Best free antivirus?

Question is simple really, what is the best FREE antivirus software?

asked Oct 14 '10 at 22:14

snoeven
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(Oct 14 '10 at 22:24) Yuma

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1	Avira is an awesome free virus protection been using it for years. http://www.avira.com/en/downloads answered Jan 08 at 07:16 Blake_Cond 31●7●9●12

0	Free antivirus software means the software which is available in online without any payment. answered Jan 08 at 04:30 olive (suspended) This isn't at all helpful either, we know what the word free means, he was asking what the best option is. (Jan 08 at 07:20) Tim Fontana

2	Microst's Security Essentials answered Jan 07 at 18:28 Mikeysal12 51●1●3●4

1	Avast! Free Antivirus is the one I use and it clears out any viruses I've ever had, but I don't get them a lot. http://www.avast.com answered Jan 07 at 14:38 Cameron 1.8k●103●127●134

1	Been using Microst's Security Essentials since they sared with it. Still virus-free -) answered Jan 07 at 08:53 LukeSBE 241●3●3●8

Some Best free antivirus & Antimalware software are:

Immunet Antivirus http://www.immunet.com/main/index.html

AVG antivirus http://download.cnet.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition-2012/3000-2239_4-10320142.html

Kaspersky Antivirus http://download.cnet.com/Kaspersky-Anti-Virus/3000-2239_4-10259842.html

Avast Free Antivirus http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10019223.html

Avira Free Antivirus http://download.cnet.com/Avira-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10322935.html

Microsoft Security Essential http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-Security-Essentials/3000-2239_4-10969260.html

Malwarebytes Anti-malware http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

answered Jan 07 at 05:42

Susi
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well imo no free AV is worth the money... and that is saying some thing... because its free... and yes it does cost money in disk space, memory and processor... I would pay the money to go with Symantec/Norton...

The reason why I would not recommend a free one is because your not really that protected, I know a lot of people with disagree but security updates and virus updates come later, and they often times dont stand by there product. I feel if anything it gives a false sense of security.

However, I do run a Ubuntu Virtual Box - for that I use ClamAV... I know its Linux you shouldn't need an AV for it... but for the same reason its Linux... its easy to screw some thing up and easy for some one else to screw something up for you. So if some one does write one for Linux, at least I have some protection.

I will also say that the an AV does more then scan files, it watches what programs on your computer are doing in case one is not known, it can still watch its behavior. and the best I have seen to do this is Symantec...

so I would not recommend any free antivirus.

answered Oct 15 '10 at 00:15

trueb
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0	Avast free antivirus, I test AV software and by far is the best I tried. Another good one is Avira :) not as great as Avast though but is still cool. answered Oct 14 '10 at 22:34 Patxi 12.6k●206●272●386

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