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From your opinion, what are the best "Free" AntiViruses?

Oct 21, 2014 11:11AM PDT

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I just got my laptop and i need to ask you fellow posters what you guys think is the best antivirus.

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There Are Links To Such Saved At The Top Of This Forum
Oct 21, 2014 12:16PM PDT

In the "Welcome to S,V, & S forum; Security Tools and Removal Resources" thread, there are specific AV programs listed that are free. The link to that post is below.. I've used Avast, Avira, AVG, and the older ClamWin. I like the first three and tend to use Avira on many of my customer's machines, but the others are good as well.

http://forums.cnet.com/7726-6132_102-2435089.html

As to one location where you can read about the independent benchmark tests for various antivirus programs, see the link below:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparatives-reviews/

Hope this helps.

Grif

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How to measure "best?"
Oct 21, 2014 11:14AM PDT

There are benchmark articles out there so NOD32 continues to win at its category. Not one swept all categories so wouldn't you have to pick what matters to you?
Bob

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Re:There are benchmark articles out there so NOD32 continues
Oct 21, 2014 11:40AM PDT

True. Perhaps, looking for a light Antivirus and a very good one that actually finds the viruses .

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The thing is, malware is not a virus.
Oct 21, 2014 12:44PM PDT

And today I'm finding folk that won't differentiate one from the other. This is why we use other scanners to look for the ad/spy/malware.

There is no perfect finds it all app today. And no sign it will happen soon.
Bob

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Antivirus
Nov 4, 2014 7:45PM PST

Whichever you use, see that it isn't heavy on your system. Panda & Comodo are both too heavy and slow down the system a lot. Give a shot to Kaspersky. Its pretty good.