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Offline Enigmatic Entity

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What's the best -free- antiviral software?
on: March 19, 2009, 10:25:15 pm
According to Google,
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 comes up first. I also know that there's AVG, AOL Active Virus Shield, Avast!, Avira, (anything else starting with 'a' ;) ) and some crap ones. Which is the best?
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #1 on: March 19, 2009, 10:37:12 pm
Spyware doctor doesn't remove everything. I use these three: MalwareBytes Anti Malware, AVG Free edition (for link scanning), and the said Spyware doctor.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #2 on: March 19, 2009, 10:56:07 pm
AVG Free and MalwareBytes seems to be the best duo going right now.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #3 on: March 19, 2009, 11:46:21 pm
Quote from: IceFire on March 19, 2009, 10:56:07 pm
AVG Free and MalwareBytes seems to be the best duo going right now.

It's worth noting however, the AVG will cause considerable slowdown unless its resident shield is deactivated. As I said, I only use AVG for its link scanning feature. That's not to say I exactly recommend turning off the resident shield either. It's up to you.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #4 on: March 20, 2009, 12:11:44 am
Avast and MalwareBytes.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #5 on: March 20, 2009, 01:56:39 am
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #6 on: March 20, 2009, 02:02:55 am
Vote for Avast!Home Edition from me. As far as spyware/adware/malware probes and removal tools go, caution and common sense is your best weapon if you have any... then there are good ol' Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware. Those have been largely sufficient for me, in addition to Comodo as soft firewall.

How does MalwareBytes compare to Spybot and Ad-Aware?
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #7 on: March 20, 2009, 02:16:10 am
I believe Avast!, AVG and/or Avira are the best of the lot.

Alternatively, buy a Mac.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #8 on: March 20, 2009, 02:27:45 am
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #9 on: March 20, 2009, 02:35:36 am
Quote from: Androgeos Exeunt on March 20, 2009, 02:16:10 am
Alternatively, buy a Mac.
It'd be cheaper to install linux on current computer instead. Macs are overrated and I do own a Macbook.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #10 on: March 20, 2009, 02:42:01 am
Take it in jest, Fury. ;)

Avast!, AVG and Avira are your best bet for very good, free antivirus programs. If you're looking for the best, I think it's a toss-up between these three.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #11 on: March 20, 2009, 03:02:47 am
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #12 on: March 21, 2009, 06:23:13 pm
Anyone know any good ones that can be used with 64 bit version of vista? Currently using AVG but not entirely convinced by it
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #13 on: March 22, 2009, 01:46:57 pm
Quote from: Demitri on March 21, 2009, 06:23:13 pm
Anyone know any good ones that can be used with 64 bit version of vista? Currently using AVG but not entirely convinced by it
Quote from: Fury on March 20, 2009, 12:11:44 am
Avast and MalwareBytes.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #14 on: March 22, 2009, 03:05:26 pm
MalwareBytes apparently only works with 32bit version. So it says when i went to download it.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #15 on: March 23, 2009, 12:07:37 am
Heh, interesting considering it worked fine on my 64-bit Vista when I tried it several months back. Avast is plenty enough protection however.
 

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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #16 on: March 23, 2009, 12:09:16 am
I use Avira AntiVir.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #17 on: March 23, 2009, 12:19:27 am
I've stuck with ClamWin. No active priority realtime scanning, but that means there is little to no overhead unless I am scanning, so less chance that it will interrupt with what I am doing.

WinPooch on top of it works pretty well and they both interoperate and configure well with each other. ClamWin is a Windows Port of ClamAV which is available for Linux and BSD.
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #18 on: March 23, 2009, 06:17:50 am
Sometimes I wonder if antivirus software is overrated. :\ Mine expired on my laptop just before I broke the screen, and then I plugged it into an old monitor and ran it with just the microsoft firewall for a year with no problems (until the adapter cable died)...

I've been too lazy to install anything my on mac, and still nothing, but it is a mac... you have to work hard to find a trojan for it. I turned off the firewall. :\
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Re: What's the best -free- antiviral software?
Reply #19 on: March 23, 2009, 07:17:05 am
It is overrated because the best anti-virus is common sense regardless of what OS you're running.
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