AVG Anti-virus or....

[Abhorsen]

I use Avast personally, and it's always managed to catch anything horrible before it made it's way onto my computer xD

im not to happy about avast. sometimes when i do a full scan it still find something that passed trough the shields, or malwarebytes/adaware find things

[olaph]

Microsoft Security Essentials(Formerly BitDefender) is one I highly recommend, it is light weight, fast and has picked up/cleaned everything I have thrown at it.

AVG on the other hand is slow, has a poor track record of virus removal and has fairly high memory usage.

[Glytch]

im not to happy about avast. sometimes when i do a full scan it still find something that passed trough the shields, or malwarebytes/adaware find things

woah seriously? Everytime I scan using Avast it never finds anything. So weird that things got through the shield though. Mine always blocks everything.

[Redonkulous]

Decided to go with avg 2012 bought edition (friend had extra full version is why) So far so good, i have tested it for over an hour with just about anything i throw at it is instantly caught. I dont know why you said it requires a lot of memory, 50 aint much at all.

[olaph]

Decided to go with avg 2012 bought edition (friend had extra full version is why) So far so good, i have tested it for over an hour with just about anything i throw at it is instantly caught. I dont know why you said it requires a lot of memory, 50 aint much at all.

50mb for the main anti virus component, add in real time scans, the numerous shields, anti spam,etc and it adds up to a few hundred MB of ram.

Compared to the alternatives on the market it, it is quite bloated.