My anti virus has expired, and I'm too broke to pay $40 to renew right now. Is there anything good for free until I can pay for Norton again?
2007-01-16 03:23:26 · 15 answers · asked by jrenee_916 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
It is a grave misconception that Norton and McAfee. They are the two oldest anti-viruses out there, so they have become popular over the time. Among the not-free ones, many other anti-viruses like Kaspersky, BitDefender, F-Secure, NOD32 etc. beat both Norton and McAfee hands on in virus and trojan detection. And yes, there are anti-viruses among the free ones that are better than these two!! AOL Active Virus Shield (powered by Kaspersky) and AntiVir Classic Personal have better detection rate than Norton and McAfee. In fact, AntiVir has the best heuristics among all known anti-viruses!! And there are the two most popular ones, AVG and Avast, both of which are as effective as Norton and McAfee. Many people use AVG, because it is the lightest, easiest-to-use and has an execellent trojan horse detection, which infects personal computers more than viruses. If you ask me, I will recommend it to you (I use it, too). But if you want comparatively better protection, then grab any one of the others. I have given the links to all, but you MUST use only one anti-virus at a time:
1.AVG (8.5) (Download this à avg75free_432a904.exe): http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-free
2.Avast (8.5): http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
3.AntiVir (8): http://free-av.com/
4.AOL Active Virus Shield (8.5):http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp
There are some other free anti-viruses like Comodo, ClamWin, Dr.Virus etc. but they are crippled in one way or the other. BitDefender also provides a very good anti-virus for free, but without real-time protection.
2007-01-16 03:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
AVG and Avast are quite good. The best reason to get rid of Norton and McAfee are that both programs are way too bloated and complex and as a result are difficult to use and consume more than their share of system resources. I use AVG a lot and find that it's lightweight, easy to use, and very good at detecting viruses.
Find the free version of AVG at http://free.grisoft.com.
You should be using adware/spyware utility as well. I recommend Microsoft's Windows Defender (free) and/or Spybot Search & Destroy (free).
Good luck.
2007-01-16 03:50:57 · answer #2 · answered by JackKnife 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free Anti-Virus Programs Follow the link.
2016-05-25 00:01:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my computer, Anti virus Grisoft (AVG) free edition has detected Trojans and virus that Norton couldn't and eliminated them.
2007-01-16 03:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by JAGC 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I use AVG anti-virus free edition, I think it works pretty good.
2007-01-16 03:27:30 · answer #5 · answered by purple_lily76 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
free ones like avg or avast do not provide the same protection as norton or mcafee
they may tide you over till you can renew your current one
2007-01-16 03:38:06 · answer #6 · answered by great one 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Norton
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McAfee.
It is a fact. If you can't pay for anti-virus, just use a local library's computer. Normaly, they will allow you to use a computer for a period of time.
2007-01-16 03:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by Rock 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://www.softdll.com/antivirus/avastviruscleaner.html
avast! Virus Cleaner was awarded with five stars by server Softdll.com.
2007-01-16 03:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Avast! Antivirus has always worked well for me. It's free (there are pay versions as well). Get it at http://www.avast.com
2007-01-16 03:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by John K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can use Avast ant-virus it's a great progam. You know what I like it talk to you no ****.
2007-01-16 03:31:23 · answer #10 · answered by yes use avast it works for me 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋