2007-11-04 07:13:23 · 10 answers · asked by Grand pa 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
For me it was. They keep after you join their program by buying it. Half of them don't work, after the first free time.
2007-11-04 07:36:25 · answer #1 · answered by Coop 366 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many company has released distinctive antivirus classes that avoids laptop from the viruses assaults. There are some accepted unfastened antiviruses classes like the followings :-- a million. Mcafee antivirus 2. AVG antivirus 3. Norton antivirus 4. Avira antivirus 5. Kaspersky antivirus 6. Panda antivirus 7. Avast antivirus 8. domicile windows stay One Care 9. speedy Heal antivirus 10. eTrust antivirus 11. NOD 32 antivirus
2016-11-10 06:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For your anti-virus needs, I would suggest Avira AntiVir® PersonalEdition Classic. It has excellent heuristics, a virus detection rate that is better than most "paid-for" anti-virus programs and is light on using your computer's resources. Uses less then 10 MB RAM on my machine. And did I mention that it's free!
Download here:
http://www.free-av.com/
BTW, Avoid the free version of an anti-virus called AVG, it is wildly popular, but it has horrible virus detection capibilities.
Enjoy!
2007-11-04 13:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are being offered one - it is a scam! However these are free with no catch.
I have listed a few anti virus and a few anti spyware programs that are available for download and are completely free: I will not get involved with the rights and wrongs of each package or its effectiveness or indeed “This is best” or “This is crap” statements. Whatever you do, just make sure you have one of each type installed, updated and fully working:
Anti Virus
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.avira.com
http://free.grisoft.com
http://www.free-av.com
Anti Spyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
http://www.spybot.info/
http://www.spywareterminator.com
http://free.grisoft.com
wdw
2007-11-04 07:18:55 · answer #4 · answered by Who Dares Wins 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
PCTools products do get good reviews. The good thing is they have free versions of their products. They work great. Spyware Doctor from the Google pack is a
must. I highly recommend it. I bought Webroots Spysweeper and spyware doctor finds stuff spysweeper does not. Having both is a perfect combo and I recommend
running two anti-spyware products.
PCTools Anti-Virus
http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/
PCTools Threatfire - Malware Protection
This free tool makes your current anti-virus better. Definite Download
http://www.threatfire.com
PCTools Firewall Plus
http://www.pctools.com/firewall/
The Google Pack includes a free starter edition of Spyware Doctor.
http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer_new.html?hl=en&gl=us&ai=BZy9nzYgZR_j2KofKmwTgjq3mAezuhSGAyqSDAsWNtwEAEAEgw9-LBTgBUIfas8sEYMnG5YbIo-gZoAGWl5z9A7IBD
mZvcmRicmFrZXMuY29tyAEC2gEWaHR0cDovL2ZvcmRicmFrZXMuY29tL4ACAagDAw&gclid=CJu2m5HWnI8CFSUYagodtkXDew&ciNum=11
Reviews
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136191/article.html
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You can do an online scan for viruses and spyware for free from the major vendors. Some of these require Internet Explorer to run
because of Active-X
Trend-Micro
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
Computer Associates
http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pestscan/
Panda Software
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
Symantec Security Check
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/?langid=ie&venid=sym
Mcafee Free Scan
http://us.mcafee.com/root/catalog.asp?catid=free
Kaspersky Scanner
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
Microsoft Protection Scanner
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/center/howsafe.htm?s_cid=mscom_msrt
F-Secure
http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/olsbeta.shtml
BitDefender
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
NOD32
http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/index.php
2007-11-04 09:17:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes! nothing is free they will do a scan and tell you what it cost to install their software to remove the virus. just go to wal-mart and buy an anti-virus program like fix it utilities 8 around 30.00 bucks
2007-11-04 07:39:08 · answer #6 · answered by todd c 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on the site that is offering the service, if unsure if the site is reputable or not try doing a search of the site via google and see if others have had problems with them or not
2007-11-04 07:19:53 · answer #7 · answered by techchick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is, light weight, Google recommendation and free, and most of all. it works;)
http://free-norton-scan.blogspot.com
2007-11-04 10:39:52 · answer #8 · answered by Helen M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they find the virus you pay to get rid of it. Get spybot, AVG spy
AVG virus, SpywareBlaster
2007-11-04 07:59:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably a scam dont do it use spyware doctor http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/download
then use kaspersky
www.Kaspersky.com
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/beta/index.html
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/beta/forcefield/index.html
2007-11-04 07:19:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋