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virus protection

chnelomi
chnelomi Posts: 462 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
hi all just after advice as to what you's consider the leading free virus protection software. My nephew asked me to sort something on his laptop and i just switched it on and he has no protection what so ever. have done ccleaner and malwarebytes but don't have a clue for virus.

Thanks all
slowly going nuts at the world:T

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  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    There are 3 main ones.
    AVG, AVIRA and AVAST
    AVG is the slowest and appears to cause the most problems as well as having the worst updates
    AVIRA is what I use and has by far the best definition updates but no email scanner
    AVAST is slower than AVIRA and not as good virus updates but has an email scanner
    :idea:
  • crampo_2
    crampo_2 Posts: 428 Forumite
    Free: AVIRA(free edition)
    Pay about £25: Kaspersky Internet Security
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  • chnelomi
    chnelomi Posts: 462 Forumite
    Thank you to both of you's think i'll go for AVIRA he mostly uses laptop for games so i think speed would be best suited. will look into email scanners just to be safe though.
    Cheers for quick reply's.
    slowly going nuts at the world:T
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    No need to. If theres an email attachment (The only way to get something through an email) that looks dodgy, then simply scan it from the desktop
    :idea:
  • II_D2_II
    II_D2_II Posts: 310 Forumite
    yes i reccomend AVIRA aswell.
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