What was your first antivirus?

[Butterfly]

My first was ESET Smart Security version 4.0 If my memory of the gui is right, it came with my pc and had a 1 year license, when that year ended I saw it stopped working and then started looking into other AVs. That was actually also the time when I discovered the wonderful world of internet security.

 

[songoku316]

my first antivirus was mcafee

 

[Crystal_Lake_Camper]

my first antivirus whas norton av 2002 did not know much about computing back then guess I am an autodidact now

 

[Smith83]

autodidact

Had to google that.

 

[CySecy825]

Avira free about 2012 heard first time and MSE very long time ( old pc)

 

[Exterminator]

GUI is the same concept prior to V3 V3 is when they introduced smart security (oh the up roar that followed after the release of v3...)

Prior to version 3 EAV had a cult like following probably still does in some way.Version 3 was a big deal I stayed with version 2 for a while until the Chinese started handing out 90 day keys like Halloween candy.I still have some of those codes somewhere that still work but it would probably take me a while to find them

 

[McLovin]

Mine would of had to be Trend Micro (aka PC-Cillin) and it was a 5 users one year and to this day I'm still using their products. I've used other products but always keep coming back to Trend Micro. It's something about the program I love. haha
When it comes to mobile started off with Avast, then moved to Trend Micro.

 

[hjlbx]

Avast free like 12 years ago...

 

[Viking]

My first antivirus was Norton Internet Security 2003 that was pre installed on my old Xp.
I wasn't new to computers back then as I had my my first pc back in 1988 (386 Machine),
but my first internet enabled pc was in 2003.

 

[Warrior]

Dr Solomon's Antivirus in 1991 for up to
Windows 98 Second Edition..

 

[bunchuu]

my first antivirus was Mcafee in mid 90 (for windows 95 edition). I amazed by mcafee ability to detect hidden file/virus.

 

[Alkajak]

The first one I use was Symantec. Like this.

For me as well.

 

[Overkill]

I don't remember the very first, but one of the first was Norton.

 

[Wihat]

For me as well.

But I remember that the GUI while update was different. This seems quite strange for me.

 

[milas]

I started out with Symantec. For 5 years I bought Symantec then had enough with Symantec/Norton because I crashed my OS so much that Norton would only allow me so many re-installs before they blocked anymore installations from CD. (2000-2005 aprox.) Then I went to Panda AV for a couple of years..then tried many others like AVG, Avast,.tried them all.

 

[Daniel Hidalgo]

Norton Antivirus 2002 with Windows ME

 

[Morvotron]

Can we please take a minute to realise how ugly and horribly looking were the GUI back on those days? And it was top quality by then.. I mean, i even see some Arial Black on some interfaces..

 

[Cch123]

Avast was my first

 

[Andrew999]

Avast Free

 

[OokamiCreed]

2003 is when I heavily messed with computers. Mostly for Age of Empires (man I was obsessed with that game). First AV that I remember is AVG so probably was that. Many schools in my state use AVG (did it's job considering no computers were infected). First AV I installed myself was Comodo IS.