What are the best free anti virus softwares that you would recommend?

Topic speaks for itself. Time for a change and I'd like to know what people would recommend.

Running Win 7 64bit, so something compatible with that (can't imagine anything wouldn't be these days).

AVG. I heard Adaware free version has Antivirus aswell now too, havent tried it but aparently its pretty good.

Avast is a pretty well done free AV. I've used it for a while now and everything seems to be holding up quite well, at least as far as I can tell!

Avast is a pretty well done free AV. I've used it for a while now and everything seems to be holding up quite well, at least as far as I can tell!

jer_1

AVG. It doesn't get in the way of my computer like most. Computer and memory usage isn't a problem either, unlike McAffe and Norton.

I really question how accurate av-test.org is.  My work place uses Sophos and I find it sucks.  It gets a very high rating on the av-test.org website which doesn't make sense.  I've used a wide range of corp anti-virus editions from Mcafee, Sysmantec, Kaspersky, etc..  Even used GFI which incorporates multiple anti-virus software into one product.  All of them were better than Sophos.  Sophos is a pain to use and it's really bad when put on old systems.  Slows old computers to a crawl.  Yet it gets pretty high scores on that website for everything. 

Where I work we have 1300 end users using Sophos so I have pretty good sample to go by.  The site needs to do some re-testing.     

Microsoft Security Essentials you can't tell it's there until it needs you. Very happy with it for the 2 years i've been using it.

If you go by av-test.org, your best bet is Avast. AVG comes in second but it's bloated these days. But while MSE is lightweight and unobtrusive, it's been proven to miss threats that both Avast and AVG miss.

You guys know that MSE failed AV-Test Certification right? Elann2008

Meh... I have been using it since it launched in 2009 and I have never had a virus... And I use some pretty shady sites.

Not only that but it is so minimal.  On both Windows 7 and now on Windows 8, I have literally never seen it... Ever... Like right now I just had to go out of my way to even find it, and apparently it just scanned my computer while I played a game of league of legends and I didn't even notice it was happening...

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]You guys know that MSE failed AV-Test Certification right? Squeets

Meh... I have been using it since it launched in 2009 and I have never had a virus... And I use some pretty shady sites.

Not only that but it is so minimal.  On both Windows 7 and now on Windows 8, I have literally never seen it... Ever... Like right now I just had to go out of my way to even find it, and apparently it just scanned my computer while I played a game of league of legends and I didn't even notice it was happening...

Yeah I never had any viruses either, but I noticed MSE reporting errors in my event log. It couldn't do real-time malware updates and it kept on failing. Since then, I stopped using it. To be fair, I've seen Avast pick up malware when MSE didn't detect a thing.. which made me wonder if it was doing anything at all.

In this case, why anyone would use MSE over Avast is beyond me. Both are completely free, no strings attached, but Avast does a better job. Avast acts like it's barely there as well. I've used MSE until they failed the AV-test Certification and showing up errors.   

Like what a lot of people are saying. Avast, AVG, and Microsoft are pretty good.

I am using Avast because AVG popups were getting annoying.

Only have used MSE & AVG.  My university offers a free version of Symantec AV, but I've never used it on any of my own systems (though I've installed it for others).

I use avast and spybot, they have done me well over the last couple of years

I use Avast and Spybot.  Had no problems with either, thus far.

Microsoft Security Essentials is the best one I've used.

Like what a lot of people are saying. Avast, AVG, and Microsoft are pretty good.

I am using Avast because AVG popups were getting annoying.

CBN16

Same here. I used to be a AVG user but now I'm using Avast and it's less annoying :)