What is a good free anti-virus app ?

jonwessel

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• Sep 3, 2005

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Plz don't say AVG, lol. I just downloaded that, the good news is that it found 5 infected files, the bad thing is that it couldn't do squat about them. WHat other anti-virus programs are there ?

 

RP Racing

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• Sep 3, 2005

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avast. i have it on 2 of 4 pc's. soon to be all 4.

www.avast.com

 

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dicecca112

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• Sep 3, 2005

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another vote for avast

 

Alchemy1

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• Sep 4, 2005

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Third for avast. I used to use AVG, but it started to act funky on my PC. So, I switched to avast and no problems. The only thing is, it seems to use more memory than AVG.

 

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• Sep 4, 2005

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I have tried AVG and Avast and found Avast to be the be best free virus scanner.

 

khiloa

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• Sep 4, 2005

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I have never used Avast (maybe I should) but I have been impressed when I have used ClamWin.

http://www.clamwin.com/

 

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• Sep 5, 2005

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I also vote for avast. It's great.

 

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• Sep 5, 2005

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Just because it can't do anything about the infected files does not mean it's not a great AV program... The files can/should probably just be deleted anyway.

I've tried both Avast and AVG, and I still prefer AVG. To each his own. Personally if I had some money burning a whole in my pocket, I'd probably buy NOD32.