As the title suggests, does anyone know of a good anti-virus program that is free? Symantec has always been the one i use, but i just recently reformated the CPU, and cant seem to find that disc. If anyone has a suggestion, I would certainly appreciate it :)
Thanks
Edited, Wed Nov 9 00:18:39 2005 by acepod
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If you felt the need to read a 4th response, by all means. My suggestion is to re-read posts 1-3 for your final answer. AVG, is my choice. Have had no experiance with Avast. Since AVG is free, you get no support for it from the makes it (not that you get great help from McAfee or NAV, but still...).
Avast is a bit of a heavy, memory hogging application. Install it on anything slower than 1.0 GHz and you'll see what i'm talking about.
AVG is my free AV of choice, no trial period involved.free.grisoft.com
AVG is my free AV of choice, no trial period involved.free.grisoft.com
Excellent, thank you everyone, i am downloading the AVG now.
Maybe I'll try AVG out. I'm not too excited about Avast because of the reasons blowfin mentioned. Not that my processor can't handle it, but I like things to run as quickly and efficiently as possible.
please keep in mind that in a review of 80 antivirus programs the best score of any freeware antivirus came in 63rd. AVG came in 67 place and cought aprox 75% of virus thrown at it..
I'll post the review if I can find it.
Top 3:
1. F-Secure
2. Panda antivirus
3. F-protect (thats the one I'm running)
The big names we all know, like mcafee and symantec started popping up around 6th place (surpised me)
I'm not 100% certain but I think the results are a bit skewed by the fact some of the products had antispyware features and the testers counted up all "undesirables" meaning spyware and virus had the same score, but anyway my point is the "best" free ones still missed a lot of actual virus.
Kinda scary.
I'll post the review if I can find it.
Top 3:
1. F-Secure
2. Panda antivirus
3. F-protect (thats the one I'm running)
The big names we all know, like mcafee and symantec started popping up around 6th place (surpised me)
I'm not 100% certain but I think the results are a bit skewed by the fact some of the products had antispyware features and the testers counted up all "undesirables" meaning spyware and virus had the same score, but anyway my point is the "best" free ones still missed a lot of actual virus.
Kinda scary.
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