{"id":983,"date":"2006-02-27T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/27\/download-best-free-antivirus-softwares\/"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T08:21:02","slug":"download-best-free-antivirus-softwares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/download-best-free-antivirus-softwares\/","title":{"rendered":"Download Best Free Antivirus Softwares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My geek friend scared by the recent outbreaks of Kamasutra virus and Leap-A virus gave me a call that his <strong>Norton Antivirus subscription has expired<\/strong> and he can no longer update virus definitions via Live Update. And he did not want to pay for expensive antivirus subscriptions yearly.<\/p>\n<p>There are several excellent paid professional antivirus software like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/\">Norton Antivirus<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/\">McAfee<\/a>, but they are expensive software and require yearly subscription fees for regular antivirus updates. So I went looking for <strong>free antivirus softwares<\/strong> and was surprised to see the range available.<\/p>\n<h3>Free antivirus software<\/h3>\n<p>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 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\/eng\/avast_4_home.html\">Avast Home Edition<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n<p>Other popular security solutions are <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.free-av.com\/\">AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic<\/a> (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)<\/p>\n<p>Long back, PCWorld has compared these free antivirus protection software. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webhostingtalk.com\/showthread.php?t=480786\">WebHostingTalk<\/a>  shows that        AVG Free Edition is the best (though the voter base is small).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My geek friend scared by the recent outbreaks of Kamasutra virus and Leap-A virus gave me a call that his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}