Whats a good free antivirus?

[Deleted_171835]

BitDefender. Is. The. Best.

Nothing else needed.

Edit: Cracked version.

 

[user0002]

Avast Home Edition is probably the best. It's free, you get a license for a year and when it ends you just renew it. Simple.

 

[dirty_harry]

go to filehippo.com. Click the security section and read about the programs. This site has a great collection of free software, and it is very very frequently updated. I strongly recommend this place.

 

[bazamuffin]

Avast! antivirus serves me well. Home edition updates and has on access protection that is superb. Has won many awards for best antivirus.

 

[raulpica]

I'm currently working as a PC Technician, so I know quite a bit on PCs, n00bs users and viruses.
I can say that the PCs which come with avast! on board are the most virus ridden.
After that, NOD32, Kaspersky and the others come as close seconds.
AVG is pretty crappy, but it does its work, sometimes.

The best is without doubt Avira AntiVir.

 

[mew512]

i found an AVG crack for a friend its pretty good it detects everything (the keygen makes keys for every AVG product)

 

[saxamo]

The best thing you can do for protection is NOT TO USE AN ADMINISTRATOR account on XP. Use a regular user account and when you need to install something, just switch over.

 

[B-Blue]

I've been using Avast! (free version) for almost a year. It is pretty good acutally and much better that most non-free ani-virus softwares (nod32, kaspersky, etc...).

But a couple of months ago I heard and read good reviews about MSE, and I thought why not give it a try. ....I FELL IN LOVE!

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Installation was a breeze and it didn't take more than 2 minutes (the setup will check if you have a genuine version). After that, the program asked for an update (nothing new here) so I updated and everything. After than I did a quick scan and was really impressed! it was fast compared to Avast! and even found some stuff that Avast! didn't found before! And it really "quite" compared to Avast!, no pop up messages every time "the virus database has been updated" or anything.

It's really a nice piece of software and I don't think I'm gonna switch back to Avast! any time soon. I recommend you give it a try, I'm sure you'll love it too

.

 

[ddetkowski]

I tried all of the free, never had good results (someone hacking my firewall) problems....
Since I've installed Norton 360, no firewall attacks, nothing.....
It's not free, 65 bucks a year, but its the best out there...........

 

[Satangel]

I really can't see why AVG Free isn't enough. It has done the job for me for years, it works like a charm.
No complaints at all, super fast scanning and doesn't hog my system at all.

 

[zeromac]

Just a heads up, Avast! 5.0 official release just got released this week.

http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Yay! I might have to give it a go Avast a go again. I wonder if they beat MSE in benchmarks.

Thanks! i Just updated my Avast 4.8 to 5.0 and the interface is SOOOO much cooler and easier to use because i thought the 4.8 interface was retarded. and everything is in one menu and stuff is easier to see

Thanks

 

[DeMoN]

I'm currently working as a PC Technician, so I know quite a bit on PCs, n00bs users and viruses.
I can say that the PCs which come with avast! on board are the most virus ridden.
After that, NOD32, Kaspersky and the others come as close seconds.
AVG is pretty crappy, but it does its work, sometimes.

The best is without doubt Avira AntiVir.

What? Are you saying that Nod32 and Kaspersky are the second-worst Antiviruses? Because, usually people recommend them as the best.
Avast does suck, I can attest to that.

Avira might be the best at detection, but it's countless pop-up advertisements and false postivies will annoy the crap out of you.

 

[Feels Good Man]

Do you have to uninstall Avast 4.8 to upgrade to 5.0 or is there some other way to update it?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just installed it and it seemed to uninstall the previous version. This seems a lot... slower. Well, the interface

 

[zeromac]

Do you have to uninstall Avast 4.8 to upgrade to 5.0 or is there some other way to update it?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just installed it and it seemed to uninstall the previous version. This seems a lot... slower. Well, the interface

I reackon the new interface is FUCKING AWESOME

the old one was retarded, it looked like a mp3 player and the alternative scan had crappy icons. 5.0 interface is sooo much better interms of simplicity.
My only gripe that i don't really care about now is that when i installed 5.0 and restarted my comp, i couldnt scan my comp cos the icons didn't show up

I just restarted my comp again and everything worked.. mustve been a minor bug

 

[Dark Blade]

Try Avira AntiVir. It's pretty good.

 

[misteromar]

MSE

 

[Hakoda]

Do you have to uninstall Avast 4.8 to upgrade to 5.0 or is there some other way to update it?

EDIT: Nevermind, I just installed it and it seemed to uninstall the previous version. This seems a lot... slower. Well, the interface

I reackon the new interface is FUCKING AWESOME

the old one was retarded, it looked like a mp3 player and the alternative scan had crappy icons. 5.0 interface is sooo much better interms of simplicity.
My only gripe that i don't really care about now is that when i installed 5.0 and restarted my comp, i couldnt scan my comp cos the icons didn't show up

I just restarted my comp again and everything worked.. mustve been a minor bug

I used to have Avast! on past machines but now I have Bitdefender 2010. I must the say the new GUI actually looks like an AV. Its true; the old one looked like an MP3 player....

5.0 looks good....

~ Jon

 

[Feels Good Man]

lol whoops. What I meant by slower was that it seemed to drag my start up speed for some reason. I dont know what's up

 

[JakePsycho]

Nod 32. Best for gaming, or for people who need their sucky amount of ram.

*snipped*

 

[R4Liam]

Avast isn't even free, it says it only has 4 days left and to extend it i need to pay. Is there an actually free anti virus?