Best antivirus for computers?

[myleetlepony]

Free or cheap?

I know this was covered at UDBB but I wasn't smart enough to take notes back then. I got a new laptop a few months ago and the McAfee subscription that comes with it ran out, so I need to download something.

[Jan & PJ]

I really like Kaspersky's. Runs quietly in the background without taking up a lot of resources. I've been using it for years and it hasn't failed me yet.

[Astral]

I've been very happy (knock on wood) with Avast and Malwarebytes.

I know a lot of people have had great luck with Kaspersky - but I just didn't. I installed it after a virus-related incident, which was allegedly removed before installation, but the same virus came back a few months later. However, until that happened again, my computer ran very well with it and didn't have any problems.

[Sunshine2Me]

You will probably need to uninstall what you currently have if you are changing solutions. Most often they do not play nice together.