Best Free Anti-Virus?

redux

Avira's paid-for Premium version just won an award as the best product of 2008 on the AV comparatives review site

Ok, that doesn't necessarily imply their free version is the best amongst the free ones. But Premium is available free for 3 months, as mentioned on another thread here

roadster1

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Im sure if you used PCTOOLs firewall with AVIRA anti virus, it would run fine

No it didn't.

Outlook and Word 2007 both seem to be very resource hungry and with that configuration it was taking about 5 seconds for an email to open.

I'm still not sure if there isn't something wrong with my PC http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1316751 but hopefully the memory will sort it out.

Nikkisun

Ok - have downloaded and installed Avast but now what??

I have no icon in my tool bar to say it's running, windows says it's switched off (and clicking turn it on makes no difference).

When I click on the Avast icon it does a memory test and says continuing but then does nothing!

What am I doing wrong?

aliEnRIK

Roadster ~ Avira doesnt even have anything to do with emails!

I remember that post yeah

Try SUPERANTI SPYWARE
http://www.download.com/SUPERAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html
(Doctor is abssolute junk in the limits it has in the free version)

thomas01155

C.I.S is my favorite at the moment. Was using antivir a few works ago with Comodo Firewall but i decided to change to Comodo anti virus as well. It seems to be alot faster loading and opening applications.

Marty_J

aliEnRIK wrote: »

The 3 main ones are AVG, AVAST and AVIRA
Avast is the overall best. AVIRA good if you have a slow computer

Avita AntiVir seems to have better detection rates than Avast. I saw one test where Avira even beat NOD32 by quite a significant margin.

I would say if email scanning isn't important (perhaps you only use webmail), Avira AntiVir would be the way to go.

aliEnRIK

Nikkisun wrote: »

Ok - have downloaded and installed Avast but now what??

I have no icon in my tool bar to say it's running, windows says it's switched off (and clicking turn it on makes no difference).

When I click on the Avast icon it does a memory test and says continuing but then does nothing!

What am I doing wrong?

You need to register it
http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

Avita AntiVir seems to have better detection rates than Avast. I saw one test where Avira even beat NOD32 by quite a significant margin.

I would say if email scanning isn't important (perhaps you only use webmail), Avira AntiVir would be the way to go.

That was with FULL avira package
The free one doesnt include spyware updates

Nikkisun

Cheers - am all sorted now - had already registered but needed to do another reboot - you'd think they'd tell you that!!

ebsay2000

I'm using pc tools anti virus..........no problems so far..........

What do you think of it??