2006-10-18 06:00:44 · 9 answers · asked by Pravesh 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Free Anti-Virus Programs
AVG by Grisoft has a free for personal use Anti-Virus product available at: http://free.grisoft.com
Avast Antivirus, also for non-commercial use. The ability to turn off unneeded active protection is quite nice. It is available at: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Avira AntiVir Personal Edition is also available for download at http://www.free-av.com . You will probably find the daily pop up ad it opens when doing an update a bit irritating.
The above products include active background scanning modules!
Bitdefender has an excellent scanner and removal tool but does not have any active background protection in the free version. I often use it to suplement the above products as you do not need to worry about background agents conflicting. It is available at: http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html
2006-10-18 06:02:40 · answer #1 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try AVG Free from Grisoft.
The direct link to download: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5
I am using AVG from the last 6 years and have had great experience with it. It does a simple job (only virus detection and cleaning) and does it very well. Its low on memory requirements and works well on low-end PCs too. The daily updates are hardly a few (typically less than 30KB) in size. A weeks update can become atmost 1MB in size (compare to 15MB download for Norton Corporate Edition).
2006-10-18 13:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by reguser2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free Anti-virus:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.free-av.com/
http://www.trendmicro.com/hc_intro/default.asp
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Other Anti-virus help:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/
http://www.cert.org/other_sources/viruses.html
Free Online Virus Checks:
http://onlinescan.avast.com/
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
2006-10-18 13:02:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norton Anti-Virus is one of the best. It may cost money. If you have windows xp get all the new downloads they have virus protection. Or better yet go to download.com and search there. Yeah that is the best solution.
2006-10-18 13:06:10 · answer #4 · answered by DracoGinny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sometimes use www.commandondemand.com it is a free virus scan and will tell you if you have any infections and where the virus i slocated, but you have to pay for them to be deleted by the company. I can clean my own viruses so I don't need the program to do it for me. That way I stay virus free, for free.
2006-10-18 13:05:30 · answer #5 · answered by free_indeed2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest NOD32. You can find more at http://www.eset.com/
It is small, light weight and has the highest consistent detection rate of all the applications.
This one will not bog down your system, unlike many of the other behemoths.
2006-10-18 14:09:20 · answer #6 · answered by Pangit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spybot, ad-aware, sophos antivirus, Norton antivirus, and windows defender.
2006-10-18 13:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a site... http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic3616.html
2006-10-18 13:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by acklan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
zonealarm anti virus
2006-10-18 13:03:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋