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What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

Posted by timothy on 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?"

3 of 896 comments (clear)

  1. Install a linux of some sort by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Try Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS or OpenSuse or Fedora or any of the others... unless your software (and wallet) already got locked into Microsoft...

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  2. I use VirusX by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I also use an Amiga, so that's probably not helpful for you.

    Spybot Search & Destroy does a good job of protecting not only your browser (makes it immune) and adware, but also cleans up viruses.

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  3. Ubuntu by SgtChaireBourne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ubuntu

    Nuff sed

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    Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.