First of all, since this is mostly off-topic, I would ask that unless you
really want to respond to the list, please respond to me privately and I
will summarize back to the list in a day or so.

I'm trying to determine the best (or least of all available evils)
Anti-Virus software for PCs (and perhaps the occasional Mac).

<semi-rant>
For the last year we have been using McAfee's VirusScan, which was sold to
us by an NAI direct marketer.  Now that our one-year "subscription" has run
out, they want us to pay approximately twice the cost of going to Fry's and
buying a new copy of the software for each employee, just for a one year
renewal.

Both McAfee and Norton's web sites say nothing about limitations on how long
you can download virus definition files, and both seem to allow unlimited
downloads of these files, yet I think every version I've seen has eventually
stopped working and demanded money before proceeding.  Our VirusScan
software has just started (a month before the contract is supposed to be up)
refusing to automatically download virus definitions unless we re-subscribe,
and one of us has a Dell PC at home that came with an allegedly free copy of
Norton Anti-Virus 2000 that recently did exactly the same thing after a
month or two.

Ideally I'd like to be able to simply pay a reasonable ($20/user/year is
what I can buy the upgrades for at Fry's) annual fee that would cover both
the "DAT" definition files and software upgrades to the latest version of
the scanning software, but this seems to be impossible to do as a "corporate
user" because as soon as they find out you're a business they require that
you talk to a sales rep who will try to squeeze as much money as possible
out of you.  I'm therefore leaning towards just ordering N copies of one of
the basic single user packages and then buying software upgrades as needed.
</semi-rant>

So I'm looking for suggestions/experiences as to what the best solution is,
are any of the anti-virus companies actually reasonable to deal with, etc.

Thanks,

G.