free antivirus ?

sablade

whats the best free antivirus prog pls and link to download

driver8_2

avast is supposed to be the best (better than AVG).

get it here - http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html

you get all the usual virus updates, as with Norton.

Been using for a year now, problem-free.

And don't forget your firewall - best one being Kerio (http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html ) although ZoneAlarm might be easier for novice users (http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?lid=zaskulist_download)

Also, monthly runs of updated Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)
and Adaware (http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/) are recommended.

Good luck !

sablade

thanks driver8 u r a star!!!!!

Pink.

I agree with driver,

Avast is better than AVG, but I run both on my pc at the same time and sometimes one notices things the other doesn't.

You can get the free edition of AVG here:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

An excellent virus scanner.......you have to log on and ask them to perform a scan......is Panda active-scan:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm

I hope this helps.

Pink

Fran

Have you looked at THIS THREAD?

Noobie_2

This is probably on Fran's list (but it might have dropped off the bottom):

"anyone know a good free anti virus scan/remover tool?"

http://forum.moneysavingexpert.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Tech;action=display;num=1100729734

You might want to follow it down to the post from Toxteth O'Grady re AVG, Avast and NOD32 (although NOD32 isn't a freebie)

PS  I think the tests referred to in TOGs post are pretty stringent, so a fail doesn't mean the product isn't any good at all - if you haven't got an AV at the mo., either AVG or Avast will undoubtedly be better than none.

peter_the_piper

Thanks driver 8,
Because of your comments about Avast I added it to my comp. as well as Nortons. On the first scan it found Beagle virus. At least the Nortons removal tool worked(I hope)

Noobie_2

Oh dear - are we now getting to the stage where we need more than one AV (not both running at same time?) as well as more than one anti-adware/anti-spyware??

I'm happy with NOD32 - but once in a while I'll run an on-line scan to confirm (thanks for the tip, blinky )