Best Free AntiVirus....??

[emzy]

Hi everyone,

Chileans don't really have a clue about life so the computer here (even though its less than a year old) is as slow as... a slow thing because of the 60 thousand useless antivirus and anti spyware programs that all scan every 3 seconds. There's also LOADS of random processes that shouldn't be happening but I don't know enough to know which ones shouldn't be there.

BUT... what I need is the best free antivirus software, and an anti spyware one too so that I can delete all of the rubbish and just have one.

Can anyone help??

Thank yoooou!

[super sparks]

try avg free we run it on all our machines at home its brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Matisse]

ditto, AVG is the don.

[losixxx]

i installed avg and ad-aware, ran avg first then ad-aware, the latter found more and made the PC run far quicker...binned avg

[Timee80]

Download avg free edition. (just google it) It is a totally free antivirus and spyware package that works great. Also run msconfig from the "run" facility in the start menu and uncheck everything in there that you dont need to run on start up. You only really need about the first ten things if i remember right. This will speed it up a bit without having to do anything too technical.

[the mad1]

definetly avg free ive used it for years with no problems at all i also use spybot searh and destroy to get rid of any spyware

[ryan_93]

avg or avast are the best

[sosidge]

Originally Posted by losixxx

i installed avg and ad-aware, ran avg first then ad-aware, the latter found more and made the PC run far quicker...binned avg

Ad Aware (free) is just anti-spyware, not anti-virus. You need a virus checker as well unless you are fool enough to be paying them!

AVG is excellent, I have used it for years, always very well reviewed, and with better reviews than the paid-for software like Norton and McAfee which always used to clog up the computer (Norton in particular was a bee-atch to uninstall).

PS AVG try and hide the "free" edition if you go to their main site - go to http://free.avg.com to get it direct.

[gargadud]

I use Avast and Threatfire. Both are free and together you cant miss any virus!

[Supergreg]

1. make restore point.

2. de-install all zillion anti-virus and anti-spyware.

3. clean all the crap from your computer with ccleaner.

4. install any of the anti-virus software above.

5. keep tracking of installed software. Install just the things you really need. Even if you uninstall any software, there are still remains of it in the registry. Better use an advanced de-installer like Revo uninstaller.

6. Use ccleaner and ad-aware from time to time.

[bodgit]

I just downloaded ad-aware and ran it , It found 286 it now wants me to buy a "key" to reapir/remove the problems??? thought this was free or have I done something wrong

[losixxx]

http://www.lavasoft.com/single/trialpay.php

free for me m8