Best Free Anti-virus?

[Ranger2]

Right now I'm using AVG 8.5 Free, and it's pretty good, but I'd like to know any other good anti-viruses.
For a response, the anti-virus you suggest must be in agreement with these three conditions:
1: It must be free
2: It cannot be a 30 day trial or anything. AVG Free has no expiration date, and neither should your suggestion. However, if the free version will last up to at the very least six months, I'll aceept that.
3: It must be legal and safe to download. I'm not downloading anything illegal or from an unsafe website.

Thanks for your help!

[DumbassDude]

Mcafee.

There is nothing wrong with it, it works perfectly. Fuck off.

[Diddy]

Avast antivirus works and has worked great for me!

[chainsawmurderer53]

AVG is probably the best you can do if you want to keep it legal. Make sure you never let Norton on your computer. It sl;ows things down so damn much.

[Matt1010]

AVG and Search and Destroy bot

[Ismael92]

Check out the computer hospital, there's a lot of useful information about free software in the first posts.

[Da-Master-of-Puppets]

ZoneAlarm.

It's good because it never allows any program or anything to run without first asking you with a little pop-up window where you can tell it to allow or deny the program from performing certain actions. For example I sometimes get a window saying something is trying to do something in System 32, so I deny it. It also does regular scans about once a week that don't slow down my PC at all. I like it because most anti-virus programs just block things automatically but ZoneAlarm asks you just in case you actually wanted that action to happen.

[Whiteandanime]

AVG and ''Malware: Search and Destroy''

[HungarianSupermarket]

At 10/12/09 12:26 PM, chainsawmurderer53 wrote: Make sure you never let Norton on your computer. It sl;ows things down so damn much.

Why you should never install Norton.

[XxRobJohnsonxX]

The best, completely free antivirus is a good head on your shoulders.
Don't download viruses.
If, for whatever reason, you do accidentally or unintentionally download one.... ffs don't run it.
They cannot infect you if you do not run them.

I never install an antivirus program on my machines because of the cpu usage.
Believe it or not, but McAfee, AVG, and Norton all slow down your computer quite a bit with running process trees (sometimes more than spyware would).

If your computer does not already have herpes and has a clean bill of health I would suggest just not download harmful shit...

If you INSIST on installing some sort of anti-virus software....
Choose an antivirus that does not want to run all the time, wants to control everything you do, and/or performs scheduled scans automatically (or, if you can toggle settings somewhere... give it the least amount of responsibility). That way, you can scan when you want, without suffering the vital cpu usage.

YOU are the key to your computer running smoothly and efficiently!

[Purplefunk]

At 10/12/09 12:36 PM, HungarianSupermarket wrote:

At 10/12/09 12:26 PM, chainsawmurderer53 wrote: Make sure you never let Norton on your computer. It sl;ows things down so damn much.

Why you should never install Norton.

Please stop going to encyclopedia fagmatica.

[TiredPaperBoy]

At 10/12/09 12:24 PM, DumbassDude wrote: Mcafee.

There is nothing wrong with it, it works perfectly. Fuck off.

I prefer to have control of my computer but I guess it people can get along with it.

[Lamar537]

I recommend Avast. It's free, although you have to give them your email so they can send you a registration code. It's never failed me and kept my computer free of viruses. Another good one I heard was MalwareBytes. Never looked that one up, I don't know if it's free or not.

[UnknownFear]

I'm currently using Comodo Internet Security. It has a firewall plus anti-virus software so it has two programs in one. Seems to be doing it's job.

[Diddy]

Norton is definitely the worst AV evar

[citricsquid]

common sense

[Jerich0]

What is this "Buy" you speak of?

[xSleekx]

At 10/12/09 01:08 PM, Diddy wrote: Norton is definitely the worst AV evar

I'd sooo like know why is this.

[xSleekx]

At 10/12/09 01:13 PM, Jerich0 wrote: What is this "Buy" you speak of?

Two of the worst things you can torrent are; any OS, like Windows or any antivirus software. I'm not even going to explain why.

[Rockyusa]

I use avg free. Considering i am not the admin of my household computer (>.>) i always get an "access denied" pop-up when i try to delete a virus.

[newgeneral]

AVAST HOME EDITON(FREE)

Registry key have to be acquired by registering your product for FREE and then renewing your registry key every year or so.

[JKMonkey]

At 10/12/09 12:25 PM, Diddy wrote: Avast antivirus works and has worked great for me!

^^ same here, the free version works so well ive never even bought the suite.

[Eclipse914]

SUPERAntispyware is awesome if you ask me, and its free.

[Darth-Zanuha]

Avast. It is a 60-day trial, but you can just uninstall it and reinstall when the trial period ends, and you can keep using it. I have used it for many years now for free.

[YeOldeSierra]

I suggest you use AVG as your anti virus. If you're looking an anti malware program as well, I recommend you look on Download (http://www.download.com) for MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. Oh, and Download is completely safe. It's owned by Cnet, and I really recommend you download it.

I also suggest you download ThreatFire (http://www.threatfire.com). It's free, but like MalwareBytes, there's also a paid version.

[Kain-Ceverus]

I'm a fan of COMODO. I was a beta tester and honestly have yet to find something better for free, or paid.

[TheT3Ddy]

AVG is probably the best free anti-virus available