I've been searching online for almost a year for a great AV.....the best I've found (that is free....I'm on a budget) is AVG. Is there anything better?
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I've been searching online for almost a year for a great AV.....the best I've found (that is free....I'm on a budget) is AVG. Is there anything better?
Nope, if you don't want to spend money on one (like me) use AVG.
AVG is pretty good, i recommend it to anyone who wants a free anti-virus.
A google search turned up this . Was one of the google sponsered link so i think it is on the level. Check it out if you want.
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[edit] looked aound a little and they dont have it up for download, you have to get a CD mailed to you. Turns out to about USD$14 for S&H [/edit]
yes avg i the best free av inarguably
Heh, i using DrWeb as secoundare AV on my PC,
http://www.sald.com/
I recomend to use it if you need one more AV for secound scan. Free version have limited functionality. :( but it works good for me.
Try AntiVir Personal Edition http://free-av.com
I think it is better than AVG as it can detect more malware than AVG. ;)
One needs to be careful of the claims to detect malware. At any one time there are probably no more than 2000 in the "wild". AVs that claim to detect 80,000 or more are misleading as a lot of these are old DOS items or "laboratory/proof of concepts"Quote:
I think it is better than AVG as it can detect more malware than AVG
The real questions are:
1. How good is the heuristic detection?
2. How quick is the product response to a new incidence?
What I am saying is that you need to look to the future, not history ;)
Cheers
AVG is great for home users and for those of us who wont pay for subscriptions from Norton like me. I actaully believe it excels Norton but thats a personal opinion. I say stick with AVG, its reliable.
I use AVG myself :D
I'm a newbie, but AVG is getting the job done on my computer
I also use PC-cillin and McAfee...and I pay for those?
Cheers
But for free....I would go AVG.......but I would probably get the payware version?
Hey!..."free" may not be that free?
Cheers
JenaLynn you got pm
Free?AVG? Well i use NAV and its the best one I've had...its also free that is if you have kazaa
peace
/scriptkiddie18
AVG in my personal opinion is good if you dont have the money available to you at the time to purchase one. As for a paid anti-virus product I would have to say I lean more towards Norton it's reliable, updates are very frequent, heuristics are very good [ my personal opinion]. So far I've had no problems whatsoever with their product.
I also like to use the free on-line scans that are available from other anti-virus sites:
[1]Trend Micro
[2]Bit Defender
Note: There are others but those are the ones that I like.
Downloading software from Kazaa that should be paid for is well "illegal" and not something that you would want to do. Since you never know what other unexpected surprises may come along with it. Ex. [ Trojan[s],Key Logger[s],Virus[es] etc .... ]
I see that almost everyone uses AVG. I don't:)
I use another great czech product (the other ones are beer and avg:) avast - http://www.avast.com/i_kat_1.html. It's free for personal use, it received many awards (i.e. 100% virus bulletin award, 6duck at NoNags,ChipTip etc.). It's great.
I can really recommend this one:)
I would say 99.9% of "this av is better" is based off nothing other than that the person has had no problems using it or likes the color of the gui. If you wish to see some decent analysis http://www.av-test.org/ http://www.pcmweb.nl/pcm/tabellen/antivirus.htm
Almost everybody that does not want to spend money on AV uses AVG software, but there are some virus that its does not fix, delete nor quarantine, eg. i-warms. Did any of us using AVG had such problem?
My other fair/caution is on the developers of AVG. Don't we think they can be able to send us virus through upgrade/update so that we can pay some fee before its continue working? not only the AVG freeware, but all other freewares. All I have to say is "We end users should always be carefull, caustion and sure of all those freeware that almost all internet users are downloading and using without paying a diam".
Thanks All and My greetings goes to AntiOnline and all members of AntiOnline.
AVG is a very good av but not nearly as good with worms and trojans. It caught a couple I came across though when I used it. Overall, I liked and trusted it enough to use it for a couple of years. During that time, it kept my machine clean.
As for the developers sending a virus through update, I seriously doubt it. If they were of that mind, they could easily discontinue the free version or make it a 30 day trial. There are people in the world who really do give things away for nothing. AVAST and Antivir are two other av's that have free versions for those who won't or can't pay.
Bitdefender also offers a free version, only it doesn't have real time protection only on demand scanning. It's a good backup. Another is Microworld Technologies that has a freeware av, also on demand only. It uses the Kaspersky engine which is a big plus. I tried it but it acted weird on my machine and I couldn't get it to update.
AVG, AVAST, and Antivir are all very good freeware antivirus programs. I've tried them all and wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of them. If you're looking for pay versions, I recommend Kaspersky, Dr. Web, or NOD32. A simple search will give the websites. Dr. Web is relatively inexpensive and rates pretty high in tests. I use Kaspersky Pro now and love it.
Personally i use norman which is very good and is available free from www.optistat.com / co.uk
I've seen references to Norman antivirus on a couple of security sites I frequent. Nothing but good reports about it. It's only available in the free version to people in England, France, and Germany. I'm tempted to tell some fibs and see if I can't download it, since I'd like to try it.
i agree i think AVG is the best free AV but it works well with if u could combine it another trojan scanner like i got MooSoft The Cleaner 4.0 Professional . the combination of both with a another free firewall agnitum outpost firewall works wonders for me .Quote:
AVG is a very good av but not nearly as good with worms and trojans
Thanks all!