Good freeware antivirus program?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:45 am

Hi-- since we got Roadrunner and cancelled our subscrition to AOL, they are no longer updating their free McAfee security suite that they formerly provided.
I uninstalled it and installed a free suite from Roadrunner (CA suite)but it has slowed down this computer miserably.
I think Road Runner has a built in firewall, no? I already have anti spam programs, so all I really need is a good antivirus program.
Anyone have any favorite freeware ones?Other advice? I'll need to install it on 3 computers, btw.

MTGuru · Post by **MTGuru** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:32 pm

I use and like Avast Antivirus. It's free, robust, frequent updates, nice interface, and runs on every Windows platform back to Win98. The company is based in the Czech Republic.

http://www.avast.com/

The other very popular free AV program seems to be AVG:

http://www.avg.com/

Post by **Dale** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:21 pm

MTGuru wrote:I use and like Avast Antivirus. It's free, robust, frequent updates, nice interface, and runs on every Windows platform back to Win98. The company is based in the Czech Republic.

http://www.avast.com/

The other very popular free AV program seems to be AVG:

http://www.avg.com/

I use this one, too, with apparently good results.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:35 pm

We use AVG. Does a good job.

ElPollo · Post by **ElPollo** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:07 pm

Had a few problems with avg and other of my security programs hating eachother. Avira AntiVir is a good one too.

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:58 pm

Avast ye scurvy virus!!

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:51 am

I've used avg for years, but the newest version is awful bloaty, and seems
to have more of an impact on my system. I think I'm going to have to try
Avast!

mukade · Post by **mukade** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:58 am

I use Avast, too.
It is stable and does auto-updates regularly.

The only downside is that is makes people talk like 'kin pirates.

Mukade

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:01 pm

Is it true you're not supposed to have more than one anti-virus program? I think I read somewhere that running two would cause conflicts of some kind.

So, if I already use AVG and decide to try Avast, should I remove AVG before running Avast?

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:06 pm

I used to use AVG but when I recently wiped my hard drive I asked around and people told me that Avast uses less resources. I like it so far, except that I think the mnaual scan interface is a little more difficult to use. But in auto mode it's pretty seamless.