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Which FREE Antivirus Software?

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Anti-virus-checker eh? it checks for antiviruses? ;)

kidding,

housecall is absolutly rubbish for a proper user if you ask me, i mean it only works on demand, so you have no realtime safety.

its good for one-off checks if your av is inaccessible.

-edited out- i didnt notice the word FREE

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zigzagcore

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Kaspersky Anti-Virus Persional Edition i think

Realtime protecting ability and convenient online auto-upgrading add points

when mention to efficency, it's just a cup hog, (freeze my system for one or two nimutes when launching at startup) too horrible... :no:

anyway, that's a not bad choice for the poor just like me:devil:

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TBH, I've only really used AVG free edition as far as the free AV tools go, but in the past 2 years or so, I am yet to have a problem with it.  Now running version 7 without a hitch.

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I tend to agree with you and Fry, no problems with it either. And as far as I know I never had a virus. :unsure:

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migo

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I wouldn't touch AVG, it's the first program I used, it caught some viruses, but it couldn't remove all the ones that it found (why a program could find and identify a virus and not remove it I do not know, but it's a mark against AVG) and it didn't find all the viruses on my system. There is absolutely no question that there are better programs than AVG, both free and commercial. For starters AVG doesn't have resident protection, the absence of which is a serious flaw for an Anti-Virus program.

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I wouldn't touch AVG, it's the first program I used, it caught some viruses, but it couldn't remove all the ones that it found (why a program could find and identify a virus and not remove it I do not know, but it's a mark against AVG) and it didn't find all the viruses on my system. There is absolutely no question that there are better programs than AVG, both free and commercial. For starters AVG doesn't have resident protection, the absence of which is a serious flaw for an Anti-Virus program.

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Sometimes, you have to see the name of the file and mainly the extension and have to delete them by YOURSELF.

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DMilner

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...For starters AVG doesn't have resident protection, the absence of which is a serious flaw for an Anti-Virus program.

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AVG doesn't have residen protection? I think that you're mistaken. AVG Free has the AVG Resident Shield component which is installed with every installation of AVG Free.

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AVG doesn't have residen protection?? I think that you're mistaken.? AVG Free has the AVG Resident Shield component which is installed with every installation of AVG Free.

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AVG definitely does have resident protection. The poster must be thinking of another free virus scanner.

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Bhav

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One other free one I've recently been made aware of:

http://www.clamwin.com/

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i know someone who used clamwin. a full system scan took 12 hours. i would never wait that long for a ful system scan...it's ridiculous. still in beta though, and it's open source, which is a plus.

i would say avg. has don't the job for me for the past few months.

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