byrnes boots Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 hey can any one help whats the best free antivirus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 avg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangerinedreams Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 avg +2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrnes boots Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 hey can any one help whats the best free antivirus when your free time runs out on avg can you get it free again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 In my opinion AVG wasn't that good. It's up to you... Check this lot out: http://www.owtb.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=16795 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Yeah, I swapped AVG and its annoying "please get the paid-for edition" reminders for Avast! (before I dodged the whole issue and bought a MacBook). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny punkster Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 must have changed it then since i was last using it(about 18 months ago).. never had any gentle hints to buy of them the full version/upgrades etc. if on BT you get McAfee for free..very good IMO and runs nicely without clogging up everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beag_teeets Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 You may find this interesting: Product Removal of malware removal of leftovers McAfee average average Sophos average average Microsoft good good Full comparison report at : http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stor...emoval_2009.pdf I use comodo, before that I used AVG and I haven't had a problem either virus, trojan, malware or anything like that nor have I had a slow system. But this raises a couple of points, I am pretty careful what I do with my windows pc, I don't open stupid attachments, install dodgy software or any of the other no nos so theoretically I could have been running no AV product and been perfectly fine apart from sasser I think, that was a good bit of code. Plus my pc is reasonably decent spec so a bit of processing power and ram devoted to AV doesn't hurt. But it makes you wonder what the AV products are actually doing? Are they doing anything worthwhile at all? Plus they tend to be reactive rather than proactive. Big grey area if you ask me, the best thing you can do is be a sensible web user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 AVG's free antivirus used to be one of the best, but I get the impression it has fallen back. If you don't want to pay (circa £30-40 a year) then the best bet is to trawl internet review sites and go for a combination of free offerings to provide anti-virus, email scanning, ad-blocking etc. I've got the full AVG Internet Security and am happy with it, but the latest versions of others such as Norton also rate well. (Norton used to be terrible for using up processor resource, but the latest version of its Internet Security package has resolved that.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footy68 Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 I've just put the latest version on my lappy and don't have any speed issues. When I first bought the lappy I tried to put it on then (about 18 months ago), it ran slower than a dead snail. I used comodo for a while, but am now back at AVG and all seems well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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