The best "Free" antivirus in your opinion?

gersfan · Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:28 am

Im trying to figure out the best free antivirus program or really just any good one. One that doesnt expire after 30 days. Any thoughts?

And another question.... anyone use panda antivirus? Know where to bring up where the list of files are quarrantined at?

Freezmizer · Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:51 am

AVG Free has worked great for me, easy to use, frequent updates and has kept my puter clean for quite awhile.

Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:11 am

Don't use Norton, it's actually a very well disguised virus... I'm kidding but it's crap, I agree with Freez; AVG rocks

gersfan · Mon Sep 06, 2004 9:38 am

ok, thanks both

I used grisoft before, but kept not being able to update it. Wondering if that would still be the case.

ADi@/\/TUM · Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:39 pm

AVG is pretty good and it worked for me when I used it

tunebud · Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:16 am

I have heard that some users use no on your PC virus protection.. Instead they use the online scans.
Or/and keep backups,then system restore or reformat every so often..Saves space but not time.

Layzie Bone · Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:56 am

I dont quite understand what happened to Norton, becuase, it "used" to work fine. Lately it's been, "Norton Anti-Virus has encoutered a internal program error, please reinstall the software." This is $60 software to be screwed up, somebody is being pretty cheap, no offense, but are they hiring mexicans to write thier programs?

StorbinC · Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:28 pm

i never had a problem with norton for the past 4 years I been using em.... but not sure if i'm gona use em this year or not ..... this year is the first year that I have used a free firewall and it seems to be working fine.

but i do know its just stupid not to keep an active antivirus program running on your computer exspecialy with all the Downloading I do like most of yall.

quicksilver · Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:33 pm

I agree if you dont have antiviral software running when downloading your a mad man (or mad lady..lol) .
I have used nortons for years also and only once has it caused trouble and that was my fault for turning off the firwall , a nice bug crawled in and nuked the antivirus package and started trying to open a door for anyone , I read about it and its specifically targetted to take out all the usual AV packages .. very nice

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Most of you use AVG I noticed and thats the most popular free one I think.

gersfan · Fri Sep 10, 2004 9:29 am

thanks again all!

I do use Panda, and Im not at all happy with it. When it runs out at the first of the year, I do believe i'm gonna dump it.

quicksilver · Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:26 pm

Glad we could help Gersfan

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Bacon · Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:07 am

Although PC-Cillin Internet Security costs money, I cannot stress enough how good it is, specially if your going from Free Software to PC-Cillin. You can buy with your credit card, download it and be up and going as fast as your internet connection is. I have been using it for two years over two licences and its great, plus it isn't a RAM hungry application like Norton.

Highly Recommended PC-Cillin Internet Security 2004 from Bacon

quicksilver · Sat Sep 11, 2004 9:33 am

I must agree with you on that Bacon many are the times Norton would refuse to scan a file because it had eaten up all the resources.

John Riddler · Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:24 pm

Freezmizer wrote:AVG Free has worked great for me, easy to use, frequent updates and has kept my puter clean for quite awhile.

i use that an i got rid of all the viruses of my old comp i now have it on this...

quicksilver · Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:24 am

Most packages that are any good all rely on the updates and thats the important factor .
The more popular a certain brand is the more the temptation for the virus writers to attack it

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