Best free antivirus?

[McBeck]

Whats your thoughts?
I need it for Win7

[AVGWarhawk]

Avast. I use it for Vista 64 without issue. I believe it covers 7 as well.

http://www.avast.com/

Get the free home version. You will send in your email address and they send you a registration number good for a year. You can re-up in a years time. It is a good free AV.

[Castout]

Try COMODO Internet Security.

or Avira.

[Hylander_1314]

Antivir is pretty good. Don't have to shut it off before loading up any sims or games, and the support is great too. Although the cost of paying for it isn't bad, as I originally paid about 60 USD for a 3 year service, and a week later they sent an email and applied a bunch of coupons and rebates and knocked it down to around an actual price of 14 USD per year for a 3 year service. So I really can't complain about the cost of it, and it works well with my other software, and hasn't caused any interference with games or anything else.

Just my .02 cents

[Gerald]

can have AVG,but the best I use is F-Secure Client Security, it cost a bit but you can be relax and calm for unhappy thing...:)

[McBeck]

Have used AVG...but will give Avast a try

[Highbury]

I am using Panda Cloud on Win 7 64bit. Very low resource use (the lowest usage process on my PC) and it never bugs me with crap, just sits there blocking viruses.

I came to trust Panda years ago during the whole "blaster.worm" thing. I got the worm on my PC, as did a friend.. Norton, McAfee etc etc all wanted you to use removal tools, reboot in safe mode and back and forth 3 - 4 times. Panda just auto-removed it, no fuss and no work from me. That is what I want in an AV, one that does it's job and doesn't make me do it.

[FIREWALL]

@ McBeck Take a look at other Avast and other anti virus threads posted here.

I've used Avast for a year on all 5 of my computers and no problems.

Avast is considered one of the best.

[JSLTIGER]

Avast is fantastic. I've been using it for more than 3 years with no problems whatsoever. It has no problems working with Win 7 Pro x64, as that's the setup I have running on my laptop.

[Arclight]

Aye, another vote for Avast. Never have any infections, so it must be doing it's job. :DL

[Raptor1]

Aye, another vote for Avast. Never have any infections, so it must be doing it's job. :DL

Either that or you're filled with them and Avast doesn't detect anything...

But I'll vote for it as well.

[McBeck]

Yeah...its trust tests that actully show the level detection rather than "I have never had any problems" ;)

I have looked around and avast seems to score pretty high...

[Arclight]

I know, that's why the grin at the end of my previous post. ;)

Still, it came highly recommended, I'm satisfied and it alerted me 2 or 3 times in the past 2 years or so; it's at least doing something. :lol:

[AVGWarhawk]

At the very lest Avast is at the top three. I run malwarebytes, firewall from the Vista OS and run Windows Defender once a week.

[FIREWALL]

There's always NORTON. :har: :haha: :rotfl2:

[JSLTIGER]

Oh G-d! Norton...:damn: The system resource hog from hell...just thinking about it...::shudder::

[Castout]

At the very lest Avast is at the top three. I run malwarebytes, firewall from the Vista OS and run Windows Defender once a week.


Eeer what? You can actually run windows defender? That's something new for me :rotfl2:. Really I'll see to run it now.

Edit:Oh well it already runs daily automatically

[antikristuseke]

Would recommend Avast for free and Kaspersky if you are going to pay.

Oh G-d! Norton...:damn: The system resource hog from hell...just thinking about it...::shudder::

Oh dear gods, norton was only worth something back in the dos and win 3.1 era.

[JSLTIGER]

I know...that's why I recommended avast (which is what I use now). :up:

[FIREWALL]

The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.

Or throw your computer out the window. :har:

[longam]

Norton has to be the worse case scenario for not starting from scratch when coding. I think the engine is still original from the 80's..... :haha:

[Task Force]

useing the free Mcafee thingy that comes from my ISP, and avira, done good sofar...

[onelifecrisis]

I'm actually using Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/) at the moment. :o

And it seems to work fine!

I used to use AVG but it needs its own dedicated CPU core. :nope:

[Rockin Robbins]

The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.

Or throw your computer out the window. :har:

Actually, that's not quite true. In the bad old days, when I eradicated the Beast, you could manually unhook Norton from Windows by editing the registry, removing each line that hijacked the read/write routines and referenced the Norton routines, which NO LONGER EXISTED if you uninstalled. You had to make the registry changes and then uninstall Norton. Was a permanent fix.

Then Norton was taken to court and required to make available a free "Norton removal tool" on their site. Of course they try to keep it as hidden as possible and probably move it around a lot so people can't link to it, but Google knows all and a search for "Norton removal tool" is all it probably takes.

Slimey corporate behavior sucks! Norton is off my list forever as a possible software supplier. They could do whatever they like in the future but my death penalty stands. No more Norton anything on any of my machines.

[Rockin Robbins]

I vote for Linux. It's the best antivirus system out there. Run Windows in a Virtualbox and you're good to go!

[kiwi_2005]

I'm actually using Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/) at the moment. :o

And it seems to work fine!



When i tried MSE I get wicked slowdowns. Did a big clean up of main pc like i do once a year - reformat and reinstall XP/Vista dual setup. Decided to try MSE on a clean system but still get the same results. Gets that bad that I can't move the mouse at times. So im just running the free version of Avira atm

[u crank]

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[Jimbuna]

Spammer from Gujarat in India....gone now.