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Originally Posted by Rathji
Avast is a close second, but it is annoying on my wifes computer with audio self congratulations. It is free though.
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You can disable the audio in Avast. I always found the "Virus database has been updated" a bit cheezy and annoying. Yes - you're a friggin' anti-virus program - just shut up, do your job, and speak only when you have something important to say.
I use Avast at home and at work and I like it. We switched from AVG here at work because version 8 of AVG was just too sluggish for us.
As for spyware, I don't do any real-time spyware protection. I find that it isn't necessary for me. Occasionally I'll run an on-demand scanner like Spybot or Ad Aware, but generally it doesn't pick anything up.