Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 22, 2006 @03:09AM from the protect-yerself dept.

iamjoltman writes "I've been looking to replace the McAfee anti-virus on my parent's XP machine. So, I've been looking at the three free anti-virus choices, AVG Free Edition, avast! Home Edition and AntiVir Personal Edition. I know there are other options, but I believe any others are only on-demand scanners, and that's not an option. So, what does the Slashdot crowd think is the best of these choices? Keep in mind, I'm only looking in anti-virus, I'll go elsewhere for firewall or malware protection."

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AVG by gowen · 2006-05-22 03:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

I like it. I've used commercial AV before, but the free AVG is as good, or better than those. And it can be set to auto-update and auto-scan.

I haven't used the other free ones; AVG has never given me a need to switch.

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