Just got windows 7. Good free Anti-Virus i can use?

I need a really good anti virus. Like one of equal quality to the paid ones. Something that you personally use to defend your pc.

And if that isnt possible with a free one, reccommend a bought one that i will look into.

Thanks.

between AVG and avira, whats better?

I always hear AVG is awful now. I now use Avira. I also hear that Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast are supposed to be pretty good.

I always hear AVG is awful now. I now use Avira. I also hear that Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast are supposed to be pretty good.

assmonkey333

Microsoft Security Essentials

The recommended softwares are good enough.

TIPS: Control what you download on your computer. I haven't got a single VIRUS on my system ever since I became a hardware-enthusiast and an overall computer geek!

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

ish27

Second of all, if you look in that chart you posted. Avira has MANY False Positives. Thats really bad when your trying to download something and it deletes a file because it got a false positive.

Case in point, MW2 with Avira. Avria was saying that MW2 was putting viruses on people's computers which caused a lot of out rage on Activision's forums, Infinity Ward's and Steam forums.

[QUOTE="ish27"]

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

kilerchese

Second of all, if you look in that chart you posted. Avira has MANY False Positives. Thats really bad when your trying to download something and it deletes a file because it got a false positive.

Case in point, MW2 with Avira. Avria was saying that MW2 was putting viruses on people's computers which caused a lot of out rage on Activision's forums, Infinity Ward's and Steam forums.

In fact, if you were to read the entire article you'd notice that avira was rated much lower than the other AVs just because of all the false positives. Avast was rated among the highest with most of the retail AVs (although slightly worse as depicted by the graph).

I also think Avira 9.0.0.446 is a build for the premium version, which does more than just AV.

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[QUOTE="ish27"]

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

Swiftstrike5

Second of all, if you look in that chart you posted. Avira has MANY False Positives. Thats really bad when your trying to download something and it deletes a file because it got a false positive.

Case in point, MW2 with Avira. Avria was saying that MW2 was putting viruses on people's computers which caused a lot of out rage on Activision's forums, Infinity Ward's and Steam forums.

In fact, if you were to read the entire article you'd notice that avira was rated much lower than the other AVs just because of all the false positives. Avast was rated among the highest with most of the retail AVs (although slightly worse as depicted by the graph).

I also think Avira 9.0.0.446 is a build for the premium version, which does more than just AV.

Problems that you have with Avira are down to your settings

i use Avira all the time and get maybe 2/3 false positives per month

that is better than Kaspersky or Norton not detecting anything and having your PC hijacked

Problems that you have with Avira are down to your settings

i use Avira all the time and get maybe 2/3 false positives per month

that is better than Kaspersky or Norton not detecting anything and having your PC hijackedpecanin

How do I know? Because I scan my PC every couple of months with Malwarebytes.

[QUOTE="pecanin"]Problems that you have with Avira are down to your settings

i use Avira all the time and get maybe 2/3 false positives per month

that is better than Kaspersky or Norton not detecting anything and having your PC hijackedkilerchese

How do I know? Because I scan my PC every couple of months with Malwarebytes.

You know that Malware doesn't detect Killapp trojans or Keyloggers ?

[QUOTE="ish27"]

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

kilerchese

Second of all, if you look in that chart you posted. Avira has MANY False Positives. Thats really bad when your trying to download something and it deletes a file because it got a false positive.

Case in point, MW2 with Avira. Avria was saying that MW2 was putting viruses on people's computers which caused a lot of out rage on Activision's forums, Infinity Ward's and Steam forums.

[QUOTE="ish27"]

Avira is the best, it even bet out every pay-to-use AV program.

kilerchese

Second of all, if you look in that chart you posted. Avira has MANY False Positives. Thats really bad when your trying to download something and it deletes a file because it got a false positive.

Case in point, MW2 with Avira. Avria was saying that MW2 was putting viruses on people's computers which caused a lot of out rage on Activision's forums, Infinity Ward's and Steam forums.