what is a good free anti virus software?

Question

i had one before that was microsoft that had a lil bullseye i got rid of it and i am trying to re find it does anyone know link

p.s. is adware anti viral ?

Answer 1

The bulls eye was Microsoft antispyware, now replaced with defender. It was not antiviral but checked for spyware and adaware type problems. Read the details below, and this may help you. AVG is excellent and free.

Since the questions you have asked is similar to a lot that appear on answers, I have prepared this to aid you. Topics covered are: Anti virus, Anti spyware, Browsers, e-mail, Word processors, Database, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Photo manipulations. All programmes described are free to use, some even for commercial use.

Antiviral.
AVG free. Excellent protection available from: http://www.Grisoft.com

Don't use two antiviral products together as they may be incompatible. If your Antiviral trial has run out, then remove product from your computer and get the AVG installed.

Antispyware
Essential products are: Adaware SE from: http://www.lavasoft.com
Spybot SD from: Download.com or similar, Tucows etc
Spywareblaster “ “ “ “
Windows Defender - from Microsoft downloads.

Office Applications
Open Office has an extremely good free to use and distribute product at http://www.openoffice.org

It contains programmes fully functional in Word-processing, Database, Spreadsheets, Drawing and Presentation. It looks and feels like Microsoft Office and can even make PDF's

Photo-manipulations
For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software or Picasso.

For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://gimp.org

Browsers and E-mail programmes.
Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme, Thunderbird is very good. Go to:

http://www.mozilla.com/products/

Fun and helpful programmes
Have a look at Calendar Magic, it has lots of Scientific, Geometry, Factor and Expression calculators as well as Global distances, Sun and Moon Data, a Pregnancy Calculator, Time Data and Alarm clocks as well as an extremely comprehensive range of Calendars in about 27 different formats from Afghanistan to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Hindu.

C Cleaner.http://www.ccleaner.com/
This will tell you a lot about what is on your computer, such as running programmes,cookies, History, settings etc. and will help you clean up and remove unwanted items. Be careful how you use it as it is a very powerful programme and you should read the help index before you do anything with it.

Hope this information is of help to you and others.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

AVG
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10342876.html

Answer 4

Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Answer 5

AVG Free Edition and Windows Defender

Answer 6

Forget Microsoft. Get Symantec. It's great. You'll have to pay $50 for the software the 1st time, but you can then get free upgrades and can download virus removal softwares with intructions even if your PC does get affected.

Answer 7

You may go to www.download.com for AVG free edition anti-virus software or avast free virus software. It is quite good as it has the basic needs like virus scanning, email scanning and most important it's free!

Answer 8

avg i found is okay, but not great. www.downloads.com might have some, those are legal trials and free-ware. Another thing is to look in your city's ads on Sunday in the newspaper. Often people put them on sale. I know Fry's in my city had it for $19.99-mail in rebate and it was like 6 bucks. Quite a bargain. It was Norton.

Answer 9

Ad-aware

Answer 10

You cant go wrong with AVG Free. You can download it from Grisoft here:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

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