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poet13 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: Free Virus and Adware software.

I use Ad-Aware, and V3.

Ad-Aware is pretty good.
V3 sucks butt.

What is the best FREE, and I mean totally FREEE, not just for thirty days, virus scanning software available online?

I know there are a bunch that give you a trial offer.....and I know there are bunch, but I have tried a few, and they SUCK.

Anyone?

NeonRain · Joined: 30 Jan 2007

Try AVG. Just google it and go from there, totally free and has worked for me so far. Don't know any more technical details Smile

I was advised by a much more savvy friend to use it and it works.

gsxr750r · Joined: 29 Jan 2007

I am more of a fan of avast!

I have run both AVG and Avast, and Avast has a firewall and cleans the viruses better, IMHO.

www.avast.com

Look for the free home edition

poet13 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:04 am Post subject:

AVG just picked up 12 trojans.
now let's try Avast....

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

I just starting using avast... new lappy with vista, and my old standby antivir isnt vista compliant yet. I used antivir for several years with no issues, great free antivirus. So far, so good with avast free home edition though.

Free spyware choices of mine are adaware/ spyware blaster/ spyware search and destroy.

poet13 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:11 am Post subject:

avast just picked up a butt load of stuff, but I have no idea what cause it ran on startup.

I will install and run the others too.

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

poet13 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

Damn. Had no idea. Thanks. Guess I will have to choose the top three, or at least the ones that allow me to configure access and allowwance.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

another vote for avg

rubric · Joined: 28 Oct 2006 Location: Pongdongfongyong

[/quote]avast just picked up a butt load of stuff, but I have no idea what cause it ran on startup.

I will install and run the others too.[quote]

Goodbye. It was nice knowing you for this short while.......................goodbye. See you after the new OS reinstallation.

corroonb · Joined: 04 Aug 2006

I find that Avast is better than AVG. Mabye my system is very secure but using AVG, I have never detected any viruses, trojans or worms and this is with both the pro and free versions. Both are miles better than McAfee or Norton.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

I had a brush with avast didn't like it at all. When it detected a virus it couldn't remove it whilest AVG could..

I don't even run a antivirus on my laptop. Not a single virus prob yet.

I don't download untrusted software. Best anti-virus is "you"

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

gsxr750r · Joined: 29 Jan 2007

Avast does one "boot scan" the first time you run it (in case you tell it not to).

This is very important, because it kills boot viruses before windows gets a chance to load.

I have used Avast for over 3 years.

I recently went back to Avast, after using AVG for about 6 months. The reason for the switch was that when AVG does find something, it isn't good at getting rid of it. Often, you are referred to their website, where you must download additional software to finish the job. I didn't like that.