Can anyone recommend free antivirus software.

Terrysdelight

Hi

I'm looking for a totally free antivirus - i.e. no free trials and then start being charged.

Can anyone recommend?

Many thanks
Terri

superjaggybunnet

Does your ISP not offer free protection?

I am with VirginMedia and they offer their PCGuard free to Broadband customers.

f1charlie

But superjaggybunnet, aren't you having problems with it?

Try Avast.

But also try searching the forum, as this gets asked almost every day.

isofa

New version of AVG Free is awful in my experience, v7.5 is much faster and less of a resource hog than v8. Plenty of threads discussing it in this forum.

The_JinJ

f1charlie wrote: »

But superjaggybunnet, aren't you having problems with it?

Try Avast.

But also try searching the forum, as this gets asked almost every day.

Another vote for Avast - always done well for me

Trembling_Turnip

I treid Avast and Avira recently after having problems with new AVG.

Avira kept failing to connect to its update server and Avast made my PC really unstable, seemed to hog a lot of memory even after changing a lot of the scan options.

I've now gone back to AVG but disabled the search shield and it seems a bit better.

I guess try any of these and see which one works best for you (they are all free)

superjaggybunnet

I am having problems with it but that doesn't mean that everyone else would as well, does it? :eek:

Terrysdelight

superjaggybunnet wrote: »

Does your ISP not offer free protection?

I am with VirginMedia and they offer their PCGuard free to Broadband customers.

Hi, I've got McFee on my PC that comes with the broadband but apparantly you only get it on one product, so I can't use it on my laptop.

Thanks though.

f1charlie

superjaggybunnet wrote: »

I am having problems with it but that doesn't mean that everyone else would as well, does it? :eek:

No, but I know if I had a problem with something which I couldn't find a solution for I'd be cursing it and not recommending it even if it was only me that had the problem

Terrysdelight

f1charlie wrote: »

But superjaggybunnet, aren't you having problems with it?

Try Avast.

But also try searching the forum, as this gets asked almost every day.

Thanks downloading now. I did try searching the forum, must have done something wrong because it didn't bring me back anything.

espresso

Terrysdelight wrote: »

I did try searching the forum, must have done something wrong because it didn't bring me back anything.

Did you not see a link to this article here at the top of the page?