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Free Anti Virus software?

jayteecork · 2007-10-20 16:46:30

So my McAfree subscription has just run out on my Dell laptop and I need some virus protection. What about AVG and AntiVir? Which am I better off getting, or is there any other alternatives? Thanks.

20-10-2007 4:46pm

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jayteecork

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So my McAfree subscription has just run out on my Dell laptop and I need some virus protection.
What about AVG and AntiVir?
Which am I better off getting, or is there any other alternatives?
Thanks.

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#2 20-10-2007 4:50pm

barneysplash

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I use avast from Alwil software. It's free and great.

www.avast.com

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#3 20-10-2007 5:19pm

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I use avast as well. AVG and anti-vir are the other two, only reason I gave up AVG is because it stop working during and update and I couldn' get it going again.

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#4 20-10-2007 5:24pm

Silenceisbliss

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AVG ftw

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=aff

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#5 20-10-2007 5:52pm

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Avast gets my vote!

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#6 20-10-2007 5:56pm

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I've been using avg for about two years now and it's great.

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#7 20-10-2007 6:17pm

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barneysplash wrote: »

I use avast from Alwil software. It's free and great.

www.avast.com

I agree. Avast! is good.

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#8 20-10-2007 6:19pm

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AVG gets my vote

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#9 20-10-2007 11:45pm

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when I was 18 I ran a pc repair company. I did a test to see which AV product was the best. I set up PC's with Norton, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky and eTrust.

AVG was the only one which found all the viruses I infected the machines with. Norton missed 2, Mcafee missed three. I forget what the other results were. I still use AVG on my personal windows box, and I downloaded AVG anti-spyware last week also. Avg gets my vote.

Or you could switch to linux :P

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#10 20-10-2007 11:49pm

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I switched to Avast! a few months back after AVG broke one too many times and failed to detect a virus (That I suspected was there, and updated and scanned and scanned... *rants off-line*). I have not used AntiVir so I cannot comment.

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#11 21-10-2007 5:23pm

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I use AVG on my windows box. But AVAST comes with a lot of recommendations too.

You could always check this thread too.

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#12 21-10-2007 5:27pm

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I use AVG on my parents home PC, college requires us to use McAfee - even on my mac - but I don't pay for that so it's grand.

Trusted Reviews had a good introductory article about keeping your PC safe for free today.

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