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Best free anti-virus program?
Dublo7
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What's the best free anti-virus program out there on the internets?
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I'll give AVG a try.
I used it once to remove a virus and it just killed my PC. Wouldn't boot after AVG did whatever it did.
If you have a virus... you'll probably spend less time reformatting instead of trying to remove it. Just my opinion
This is why it's recommended as one of the best, free anti-virus programs.
http://www.free-av.com/
Yeah, me too.
It sure is a lovely application. I bought the premium version, which is even better
If it's a completely free AV you need though, I'd actually recommend you to download AOL's Active Virus Shield. Despite the name, it's actually just a slightly slimmed down version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6, which is one of the very best AV's you can get. Some of the best detection rates, lightweight & as secure as you'll ever get for free. Just remember to untick the option to install AOL's toolbar at the end of the installation.
Ad-aware is great. It's just not for viruses. It's for spyware and malware, which are just as annoying.
...cus it is Czech.
This smells dubious.
There's a entirely reasonable explanation for that. First, the regular Kaspersky will do exactly the same as AOL's version is developed by Kaspersky Labs, and it pretty much the same application, just with a different skin. Secondly, you should never ever under any circumstances whatsoever have more than 1 real-time AV shield running at the same time. Never. Doing so will at best not help you at all, but more often the two applications can cancel each other out and at worst even break your Windows installation, forcing you to reinstall the OS.
Tha's cool because I use both Ad Aware and Spybot.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
That site will pick up EVERYTHING.
And it's not just me, IIRC, it was either PCmag or PCworld that did a showdown a few months back, and found that Antivir outperformed the other two, by far.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
It's actually quite easy to get rid of that nag screen permanently
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No, but you're just wasting resources with Ad-Aware. It no longer serves any real purpose as it detects far to little to be of any use. What you should install instead is the free and excellent Spyware Terminator :^:
Actually, in most of the AV software rankings I've seen trend-micro is usually lower than the free ones mentioned here; I assume the online version isn't somehow superior to their commercial product.
OTOH the desktop program also comes with a pretty good firewall, which might make it more effective in practice.
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I'll check out Antivir and see if it fixes his problem. He just can't seem to lay off those email attachments.
It auto-renews when the license expires, iirc. They just have it that way in case they ever decide to revoke the free version, and as well, it probable works better that way with the systems they already have in place for people who bought the premium version. IE, like, when it asks for an update, the servers might demand a valid key. But yeah, you're fine right now.
Avast has the same system going.
I'M A TWITTER SHITTER
I've got AVG, ZoneAlarm, Spybot, Ad-Aware, Spywareblaster, and A-Squared, and I'm running Firefox with NoScript, Cookiesafe, and Adblock Plus. Behind a firewalled router. I also run frequent HijackThis checks.
You're definitely not overdoing it. I might be.
Avast! seemed to take up too many resources for too little return. If I do replace AVG soon, it'll be with Kaspersky, or maybe the Etrust suite.
Do you really need all that?! I use only AVG and I haven´t had any problems with virus and spywares, except the occasional email infected with some crap that gets easily detected, in quite some time.