Download Best Free Antivirus Softwares
February 27th, 2006My geek friend scared by the recent outbreaks of Kamasutra virus and Leap-A virus gave me a call that his Norton Antivirus subscription has expired and he can no longer update virus definitions via Live Update. And he did not want to pay for expensive antivirus subscriptions yearly.
There are several excellent paid professional antivirus software like Norton Antivirus, McAfee, but they are expensive software and require yearly subscription fees for regular antivirus updates. So I went looking for free antivirus softwares and was surprised to see the range available.
Free antivirus software
After reading several reviews by leading security web sites and forums, there seems to be a consensus that the 2 best free antivirus softwares in the market are AVG Anti-virus Free for Windows (a free anti-virus protection tool developed by Grisoft for home use) and the Avast Home Edition (a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use). The limitation with Avast is that it will work for 60 days after installation in demo mode, then you need to re-register every year to obtain a free license key by email that is valid for 1 year.
Other popular security solutions are AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic (for Protection and security against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers) and BitDefender Free Edition (an on-demand virus scanner, useful in a system recovery or forensics role)
Long back, PCWorld has compared these free antivirus protection software. WebHostingTalk shows that AVG Free Edition is the best (though the voter base is small).
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hi we need fast virus scanner
AVG 7.5 detected 3 trojans that Norton missed.
AVG 8 seemed preety effective along with
THREAT FIRE antispyware and COMODO firewall (COMODO
can drive you mad sometimes with all its pop-up
warnings)but all three could not prevent or detect after lots of scans a malware
that caused continuous system crashes.Only AVIRA FREE detected it and isolated it with its high sensitivity ANTIVIR.But AVIRA FREE has a big disadvantage:doesnt offer e-mail scanner.
It’s all going mad.
AVG 8.x follows norton & mcafee by swallowing resorces !
Please suggest a fast @ effective Antivirus software !!!
Thank U !
I have been testing few antivirus..
Avast is good followed by avg & kaspersky..
i will not suggect macfee n nortan as the utilized huge amount of system resources
this the best antivirus software
hi this is my first time i download free antivirus.so i hope it will good.thank you
hy guys,avast seems to do be its dificult to gets the updates,so i think nortion is better
N/A
Avast is better than AVG in detecting viruses…
hi this is my first time i download free antivirus.so i hope it will active and strong
thank you for clean my computer from viruse
please help me out fom viruses
Good Day,
please i want to have a latest avg anti virus ,in other to say away from virus.
Thanks for making me happy
it is very best antivirus
Armenian users (working on fully infected PC’s) prefer
1.Kaspersky
2.Avast
3.AVG
I recommend Avast (if updated), it is very nice. :)
Also, i recommend Kaspersky (if it is the original, not cracked or pirate version)
AVG is good, but it veeeeery slow and has problem with update (invalid update control files) :(
it’s works strongly then others antivirus then i love it
i have been using avast for years…
No problem so far… it’s very good
avg was excellent and reliable free antivirus software……….for all computer using people
for free avg 8 is best and for paid version kaspersky and avir premium both r best.
My AVG still can’t detect viruses than other antivirus program even after i’ve completely up dated every day.
I’ve try to check through with panda scan online, and still there were alot of files infected found.
Why my updated AVG still couldn’t find those viruses??
AVG is not quite good antivir but still i’m using it because it’s free and i’ve let my computer with a viruses unhealed.
Which Anti-Virus(Free)is the best for my Laptop.
Comodo Internet Suite works great on my pc.
I used to use only the Comodo Firewall. I find its OS Firewall very useful for detecting virus activations and other suspicious activities in my computer.
A drawback: sometimes Comodo just doesnt go resident and active anymore. I just uninstall and reinstall the whole thing and it’s good again.
Not bad for a freebie…
How can i get free enterprise edition antivirus software?
I have used all of he above anti-virus. For the begining I suppose AVG,COMODO, AVIRA are all good solutions. But for little advanced usage like constant internet, small resource usage and etc. I would recomend Avast along with PC Tools ThreatFire. Avast uses good detection rates with regular interval updates, acts as a transparent firewallinfront of your browser which blocks many malwaresand virus in first step, rest can be removed during scan and small resource usage while Threatfire almost the same but lages in detection rates, it is only better because it uses behaviour-based detection which is a good step n free security.
So Avast along with PC Tools Threatfire is the best for Home usage but don’t ask it to do all for you and behave like complete professionals, there are others like NOD32, Kaspersky and also ZoneAlarm for that cause.
Hi…………..
from last 1yr i have been using Quick Heal but now im facing problem with QH, thts why now i want to install the best of best package on my PC
Pl suggest the best one.
please sent latest avg anti virus to me. Thanks.
I need to kick out all the Viruses, Worms, and that is sure to be done by AVG
IT is a waste of time.I doesnt get downloaded for hours.
I’ve used many antivirus already. Norton, Mc affe, avg, avira, avast, bitdefender. norton made my pc run slower, others just doesn’t leave your computer 100% protected like avast and avg, but i suggest you people to use the free avast first because i believe that it can better protect your computer than the other free antivirus. but if you still got infected, install and scan your computer with avg as it can sometimes heal or fix the virus that the other antivirus are neglecting. {^^,}
avast antivirus home edition is the best best best in the world
Please i need a good antivirus on my system.