Free Antivirus

[viper357]

Those of you that have used the free versions of Avast or AVG anti virus programs, which one do you prefer?

 

[Mike]

Voted AVG, nothing special but it seems to work.

 

[lanzo]

AV never gave me any problems

 

[Andreas]

yip AVG!

 

[Alan]

Use AVG at work and Avast at home, never had any hassels from either, just prefer Avast. Both seem to be better than Nortons.

 

[Rory]

Anything is better than Norton.

 

[Warr7207]

Anything is better than Norton.

Too true

 

[Mike]

Anything is better than Norton.

Too true

I don't know if we get a different version, but Norton is fairly well respected over here, just like the others mentioned it does it's job, my wifes PC uses norton, never had a problem with it. I suppose all these anti virus programmes are fine if you avoid gimp.com etc

 

[Andreas]

yip agree with you wee-man.use norton on my laptop and have never experienced anything bad.does what it's suppose to do

 

[Shaun]

I think Norton Sux, 2 years ago I had a virus and Norton was the only one that did not pick it up. After doing some research, I found out the the guys write viruses so that the "big" guys , Norton included do not pick then up.

 

[Andreas]

when last did you update it at the time?the thing is that you need to update it regularly otherwise it wont know that it is malicious software

 

[viper357]

Can you install and run 2 anti-virus programs on the same pc?

 

[Andreas]

yes you can

 

[Shaun]

The report I read said you should run 2 av programs, but that was 2 odd years ago. Now days I don't know. They said run one well know AV and one of the others.


Norton updated by its self I think at that stage the had updates every 1 or 2 weeks.

 

[jacquesb]

Hi guys - I always run AVG, ClamAV, AND ZoneAlarm on all my Windows PC's. I must say - up till now I have never (in 3.5 years) had a problem with viruses/trojans, etc on any of my PC's.

 

[leslie hempel]

guys where can i get i am in need does anyone have a link?

 

[jacquesb]

Here you go Leslie:
AVG Free - Download antivirus and antispyware software for Windows XP and Vista

 

[leslie hempel]

shot dude...

 

[seank]

I used to run all the free antivirus programs, and still got virusses, until the Computer Fundies said to me that running more than 01 antivirus at a time, is not recommended as they work "against each other". Anyway, I bought Kaspersky internet security and it is definately way better than anything else I have ever put on the Pc, as well as the fact that it has an amazing free internet security for your cellphone, you choose your cellphone from a dropdown list, and download. Btw, I heard he was the guy that wrote antivirus programs for the Microsoft Empire's Computers or something like that...

 

[Furbz]

my men, really now. was reading up in a PC mag and avira is a free anti virus that outperforms all others and most paid for programs to! was running norton, then switched to AVG and finally to Avira. Avira found 5 different viruses that the other programs didnt even pick up on in a deep scan. top notch stuff