What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @06:43AM from the is-clamav-no-longer-good? dept.

Techman83 writes "After years of changing between AVG Free + Avast, it's coming time to find a new free alternative for friends/relatives who run Windows. AVG and Avast have been quite good, but are starting to bloat out in size, and also becoming very misleading. Avast recently auto updated from 4.8 to 5 and now requires you to register (even for the free version) and both are making it harder to actually find the free version. Is this the end of reasonable free antivirus, or is there another product I can entrust to keep the 'my computer's doing weird things' calls to a minimum?"

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Re:Microsoft by Nathrael · 2010-03-18 08:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nope, you're wrong. Virii is the Latin plural which has established itself as the plural for computer virii (at least it has in the scene), while viruses is used for their biological counterparts.

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