Needy Of A Good Free Virus Scanner

sagaboy2 · 29 Mar 2006 at 07:52

As the title says

Iv been having virus and adware problems after one day.

I am atm using NTL netguard :rolleyes:

it doesnt like my system.

AJUK · 29 Mar 2006 at 08:14

Avast and Ewido (both free) will sort you out.

sagaboy2 · 29 Mar 2006 at 08:47

Thanks Ill try them out when I get back from collage

Sp00n · 29 Mar 2006 at 10:07

I use AVG free edition, saved my behind on a few occasions

bledd · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:23

avast is too high on resources i've found..

nod32 is worth paying for !

Hussman · 30 Mar 2006 at 18:32

Another vote here for AVG

Here's the link

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:06

You can get Norton AV 6 months free by downloading Google tools. You get a lot of things with google tools so just untick the boxes so you don't get them. I can't seem to find the link at the moment. Any help people or aren't Google doing this no more?

EDIT: Sorry, It's not called Google tools it's called Google pack and you get Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition 6 months free and Ad-Aware SE Personal with it if you tick them.

Cuchulain · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:07

G-MAN2004 said:
You can get Norton AV 6 months free by downloading Google tools. You get a lot of things with google tools so just untick the boxes so you don't get them. I can't seem to find the link at the moment. Any help people or aren't Google doing this no more?

Norton? I wouldn't install that on my worst enemies PC.

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:09

Cuchulain said:
Norton? I wouldn't install that on my worst enemies PC.

Why's that then? I can't remember Norton not being very good on my PC.

toxic · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:12

Norton is a resource hogger and slows down enev a fast PC quite noticably. Its also been proved not to be even as good as some free AV at catching viruses!
I use AVG...never had much bother with that

Cuchulain · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:13

G-MAN2004 said:
Why's that then? I can't remember Norton not being very good on my PC.

Because it's a bloated memory hog and more often than not the live scanner element ends up locking people's machines up through taking up 100% of the CPU cycles. 9 out of the 10 PC faults I have to fix have been easily remedied simply by uninstalling it.

G-MAN2004 · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:16

toxic said:
Norton is a resource hogger and slows down enev a fast PC quite noticably. Its also been proved not to be even as good as some free AV at catching viruses!
I use AVG...never had much bother with that

Cuchulain said:
Because it's a bloated memory hog and more often than not the live scanner element ends up locking people's machines up through taking up 100% of the CPU cycles. 9 out of the 10 PC faults I have to fix have been easily remedied simply by uninstalling it.

Hmm. Thanks for that. Never really noticed a slow down but might consider changing it now. What AV would you recommend? AVG?

Cuchulain · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:18

NOD32

aaazza · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:35

Cuchulain said:
Because it's a bloated memory hog and more often than not the live scanner element ends up locking people's machines up through taking up 100% of the CPU cycles. 9 out of the 10 PC faults I have to fix have been easily remedied simply by uninstalling it.

Quoted for truth.

aaazza

bledd · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:26

gman, change to nod32