best free antivirus

Just use avast, it might only pick up 705 on tests but it's never let anything through here. 9I do online scans every know and then). It's simple and unobtrusive.

As long as your simple you don't need to pay for antivirus. People who pay are either protecting valuable information or are stupid :p
 
Admiral Huddy said:
That was top of the freebies. :D I can't remember which product won.. Wasn't one I heard of. Was in PC Pro about August time iirc.

edit - Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7
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I saw that article.

Just looked at the article - September 2007 Issue 155

Results

Kapersky - 98%
F-Secure - 93%
AntiVir - 92% - FREE
Bullguard - 86%
AVG - 83% - FREE
ZoneAlarm AntiVirus - 81%
McAfee VirusScan - 78%
TrendMicro PC-cillin 2007 - 78%
NOD32 - 77%
Avast 4 - 70% - FREE
Norton AntiVirus 2007 - 68%
MS Windows Live OneCare - 66%
Panda AntiVirus - 60%
 
I run spybot day to day, but once in a while run hitman pro it installs piratically every good scanner going and runs them all after it's done i uninstall everything again.Having anti virus permanently on ones pc is a royal pain imo.
 
Kaspersky all the way. If you cant be bothered to pay a £15 a year for a good AV then dony cry when you get infected by something the free scanners wont pick up.

At about a pound a month for kaspersky you would be mad not to really.
 
Avast is as slow as heck. 3 hours for a thorough scan and that only covers 68gig worth of files. I know it's free but what would you use on a 1tbyte drive? I have previously known Nod 32 to be a lot faster and less obtrusive when it is updating-but as yo say, it is not free.
 
ethan said:
Avast is as slow as heck. 3 hours for a thorough scan and that only covers 68gig worth of files. I know it's free but what would you use on a 1tbyte drive? I have previously known Nod 32 to be a lot faster and less obtrusive when it is updating-but as yo say, it is not free.
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Takes my PC under 2 hours to scan over 200GB with Avast,you must have a slow PC.
 
I use ClamWin.

No real-time or on-access scanner, so no resource hit, yet I can right click and scan any file or folder that I want. Updates hourly.

No good for the average Norton-type user, but for what I want, it's perfect.
 
malc30 said:
Let us know how you get on then Zildjian.
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Wow I don't believe this.......

I just installed AntiVir and I am doing a scan right now. It has already found 2 trojans... :eek::eek::eek:
They are both on my external hard drive. NOD32 and AVG antiviruses BOTH missed these trojans.

It also has 2 warnings but I can't see them at the moment because it is still scanning.

So far I am VERY impressed with this antivirus. It is very light on resources (I think it is even more light than NOD32), updates are fine and it has a nice GUI and I am extremely impressed with the detection rates... like I said it has so far detected 2 trojans that both NOD32 and AVG have missed.
 
The scan completed and it found 3 trojans overall. They were all quarantined then deleted. I just did a rescan and my external HDD is now clean.
They were located in my brothers folder in my external HDD.
He is using AVG on his computer which obviously hasn't picked them up, so when he comes in from work later I am going to do a full system scan using AVG, then I will replace AVG with AntiVir on his PC and see what it finds. :)
 
currently useing Antivir coz i seemed to have had a couple of viruses recently with Nod32, altho i have used Nod32 for over 2 years with no problems.
Antivir is only using 8mb ram which i thought is pretty good.
 
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