reliable free anti virus

Mookfish

I would highly recomend Avast as above. Much better than norton and AVG in my experiance. I tried AVG when my norton subscription ran out and found that it slowed my computer down alot and I found it bad to use.

Grumpysally

Thanks everyone, Ive downloaded the Avast. Goodness knows how her machines not got infected before now.

Donnie

Probably because the McAfee was still working, albeit without the latest definition files.
Make sure that you've downloaded the latest Avast definitions file by, 'right clicking' on the blue 'a' in the right hand corner, clicking on 'updating' and then on 'iAVS update'.
Once completed, run a full system scan.

Lord_Chris

AVG is THE best.. its not a question, its just a fact. and thats not just an opinion :P

AVG is fantastic at quarantining corrupted files which it cannot remove.

personally, ive been using it for 5 years and ive never had any major problems.

Kimberley

Zone Alarm is pretty good as well, it only lets certain things through if you want them.

Donnie

Lord_Chris wrote:

AVG is THE best.. its not a question, its just a fact. and thats not just an opinion :P

AVG is fantastic at quarantining corrupted files which it cannot remove.

personally, ive been using it for 5 years and ive never had any major problems.

Have you just had a lunchtime drink or five?

I used to have AVG 6. If it found a virus, it wouldn't necessarily remove it. That's if it found it. Updates were a problem too.
I installed Avast. It's saved my computer at least a couple of times. Once, downloading from the supposedly secure servers of Cnet or the like, it alerted me to a virus and removed it. Not a squeak from AVG.

The latest version, AVG 7, may have brought in improvements to equal Avast, as they both scored 100% in detecting viruses 'in the wild'.

Writing statements such as you did may fool people into taking you seriously.

The one thing I did like about AVG 6 was the boot-up scanner.

nickmack

Lord_Chris wrote:

AVG is THE best.. its not a question, its just a fact. and thats not just an opinion :P

Reminds of an episode of BrassEye:

"That's a scientific fact; there's no actual evidence for it, but it's a fact"

f1charlie

Don't know about how reliable it is (I had one virus detected in the last year of using it) but Computer Associates eTrust is free for a year:

http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/

If they're still doing it in a year's time you should be able to renew it a for another free year

Charlie

Lord_Chris

i've seen bad things about e-trusts antivirus, but a friend of mine has it and says its good.

AVG 6 was fine... but 7 is definetly much better. fool people into taking me seriously? hmm, and that matters why? AVG is great, why you think so many people use it, why you think it gets great reviews, and why on here do you think it comes up everytime someone asks about which antivirus.

common sense never goes amiss.

lunchtime drink.. i wish.

nickmack.. brasseye? bit before my time mate lol.

garcia

Lord_Chris wrote:

nickmack.. brasseye? bit before my time mate lol.

By my reckoning that makes you 9 years old or thereabouts.

Hang on a minute - now suddenly everything is clear.
Doh!