Definitive Best *Free* Antivirus 2013

[damindor]

what is a good free anti virus?

[Astra.Xtreme]

MSE:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/security-essentials-download

[damindor]

thank you.I see it has a low price of free LOL

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

free and integrated into Windows, if you have windows 8 you already have it though.

[tuckeratlarge]

AVG

[f0rk_b0mb]

MSE

[Detection]

Avast or Avira, are my preferred free AVs

[+Warwagon MVC]

Avast is my personal fav. Never been much of a fan of MSE or AVG.

[Crisp]

+1 for MSE :)

Free, plus easily updates at same time during Windows update.

[MikeChipshop Member]

MSE, unless you're running Win8 in which case it's already there.

[Xoligy]

OP is on XP, he should of mentioned this.

[Marshall Veteran]

It's a new year, and a new poll for Definitive Best Antivirus. The 2012 thread can be found here.

This is a poll for best Free antivirus, there is a separate thread for paid antiviruses here.

Any questions or software that I've missed, please post here and I will update the thread.

[medhunter]

I can't see avira....can you?

[Marshall Veteran]

I can't see avira....can you?

Updated Poll

Thanks!

[LUTZIFER]

I picked MSE of course. Malware Bytes is awesome too, but only really good using PRO version with real-time protection, which I use.

[medhunter]

Updated Poll

Thanks!

voted.....Thanks for adding.

I hope I am not the only vote, though

[remixedcat]

MSE+Condom

[John S. Veteran]

threads merged

[Athlonite]

MSE it's light on resources and good on stopping/cleaning crap there are better paid anti virus programs but for free you can't go past MSE

[migo]

I don't see Ad-Aware Free on the list

[medhunter]

Thank God, someone else voted for avira

My Dell Netbook is happy now

[Luc2k]

I'm surprised MSE leads by such a margin considering the thrashing it received a month or so ago.

[sarahmsarah]

Why didn't you mention Unthreat? It's my favorite, that's why I voted for Other. It's free and easy to use and from my experience it's better than many of the above..

[Marshall Veteran]

I don't see Ad-Aware Free on the list

Why didn't you mention Unthreat? It's my favorite, that's why I voted for Other. It's free and easy to use and from my experience it's better than many of the above..

Both added to poll.

[Jub]

MSE+Condom

While that's certainly one of the safest approaches, the latter can make the process of user interaction quite displeasing, especially in some usage scenarios.

OT: I ditched MSE for NOD32, but if I was to 'go free' again I'd certainly use MSE.

[Sub_Zero_Alchemist]

Avast!