What is the best free anti virus program?

Question

What are its pros and cons, and how does it compare to Norton Anti virus program?

Answer 1

I've used AVG for along time and I think its pretty good.

Answer 2

Price has nothing to do with how good something is. Take Norton for example. Norton does absolutely nothing. It simple DOESN'T WORK. It doesn't stop anything from getting through, and worst of all it slows your computer down worse than the spyware/viruses!! It is a SCAM.



What you want is a healthy combination of Spybot: Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware, and most importantly, a safer browser than Internet Explorer.



Safari would be my suggestion, although it is very new for Windows, I expect it will be very good at keeping up with Firefox as far as security goes. Firefox is the other option, though, and Opera's decent too.



But really, uninstall all traces of Norton, and McAfee too. They don't do you any good at all.

Answer 3

the remarkable 3 loose AV courses are Avast, Avira, and AVG (based upon the end results of distinctive autonomous testing labs). i these days reviewed the rankings of numerous autonomous testing labs and located that Kaspersky and BitDefender are the two remarkable paid AV courses with those 2 swapping returned and forth in the remarkable 2 slots on the numerous testing labs. this is to no longer say that they have got been significantly greater effective than some others, like Norton's. many times, the remarkable names are all interior 2 or 3 proportion factors in the testing outcomes.

Answer 4

This is the best free AV at present:



http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp



Leaves Norton & AVG standing.

Answer 5

There's no such thing as THE BEST ANTIVIRUS program. All AntiVirus progras have limitations and most of all they're NOT PERFECT! For me PC-cillin is a good (but not the best!) anti-Virus Program.

Answer 6

It is difficult to say which is good / bad.

For home use , I feel one called AVIRA ( A german Anti-virus brand ) is good . enough.



It is FREE , autoupdates , the moment you connect to internet. The autoscan is a bit slow, but does a total scan , even suspicious file extensions , malwares , browser addons are picked up. AVIRA claims to detect over 2.5 lakh virus definitions.



ALL THE BEST !!



For FREE download please visit :

www.avira.com

Answer 7

norton is not really that good compared to a best free antivirus system called AVG for norton doesn't recognizes viruses that AVG does..

Answer 8

norton is so expensive and cant delete virus completely

introduce u avast/avg free edition

Answer 9

The free ones are all crap, belive me, I tryed 'em all!



I recommend using of Kaspersky ISS, that's the only one I trust and I need no other crap.



Norton AV is crap too, it has an issue when it becomes to scanning highly encrypted zip files, usualy their skipped because of trust, but this one... ughhh

Answer 10

Hmm..ad-aware 2007 is free, and really good. It starts when you get on, or when you program it. Spy bot S&a is really good also. It immunines you to viruses, and is also free.

Answer 11

you decide what is best for you



this is what i use but not free but the best



http://shop.ca.com/



FOR VISTA HERE IS ONE YEAR FREE

THIS IS THE BEST

http://home3.ca.com/SubscriptCenter/MSTrialRegistration.aspx?cid=1855&lang=en-US



FREE SCAN

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx



-Free registry cleaners or trials -



http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/...

http://www.eusing.com/window_washer/wind...

http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_clea...

http://www.abexo.com/free-registry-clean...

http://ccleaner.com/

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

FREE VIRUS PROTECTION ETC

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx

http://www.kiete.com/download/security/index.html

http://security.yahoo.com/

http://www.basicspywaretips.com/spywareremovaltool.html



http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/5390/1ng/us/tp1/v5#avg-anti-spyware-free

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

http://www.spybot.info/

http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/

http://superantispyware.com/

http://mypchelp.blogspot.com/2006/10/essential-free-internet-security.html

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/spyware/default.mspx





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Answer 12

adaware is a free spyware program.baest one out update it regularly

Answer 13

http://www.activevirusshield.com

Answer 14

spybot