good FREE antivirus/anti-spyware?

Question

i need a GOOD FREE antivirus. Or at least a program that can clean out a stupid InternetExplorer virus I have in the trial period. Most of the antivirus programs cost like $20, and I aint payin that kinda $ to fix a minor issue. Yahoo! Anti-spy isnt quite doing the trick. Help anyone??

Answer 1

These are all free.

Download Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Virus,Anti-Malware.(free)

AVG is a collection of anti-virus protection tools that gives you full protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and malware. AVG provides you with all that you need to be completely protected: including a tool for scanning your hard drive and e-mail, as well as a real-time shield to prevent infections.
Top Features

» Provides automatic update functionality
» Its a reliable anti-virus scanning engine
» Provides free Virus Updates for life
» Options to define file name extensions
» Real time protection with resident shield, email scanning
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/...

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free.
http://www.spybot.info/

SUPERAntiSpyware is the most thorough scanner on the market. Our Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware that other products miss! SUPERAntiSpyware will remove ALL the Spyware, NOT just the easy ones.Easily remove over 100,000 pests such as SmitFraud, Vundo, WinFixer, SpyAxe, SpyFalcon, WinAntiVirus, AntiVermins and thousands more!

http://superantispyware.com/
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

I use a combination of AVG Free, Spybot Search and Destroy and Spyware Blaster. All of these are totally free programs without time limitation.

Answer 4

There are several good Free Anti-spyware/adware tool for you:
spybot search and destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG anti-spyware: http://www.grisoft.com
Top 5 anti-spywares: http://www.spywaredetectors.info

You can download and scan your computer for free.
P.S.:Make sure you have 1 or 2 antispyware on your computer and 1 antivirus and also 1 firewall.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Download from this line AVG free antivirus

http://free.grisoft.com/

Here are two excellent free antispyware programs I use.

Superantispyware will find what all other miss. Download their free version. http://www.superantispyware.com

The other is from Austria. A2Malware, will detects malware, keyloggers, rogue dialers, trace cookes, trojans and malware. Neither has conflict with any antivirus program you may install. http://www.emsisoft.com

Minddoctor, France

Answer 6

check out
http://computer-probs.blogspot.com/
It not only gives complete solutions but also offers
free downloads of effective softwares which can detect
and eliminate all spy ware /virus /ad ware /Trojans completely.

Answer 7

AVG Free free.grisoft.com/

or just go to www.bitdefender.com and run a free online scan, that's a good scan.

Answer 8

GarbageClean antispyware from http://www.SecureMyWindows.com

It is web based and doesn't require installation and it is completely free.

Answer 9

I recommend you to print this out first
Please follow these steps to a completely secure and clean computer, which is all for free and safe! Remove all firewalls and anti-virus on your computer, as more than one of them causes unwanted conflicts on your computer. Note: It is perfectly fine to have more than one anti-spyware. To remove “Windows Firewall”, click Start>Control Panel>Security Center>Windows Firewall>Off (not recommended) Note: Don’t worry about that, these steps will relieve you of that worry. Now that’s done, remove your ant-virus by clicking Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs. (Wait for the list to be populated by all your programs on your computer.) Look for your anti-virus, then click “remove” after that follow the uninstall wizard to remove your anti-virus. Note: If you had a different firewall than “Windows Firewall” then just follow the way to remove your anti-virus, except look for your firewall instead of the anti-virus. (Make sure that the “Windows Firewall” is off also).
Security Programs:
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1.) AVG Anti-Virus
-http://www.download.com/3000-2239_4-10703202.html

2.) AVG Anti-Spyware
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=asf

3.) AVG Anti-Rootkit
-http://free.grisoft.com/doc/downloads-products/us/frt/0?prd=arw

4.) Spybot Search&Destroy
-http://fileforum.betanews.com/download/Spybot_Search_and_Destroy/1043809773/1

5.) a-squared Free
-http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/download/

6.) Ad-Aware 2007 Free
-http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-2007-Free/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5

7.) Windows Defender
- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&displayLang=en&hash=OZ12x%2facDQZcX14rp6O9q9QOmDfEK%2bmKGAs04c76ST9TPXNC57za3qarG0Mx1emmFlaOph74OsG9FiJQt2AF5Q%3d%3d

8.) Comodo Firewall
- http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

Computer Clean Up & Tune Up Programs:
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1.) CCleaner
- http://ccleaner.com/download/downloadpage.aspx?1

2.) Advanced WindowsCare Personal
- http://www.download.com/Advanced-WindowsCare-Personal/3000-2086-10407614.html?part=dl-AdvancedW&subj=dl&tag=button

3.) IObit SmartDefrag
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=5318&file=10&evp=3907499a9d91d6d4d70477dfa7628159

4.) Eusing Free Registry Cleaner
- http://www.snapfiles.com/download/dleusingregistry.html

5.) Registry Distiller
- http://www.codeode.com/registrydistiller/index.html

6.) TweakNow RegCleaner Standard
- http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html

Now that you have completed downloading these programs, restart your computer twice. (This ensures that all or most of the programs have been properly installed on your computer). After restarting your computer twice, update every single program, this is to be done as much as possible. Now that you have updated all the programs reboot into “Safe Mode” (This will make a nice, deep, clean scan on your computer with your new programs)-Turn off your computer>Turn on your computer>immediately hold on “F8”. This brings you to the menu to go to “Safe Mode”. Use your arrow keys and select “Safe Mode” Then log in. Congratulations, you have logged into “Safe Mode” Now that you are in “Safe Mode” (Run a full scan on every program when told to.) Run a FULL SCAN on AVG anti-spyware, AVG anti-virus, and AVG anti-rootkit at the same time. After these programs have finished, delete all found infections. Now run a FULL SCAN
on A-Squared Free, AdAware 2007 Free, and Spybot Search&Destroy at the same time so nothing can slip through. Note: There is not a Full Scan option on Spybot Search&Detstroy. If these programs have found anything, simply delete whatever they have found. Finally run a FULL SCAN with Windows Defender. It’s kind of hard to find out how to do a full scan on Windows Defender, so here’s how. On the top you can see “scan”, then right next to it, is a diagonal line, right next to that is an arrow, click on it and choose full scan. Windows should not find anything by now so if it hasn’t, congratulations your computer has been disinfected of viruses, spyware, and much more, but we are not done yet. Its time to clean up, so now run each of the clean up & tune up programs one by one! They should find some stuff so if they do then simply fix the problems by clicking fix or repair. Note: “Fix” or “Repair” are the options of most of the clean up & tune up programs. Congratulations your computer has been cleaned, disinfected, and tuned up. Also if you want to have an enjoyable internet browser, where you can go wherever you want, without having to worry about pop ups then, download these internet browsers which are listed by ranking.
1.) Safari- http://www.apple.com/safari/download/
2.) Mozilla- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-2.0.0.6&os=win&lang=en-US
3.) Opera- http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=29650&thanks=true&sub=true
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