MS Security Essentials, AVG, etc. are all pretty good and Iâve used them, and Vipre. Lately I switched to Kaspersky Internet Security 2012. It is not cheap though, but I must say it has a very high quality design, and it has caught several nasties that the other programs had not and do not notice. I recommend it if anybody wants to actually pay for anti-virus.

Curiously, Vipreâwhich claims to not bog down your machineâdid exactly that on my desktops, but not on my wifeâs laptop. Some programs conflict with it but neither I nor the Sunbelt tech support could ever figure out what it was.

Bob Dickow, Moscow, Idaho (where spurias do spectacularly well, and Siberians donât (need too much precious water))