometimes one virus prog will flag the automatic virus updates of another prog and try to quarantine them, but all you have to do is add the relevant folder to the list of excluded dirs in whichever program flags the updates. About once a year (or whenever I disregard my own security knowledge and download some infected software), I run several anti-malware progs (spybot,adaware,etc.) and also run a trial of whatever seems like the highest rated commercial antivirus product at the time. This year it was Avira, which I'm still running, but getting sick of the daily pop-up ads. Avira recently did a great job of removing a pesky trojan that other progs had trouble with after I installed an infected bittorrent download. So right now I'm actually running Clamwin, Avira and MSFT Security Essentials. The only time it bogs down my system is when doing a full scan, but that's to be expected.