reliable free anti virus

Donnie

Lord_Chris wrote:

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.

Because it is free.

Most people didn't know about Alwil's Avast, especially when AVG6 was around.
So, AVG was the main recommendation when a free Anti-virus program was requested.
I tried AVG6 and found it quite poor, as you needed to upgrade to actually remove viruses.
Avast does a much better job for me.

Apparently AVG7 is better than the previous version.

Either way, it's good to have a choice.

Grumpysally

Donnie wrote:

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.

Boys, boys, calm down, I asked a question got several answers and based on those, made a descision. I didn't expect handbags at dawn over the issue : )
Now shake hands and get back to work.

Browntoa

yes, 2nd that one

play nicely boys !!!

skiddy2k

Doesnt anyone use AntiVir? i'v never used it, but it suppose to have superior detection rates than both, AVG and Avast.
Btw, Avast has much better detection rates than AVG

Donnie

AlisonW wrote:

Boys, boys, calm down, I asked a question got several answers and based on those, made a descision. I didn't expect handbags at dawn over the issue : )
Now shake hands and get back to work.

Nothing strained about my reply. I genuinely thought he had been drinking.
The rest was just factual information.

Work? I retired young.