Good free Virus Scanners.

I thought it would be nice to post what free virus scanners people are using. I know how mad it gets when people are looking for virus scanners then get one where you have to buy after a scan. I have found a very nice virus scanner that scans and repairs the registry and its free. It seemed like it made my computer run a little faster from not having a virus scan besides Windows Defender. Hope you guys like it.

Here is a link from CNET

http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html

AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.04dcarraher

Anyone looking for security should have a look here

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.markop2003

Anyone looking for security should have a look here

How the **** can that be a credible guide when

1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)

and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!

After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.

[QUOTE="markop2003"]

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.edd678

Anyone looking for security should have a look here

How the **** can that be a credible guide when

1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)

and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!

After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.

[QUOTE="markop2003"]

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.edd678

Anyone looking for security should have a look here

How the **** can that be a credible guide when

1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)

and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!

After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.

In the latest AV-Comparatives PDF that I saw from Feb, Avira pulled 2nd place in detections (99.7%), putting it well ahead of Avast! (98.2%), NOD32 (97.6%), Kapersky (97.1%), and especially AVG (93%).

i had read something on maximum pc on which they based 10 of some anti virus programs to see what they rated. They rated Norton Internet security as a good pay for Program. I will give a link to the article.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/protect_your_pc_from_guys_like_this

AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.04dcarraher

[QUOTE="edd678"]

[QUOTE="markop2003"]
It's let a couple things through for me before and the updates crashed my games

Anyone looking for security should have a look here

Makari

How the **** can that be a credible guide when

1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)

and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!

After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.

In the latest AV-Comparatives PDF that I saw from Feb, Avira pulled 2nd place in detections (99.7%), putting it well ahead of Avast! (98.2%), NOD32 (97.6%), Kapersky (97.1%), and especially AVG (93%).

LOL, thanks for the backup guys :) Anyhoo Eddy doesent know what he is on about, by his logic Norton & McAfee should be top of the line ^^ If its of any relevance i work as a PC technician for a living so i use a large amount of AV programs on a dialy basis...Avast is Amazing for a freee program and Antivir is also good.

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]AVG Anti Virus Free is pretty good too.amirzaim

i had read something on maximum pc on which they based 10 of some anti virus programs to see what they rated. They rated Norton Internet security as a good pay for Program. I will give a link to the article.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/protect_your_pc_from_guys_like_this

Shootn

I thought it would be nice to post what free virus scanners people are using. I know how mad it gets when people are looking for virus scanners then get one where you have to buy after a scan. I have found a very nice virus scanner that scans and repairs the registry and its free. It seemed like it made my computer run a little faster from not having a virus scan besides Windows Defender. Hope you guys like it.

Here is a link from CNET

http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html

Shootn

That link doesn't direct me to a virus scanner so I'm a little confused about what you are trying to say here.

Anyway, I have been using Avast for years now (ever since some other free scanner failed to detect an infection, i think that was antivir coincidentally) and have never had a single problem with it.

antivir all day long. the new free version include antispyware, and the detection rates are way higher than avg or avast.

here

here

but if for sum reason u dont want antivir, go with avast. avast is still better than avg.

OMG people, some of the WORST anti-virus apps are free. I DO NOT recommend using a free anti-virus app. Use Kaspersky or Nod32, two of the best out of all others hands down. I use Kaspersky, they also give you a one month trial to try it out first in which case you'll have to obtain a lincense. Go to Kaspersky.com and give it a try. Norton and Mcafee are a joke. (Norton being one of the worst)

[QUOTE="Makari"]

[QUOTE="edd678"]

How the **** can that be a credible guide when

1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)

and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!

After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.

Daytona_178

In the latest AV-Comparatives PDF that I saw from Feb, Avira pulled 2nd place in detections (99.7%), putting it well ahead of Avast! (98.2%), NOD32 (97.6%), Kapersky (97.1%), and especially AVG (93%).

LOL, thanks for the backup guys :) Anyhoo Eddy doesent know what he is on about, by his logic Norton & McAfee should be top of the line ^^ If its of any relevance i work as a PC technician for a living so i use a large amount of AV programs on a dialy basis...Avast is Amazing for a freee program and Antivir is also good.

If you really wanted to look after your comp from the **** that is out there on the net you wouldnt use a free program, simple as. I work in I.T and through some stupid company policy avast pro is used on all comps and servers. The ammount of times the servers and comps have had to be formatted, slowed down etc from viruses that avast has no detected is unbeliveable. Its happned around 4 times this year already costing the company a **** load of money. If thats the pro version then i dread to think about the ****ness of avast free. Plenty of better antivirus and i would personally never use that avast ****e on my pc.

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

[QUOTE="Makari"] I read the blog post, and.. well, both of those things are true. If all you want is anti-virus, Avast! and Avira both offer some of the best detection rates. Their paid versions use the exact same databases as the free versions (as most AV's with two versions do), so you're getting that crazy detection rate for free.

In the latest AV-Comparatives PDF that I saw from Feb, Avira pulled 2nd place in detections (99.7%), putting it well ahead of Avast! (98.2%), NOD32 (97.6%), Kapersky (97.1%), and especially AVG (93%).

LOL, thanks for the backup guys :) Anyhoo Eddy doesent know what he is on about, by his logic Norton & McAfee should be top of the line ^^ If its of any relevance i work as a PC technician for a living so i use a large amount of AV programs on a dialy basis...Avast is Amazing for a freee program and Antivir is also good.

If you really wanted to look after your comp from the **** that is out there on the net you wouldnt use a free program, simple as. I work in I.T and through some stupid company policy avast pro is used on all comps and servers. The ammount of times the servers and comps have had to be formatted, slowed down etc from viruses that avast has no detected is unbeliveable. Its happned around 4 times this year already costing the company a **** load of money. If thats the pro version then i dread to think about the ****ness of avast free. Plenty of better antivirus and i would personally never use that avast ****e on my pc.

[QUOTE="Shootn"]

I thought it would be nice to post what free virus scanners people are using. I know how mad it gets when people are looking for virus scanners then get one where you have to buy after a scan. I have found a very nice virus scanner that scans and repairs the registry and its free. It seemed like it made my computer run a little faster from not having a virus scan besides Windows Defender. Hope you guys like it.

Here is a link from CNET

http://download.cnet.com/Glary-Utilities/3000-2094_4-10508531.html

That link doesn't direct me to a virus scanner so I'm a little confused about what you are trying to say here.

Anyway, I have been using Avast for years now (ever since some other free scanner failed to detect an infection, i think that was antivir coincidentally) and have never had a single problem with it.

lately i have been using a new virus/registry scanner called advanced system care.

http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-SystemCare-Free/3000-2086_4-10407614.html