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Best Antivirus?

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LithiumRage158

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So I just received an e-mail from my school's network admin saying he's implementing new security measures on our wireless network. In the e-mail it states that all students running Windows or OS X must have an antivirus program installed on our systems that is up to date and runs full system scans before we can access the wireless network.

I really don't want to install this on my system but it appears I have no choice if I want to use my personal machine at school. He gave a list of known compatible antivirus programs, and I was wondering, out of the following, which ones do you use, and which is the most resource light? Overall protection doesn't really matter to me, I just want one that I won't notice.

The list: ALWIL (Avast), ClamWin, CA, Intego, McAffee, PC Tools Software, Sophos Plc., Symantec, and Trend Micro.

The only Mac antivirus program I've used is iAntivirus, and it's not supported. It was pretty nice though, I definitely didn't notice it was running.

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
This appears to be the most popular one:

Intego VirusBarrier X5
 
I've used the open source ClamWin and don't notice it running... I just have it setup to scan a few folders (Desktop, Downloads, etc) to keep the poo out of the system. Since I run both Windows and OS X, I keep an eye out for my other systems too if downloading random things.
 
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