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What is the best free anti-virus right now?

1. What is the best free anti-virus out there right now?
2. Whatever the best is, does it use up a lot of resources or slow down the computer?
3.What are the pros and cons of the best free anti-virus?

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11 Responses to “What is the best free anti-virus right now?”

  1. isis_egypt said :

    AVG

  2. Alexander R said :

    idk the best but ad-aware 2007 works fine for me and its always updated

    it shouldnt slow down ur comp at all unless your scaning your computer

    the flaw is that it doesnt have active protection on the free version so viruses can come in but u can just scan and delete them

  3. Jany said :

    well talking about free antivirus so it is teh AVG..u can find it on
    http://www.download.com
    just download it and give it a go

  4. xH4nn4Hx said :

    i use AVAST free anti-virus software which u can download to your computer its all free just go to http://www.avast.com
    its real good n doesnt slow my computer – but i think u have tp click on the “private home use” one or something like that – cuz thats the free one… :)xx

  5. ChrisP said :

    The best one I know is called Super Anti Spyware. I found it’s really good and it’s for free.

  6. Crystal said :

    AVG is a good one and so is the one from PC Tools.
    Neither use that many resources or really slow your computer down.

    For the pros and cons look it up on these websites and decide for youself.

  7. rossng11 said :

    Ad-aware and Superantispyware are NOT anti-virus software, and will not protect your computer against viruses. Ad-aware is pretty poor at doing what it does; catching spyware.

    Regarding AVG, McAfee and Norton full versions: do not EVER buy these – they slow down your computer and are highly ineffective at catching viruses.

    AVG free version: VERY POOR detection rate: inexperienced computer users like it because a) it’s the only one they’ve heard of and b) it never warns them because it never finds anything.

    Avast!: is OK, but lacks scheduled scanning.

    Any other anti-virus software, such as Comodo (although their firewall is amazing) or PC Tools (although their anti-spyware is good), is generally crap, as the company does not focus enough resources into finding viruses.

    That leads me to my recommendation: AVIRA ANTIVIR CLASSIC 8
    http://www.free-av.com/

  8. Vincent T. said :

    AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
    AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements. Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.

    Avast Home Edition
    Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging–ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic–intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield–monitors and filter all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner–scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner–scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.

    Avira AntiVir Personal
    Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users only. Avira offers: Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms, etc. Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software. Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring. Install and configuration in just a couple of steps. Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system. Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system. Forum and phone support, Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site. Vista Support. Rootkit Detection and Removal. Version 8 adds an enhanced interface, a modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance, an integrated failsafe security system, and SMTP support for AntiVir MailGuard.

    Go to this site for information, you can even download the anti-virus there.
    http://www.download.com/Antivirus-Software/3150-2239_4-0.html

  9. Madhav said :

    avast anti virus is best free anti virus.

  10. Christ K said :

    According to PC World :

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/124475-1/article.html

    BitDefender is the best and has a free edition but some people disagree .

    According to All about Internet :

    All about Internet recommends Trend Micro !

    http://www.all-internet-security.com/top_10_antivirus_software.html

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………

    But in Reality , Kaspersky and NOD32 are the best but there aren’t free :

    TOP 10 FREE Anti-viruses :

    ~Avast : http://www.avast.com FREE HOME EDITION

    ~Avira Anti-vir : http://www.free-av.com

    ~AVG : http://www.grisoft.com

    those 3 free anti-viruses are the best.

    ~Great luck! Enjoy!

  11. Shedlife said :

    The best free anti-virus is AVG 8.0.100 which is downloaded from http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/ i think it does slow down your computers start up but on that link, there are older versions which don’t use up as much computer resources i.e AVG Free Edition 7.5.524

    You also need anti-spyware i’d recommend spybot – search & destory this is also a very effective piece of software!




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