Best free antivirus?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I am having good experiences with Avast these days.

[pezzonovante]

Microsoft Security Essentials by a long way.

[Explosification]

Comodo AntiVirus

[e-berlin.org]

Comodo Internet Security x64

[TCA]

MSE AVG is nothing but bloatware.

[avpblogs]

AVG Free edition works fine with me combined with applying regularly Windows updates.

[Heather]

MSE

[xendrome]

MSE or AVG Free.

Fixed for you, we'll even up later :rofl:

[alpha2beta]

Avast 5 in combo with Malwarebytes, About the best your going to get. Even for paid solutions.

[neudera]

My vote goes to Microsoft Security Essentials.

[Alan-]

Avast, works like a charm.

[Archstroke]

Avast

[tablet_user]

I dont use AVs (never get viruses so stopped using one). but on pcs i repair i put MSE on them.

[yardmanflex]

MSE

I even uninstall Norton from the PC's we sold at work and installed MSE.

[Beyond Godlike]

Both AVG and Avast and both put out nasty signatures that caused damage to people's OS's, AVG on multiple occasions. AVG has crap detection to.

Avira and MSE are my recommendations. MSE seems to be the best overall though and makes me wonder why anyone pays for AV.

[Carbon Fiber]

MSE

but install and run the Malwarebytes free edition as well, to catch the things MSE misses.

Same as I do :)

[Sarm]

Why bother with free ones when the best is so cheap ? (?5 at most you should be paying per year)

I use Kaspersky Internet Security, has a firewall and everything else which is more important these days, ?3 a licence.

I've bought 20 copies recently for friends & family.

[Kronir]

I've been using Avast Free for years now and am happy with it; Avast 6 seems pretty solid. I've used MSE a couple of times before and it is pretty good as well. I don't think you can go wrong with either one, particularly paired with Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. :)

[syobon999]

Avira, I doubt anyone can prove anything free is better at detection than Avira...

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Microsoft Security Essentials

[grep]

tables

[M V E]

Microsoft Security Essentials

[soldier1st]

MSE or avast.

[kachimasu]

Avast 6

[+Warwagon MVC]

AVG is the best free antivirus, it has been very useful over past a few years.

including but not limited to, deleting core system files and preventing thousands of computers from starting up.