Free antivirus…

Sick to death of sh1te mcafee antivirus leaving me unprotected, so which is the best free AV. Avast or AVG?

Thanks

Both work well. I use AVG (no real reason over Avast, just the one I tried first and it does the job well).

Avast here. Same but opposite reasons as clubber 🙂 Very unobtrusive as well, litte notification its updated itself every week or so, and a small momentary splash screen when I start outlook.

avast

avg badly slows down opening word documents for me (adds 10 seconds of 100% cpu usage opening a simple word doc!)

Microsoft Security Essentials. Free for anyone on genuine XP, Vista or 7 and very good.

retro83 – interesting – I don't get that…

Avast, I switched from AVG a few years ago as AVG was slow but may be improved since then.

retro83 – interesting – I don't get that…

Maybe it's fixed, could have been a glitch in the defs at the time I installed it.

Word 2003 SP3 btw

Comodo do anti virus and firewall.

Avast here too.

Updates every day and is generally unobtrusive.

It's really worth paying a bit extra and getting Norton. 😈

No grumm, no it's not.

No need to pay for antivirus.

+1 for Microsoft Security Essentials, been getting good reviews.

Also Antivir Personanl (Free).

If you want to pay for for something, Antivir premium costs 20 EUR.

Sorry was only joking – Norton is probably worse than any virus you might get.

I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

Sorry for the highjack BTW.

Kapersky's free if you bank with Barclays

I think one or two of the other banks offer some free too, check with your bank

Another vote for Microsoft Security Essentials

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx

nimrod2410 – Member
I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

The good free ones mentioned above all work perfectly well. Absolutely no point in shelling out.

Not sure I'd go with the Microsoft one – not because it's bad, I'm sure it's quite good.

But because of who makes it, it may be a bigger, more tempting target for hackers as there would be a lot of kudos for taking it down.

I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

Depends on the kind of websites she frequents. How much porn does she watch? 😈

Migrate to Ubuntu/Linux and you never need to worry about spyware/viruses ever again. Been running it for over 2 years now and love it, can do everything I need to do and there's free software to rival almost all of the mainstream alternatives.

cat Padowan > /dev/null

Geek! (both of you 😉 )

just be done with it and buy a mac, go on you know you want too.

though ubuntu is a good second best.

Grahams – You are one sick man 🙂
shes 11 and Miley **** Cyrus is all she's interested in – i think??

Migrate to Ubuntu/Linux and you never need to worry about spyware/viruses ever again.

Never heard of rootkits then?

Hmmmmm! That was adifficult one, I couldn't actually decide between AVG and Avast so I finally took attractivefish's advice and bought a Mac. Free AV or €1500 on a Mac, no contest. 😆

I'm giving Avast a go, if this doesn't work out I'll try Avast.

Thanks folks.

Some good advice here too:
http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-paying-for-windows-security-microsofts-security-tools-are-good-enough