I currently use Avast, but I've heard that AV is the best free antivirus and internet security software.
And what is the best free software to scan, detect and remove adware, malware, spyware, etc?
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Which is the best free antivirus between: McAfee, AntiVir, Avast, AVG or Norton?
April 11th, 2008 · 31 Comments
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Tags: Email Spam Uninstall spyware Security Software Trend Micro Registry Cleaner Pc Tools Norton Nod32 Kaspersky Internet Security Hacked Firewall Computer Security Avg Avast Antivirus Ad Aware Monitoring Software Encryption Backup
31 responses so far ↓
1 emad // Apr 11, 2008
Bit Defender
Download your favorate anti virus free…..
http://www.emadbd.com
2 Nobody // Apr 11, 2008
kaspersky is the best for me,,,,,,mix it up with some anti-spyware ang anti adware……
3 dula_14stars // Apr 11, 2008
AVG
I have a AVG free edition n it is good.
4 alf_hart2000 // Apr 11, 2008
avast! antivirus Home Edition, anti-spyware & anti-rootkit for Windows
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
5 ElementalDoom // Apr 11, 2008
I would recommend norton antivirus…coz it can remove a lot of viruses and worms…BUT it can slow down your computer be sure to have at least 1.5GB-2GB of RAM….If you cannot affort it just download AVG antivirus..
Best of Luck!
6 Lolita Lempicka // Apr 11, 2008
for maximum security..try these combination
SuperAntiSpyware
AVG
Ccleaner
McAfee SiteAdvisor
Ad-Aware
7 OSUcarrie81 // Apr 11, 2008
My PC Guru set me up with Mcafee, wich I LOVE!! I also use spybot search and destroy, and also adaware. Between the three of them they really saved my butt a week ago. They are free and very user friendly.
8 eric k // Apr 11, 2008
avast is better than avg in my opinion.avg is good but avast is better when it comes to free ware.they both offer paid upgrades as well.i used to have avg and switched to avast.never looked back.if you are talking about malware thats a differant story.avast'avg'ect are anti-virus.anti-spyware is a differant animal.norton isnt free and its a rescource pig and sucks.many people recomend ad-aware 2007 free.i dont.this program isnt near as good as it used to be.best anti-spy?paid would be spyware doctor.free? i like spyware terminator.there are others that are free.a web search will give you a ton of choices
9 - D.D.M - // Apr 11, 2008
McAfee if you want to spend money
AVG if you don't
What ever you do don't get Norton read at this website what Norton did to my PC:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvX3lCNQcPdAAeiHhES5PKwhBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20080408142202AAs023K&show=7#profile-info-XHocY1j7aa
This is what I wrote about Norton:
"Norton just sit on your taskbar making you think it's doing something by flashing and annoying you with pop-ups saying "do you want to do this?" and "do you want to do that?". Norton have been scammed by the programmers since there have been traces of Norton accessing and copying peoples files, if anything i say norton is a virus itself since when i got rid of it on my pc's they all got faster and they never crash my modem is not being used and hogged up by files being sent across the web and I found myself that norton had placed files on my hard drive which had ended up re-installing itself and giving me more pop-ups saying "new virus found called Norton 360.exe" and "new virus found called McAfee Security center" the stupid thing actually found a virus; itself. And a few years ago Norton let my pc crash instead of stopping a virus made from itself!!! I e-mailed them and guess what 3 years no reply!"
10 KingCobra // Apr 11, 2008
These ALL work for me………
FREE !!!!
Computer Maintenance
Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscare…
CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Spybot S&D
>http://www.safer-networking.org/en/>…
Ad Aware 2007
http://www.lavasoft.com
Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic….
http://www.free-av.com/
I've been using them all for over a year now.
They are all compatible with each other and Windows XP and Vista as well as older versions of Windows.
You will have a trouble free, clean, green, mean machine.
11 Triple S // Apr 11, 2008
use Zonelabs best protectn including 3types anti virus/spyware and firewall
12 Know No // Apr 11, 2008
AVG
McAfee and Norton really really suck (up resources)
Avast misses alot
AntiVir is useful sometimes
To your last question: the is NOT ONE good product that covers all of that.
you need to do some research on both these concepts:
HIPS: host-based intrusion-prevention system
IDS: Intrusion Detection System
Please, please don't run windows in an administrator's context!!
13 AsterNexar // Apr 11, 2008
Get Avast its the best
14 Mini Me // Apr 11, 2008
Anti-Virus:
AVG
Spyware/Adware removal:
SUPERAntispyware
Ad-Aware 2007 Free
General cleanup remove cookies and more:
CCleaner
Firewall:
Pc Tools Firewall Plus
Deframenter:
Auslogics Disk Defrag
All free.
Available @ http://internetsecurityandmaintenance.blogspot.com/
15 himanshu // May 6, 2008
If you want free, its avast or AVG. If you can spend some money, try Sophos. Its best so far. It doesnt slow down your PC too. all threats will be detected very fast.
Sophos Anti Rootkit is free. you must run this. Threat Fire is now as a addon on antivirus products. ITs gooud to have this also. This is free download.
16 StevenC // Jul 2, 2008
I’m using Eset NOD32 Antivirus and Agnitum Outpost Firewall v4 (as it uses memory ressources than v2008) together. I would say that I have maximum protection without slowing down my computer.
However they aren’t free.
I am totally satisfied.
17 drjeff // Jul 5, 2008
You shouldn’t call Norton Antivirus scammers or hackers. That’s just silly, probably you got a nasty trojan that took over your norton. I’ve seen it happen, the newer norton I’d like to think is stronger then that, but who knows? I don’t recommend Norton, but they’re certainly not dangerous. I use symantec website all the time to research certain viruses and use their helpful removal tools as needed.
18 Antivir is best // Jul 17, 2008
I use Antivir premium. In a recent test of all antivirus software, Antivir was ranked 7th best in the world with 97.13 % score.
http://virus.gr/portal/en/content/2008-06%2C-1-21-june
AVG was ranked 11 with 94.87% score, Avast was ranked 13th with 93.78%, Mcafee was ranked 21 with 86.39% score and Norton was ranked 23 with 83.34%
19 KingCobra (april, 11, 2008) // Sep 27, 2008
I use Avast (paid Type), spybot Search Destroy, ThreatFire, and StopZilla. It seems to work for me.
Louie M
sept. 27,2008
20 me // Jan 1, 2009
well i had this avast av and i think it worked awesome but i just made the stupidity to uninstall it to try mcafee, and i say stupidity cause i recently researched and it seems for most of all that it sucks and its way too expensive, so i will have to wait an entire year to change back to avast or avg i dont know they are both good i think (never used avg actually, I just read it was ok) in few words im screwed
21 very good at computers // Aug 8, 2009
now the best is avg and eset the ok antivirus is kaspersky the worst is norton mcafee trend mirco
and avast i recommed avg or eset
22 very good at computer // Aug 8, 2009
hi again the worst also is spybot search and destory and the rest of antivirus and the ok one is windows one care
23 very good at computers // Aug 8, 2009
now the best is avg and eset the ok antivirus is kaspersky the worst is norton mcafee trend mirco
and avast i recommed avg or eset and like i said windows one care is ok and spybot search and destory is the worst
24 Lalit Malla // Aug 21, 2009
Previously, I was also using Mcafee Antivirus but I found some problem on it. It is not being updated by superdate file. So, curently I am using Avast Home edition. I guess it is working awesome after entering free license key from net.
25 Anonymous // Sep 5, 2009
quick heal is best try it
26 will // Oct 5, 2009
i had vista and it for some reason would not start up after about a month after i got the pc so i had to reformat it using an old copy of xp i had from 2002 . it has no sp1 or sp2 . already i had to reformat it 4 times . i have dial up and am curious if i got attacked by malware or some s**t like that .i made it as far as sp1 and it simply would not start up . i have managed to almost get sp1 installed again 4 hours to go. any major security updates or warnings i should know about
27 will // Oct 5, 2009
one thing i do know for sure is ie is the worst possible web browser u can use . i use eather opera or my #1 choice (firefox) another good mozilla firefox add on u should look into is called (WOT) or web of trust . it is similar to mcafee site advisary . i also use ad block plus .
28 will // Oct 5, 2009
well i gotta say that any av software is better than none cause i reformatted to a old xp version and had 2 reformat it 4 times in a week . must be some hairy carrie of a mother fuc*en bad a*s virus out there or some fuc**n sh*t like that
29 will // Oct 5, 2009
gotta say . i dont see whats so good about avira . i used to have it and it has to be like the most most most un user friendly piece of crap made . sure it has good virus definitions ,but…. how thaa hell do u delete them without having to go through a bit*h of a time trying to figure it out
30 will // Oct 5, 2009
i was told by a professionall to get something called the norton ghost . its not a antivirus but a automatic backup tool . not exactly sure how it works but i do know it dont slow ur computer down at all nor does it have any stupid trojans it gives u like the old crappie beta style norton av. its strictly a backup tool u can have it set on auto backup . then if u have a prob u can just load ur bckup
31 lg // Nov 7, 2009
i tried a lot of diff setups norton, macfee ,avg,spybot,antivir,comodo,avast and a few more.the setup that is working best for me is avast,threatfire,comodo firewall,wot,cm disk cleaner,revo uninstaller.i tested avast at eicar and spycar worked great,tested firewall at shieldsup very satisfied.
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