best free anti-virus software?

skyrocket

I know nothing about computers but we need anti-virus spyware software (does that make sense?)
Which is the best one? I know there are some that are free are they any good?
Sky x

¨°º_LightWave_º°¨

The most popular of the free antiviruses would be the - AVG Free edition
...and is very well rated...
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

also regarding spyware ...Ad-Aware Personal is the free version of this software and is also pretty good..... *remember to scan you're hard drive with these softwares periodically to get rid of any nasties...and keep them updated.
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/


...but if you're web browser is FireFox (which it should be and is also free) ...you'll hardly need to use you're spyware software because FireFox hardly lets any in ...loading/browsing web pages with firefox is also alot faster than Internet Explorer! ....if thats what you're using :rolleyes:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/


Hope that helps...
¨¨°Seeya!

BargainHunterCat

Agreed, AVG free edition is excellent :j

Browntoa

this is a double posted

other thread started by the same person

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=115482

Tyler_Durden_UK

I always used to use AVG but have recently switched to avast after AVG failed to pick up a rather nasty trojan that had infected my PC

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I always use AVG for general protection, but once a week I run trend micro house call. You do not install this free software, it's a tool which has proven to me to be highly effective. Trend micro also offer a free spyware scan.

link is http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Browntoa

Browntoa wrote:

this is a double posted

other thread started by the same person

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=115482

as before, this is a double post...

¨°º_LightWave_º°¨

I always used to use AVG but have recently switched to avast after AVG failed to pick up a rather nasty trojan that had infected my PC

Yeah ...that did happen with me once ...seemed to be able to detect the little !!!!!! but not remove it :rolleyes: ..but I mosty only had problems with the Isbar trojan.

Anyway I picked AVG at the time because of its record at catching the majority, and also the fact that it is lightish on resources, whereas when I installed Avast, my pc became quite sluggish.

I'm now currently using neither of them tho... hehehe

Have Nod32 installed - top notch...but not free.
http://www.nod32uk.com/home/home.htm

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