What free anti-virus do you find best?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:30 pm

For the life of me I can’t find my virus disc. I don’t want to surf the web completely unprotected, that’s like playing Russian roulette.

So until the magical disc fairy brings my disc back, what freebie virus software do you think I should use?

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 6:21 pm

Microsoft Security Essentials...... you can now stop wasting time looking for that old disc.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:36 am

I forgot to add I have WinXP 64 bit.

Does it work on that?

PsykoPenguin · Post by **PsykoPenguin** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:49 am

RoundEye wrote:I forgot to add I have WinXP 64 bit.

Does it work on that?

Sadly no.

I can only think of AVG or Avast really.

or Avira if you don't have any kind of cracked software or something of that sort. Avira is nice for those absolutely clean computers but it sucks at keeping the exception rules.

Panda is also nice but requires internet connection I believe and also there's no way to add exceptions and it seems to remove things automatically even if it's a false positive.

Pettos · Post by **Pettos** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:22 am

Avast! is awesome, and Spybot S&D resident is awesome too as a firewall type of software.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:00 pm

Damn! AVG is no longer free.

You can download a 30 day free trail.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 9:27 pm

RoundEye wrote:Damn! AVG is no longer free.

You can download a 30 day free trail.

It still is, but anyone on here will tell you it is garbage.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:14 am

Microsoft Security Essentials is great, I use this on a lot of workstations.

Avast! is also good.

I've also heard good things about Avira AntiVir, I have not used that too much.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:22 am

MSE or Avira.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:44 am

SofiaBrown wrote:McAfee Total Protection is best antivirus. It provides continuous, updated, powerful protection against all threats—from rootkits to hacker attacks.

Why is it the best? Also he asked for Free...and McAfee isn't

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:23 pm

McAfee.

Tbob99 · Post by **Tbob99** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:49 pm

wow...i'm with CableDude...McAfee is crap & very hard to remove all traces once you've seen the light : )

Tbob99 · Post by **Tbob99** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:07 pm

I'm considering the 2011 version of Webroot AV with Spysweeper. PC Mag rates it Tops for the new year. Anybody have first hand Knowledge installing & using yet ? Don't want the Freebees & Kaspersky is a speed hog.
thanks in advance for your Pros & Cons.

dwighthuth · Post by **dwighthuth** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:28 pm

What does everyone say about Comodo Internet Security? I use it along with Microsoft as a double layer security system.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:33 am

dwighthuth wrote:What does everyone say about Comodo Internet Security? I use it along with Microsoft as a double layer security system.

You don't want to run more than 1 antivirus package on your system, the real time file protection of each antivirus get step on the toes of the other, and result in less effectiveness....or cancel each other out, cause system errors, lead to file corruption....lots of things that you don't want.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:52 am

Hardware Firewall, ftw!

dontsleep · Post by **dontsleep** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:52 pm

mnosteele52 wrote:Microsoft Security Essentials...... you can now stop wasting time looking for that old disc.

I will agree here.I think MSE has taken the top spot for free antivirus/antisyware.In fact I use it rather than pay for something these days.I switched over from Avast free and before that I used AVG for years but now it is all MSE!

cz777 · Post by **cz777** » Sat May 28, 2011 12:37 am

PsykoPenguin wrote:Sadly no.

I can only think of AVG or Avast really.

or Avira if you don't have any kind of cracked software or something of that sort. Avira is nice for those absolutely clean computers but it sucks at keeping the exception rules.

Panda is also nice but requires internet connection I believe and also there's no way to add exceptions and it seems to remove things automatically even if it's a false positive.

newer panda suxs that's 2010 from 12/10 till today no updates etc e-mail the hell out of them for help with reloading 4 times still NO good !! the hell with that one for 2 years of use ....

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:46 pm

Mr Alfred wrote:Hmm..Here are some best. AVG Antivirus 2013, G Data Antivirus 2013, Norton Antivirus 2013, F-Secure Antivirus 2013 and last but least is Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013.

Only AVG has a free one out of those you listed..the OP asked for "free" ones.
Kaspersky would be one of the best "paid for" ones you can purchase, along with Eset, and G-Data.

Free ones....Microsoft Security Essentials, Panda Cloud, Avast, BitDefenders new one...those are good "free" ones. MSE being the only free one legal for a small business of 10 or less desktop workstations to be able to use.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:58 pm

CableDude wrote:Hardware Firewall, ftw!

Yeah because that'll stop "drive by" installs.

Comodo FTW.

http://www.comodo.com/products/free-products.php

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 6:00 pm

Also, depending on your ISP, there are those that offer free AV/IS suites (Comcast offers Norton 360 as part of your internet package).

SpeedRacer123 · Post by **SpeedRacer123** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:24 pm

The best free antivirus is AVAST.

matthewwhite011 · Post by **matthewwhite011** » Fri Jun 21, 2013 3:31 pm

AVG is the best free antivirus. I used it frequently to secure my windows XP. However, now i am using Windows 7 and Security essential is working fine.

Juliet Wright1 · Post by **Juliet Wright1** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:16 am

AVG is best one..

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:38 am

Avast and AVG are pieces of crap. Bitdefender free is the only free solution (along with Malwarebytes) that I have been using lately and would highly recommend.