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What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?
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?"
Amen brother. Ubuntu 9.10 is an awesome windows replacement. I silently switched my wife's laptop to it 4 weeks ago and she is happy as a clam. Wine install was brain-dead easy. office 2003 runs on it perfectly, and IE6 installed well for her to upload tax info to the state and feds.
She's an accountant and only uses Excel for spreadsheets that wont open in OO.o
Honestly there is no reason to not switch away from windows and it's virus/spyware riddled existence for a bulk of the people out there.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Me too!
Better than Avast is Linux or OSX. The advantage of Linux over OSX is you don't have to buy a new computer, and you can run your Windows apps under Wine or, better yet, make it dual-boot and disable networking on the Windows side.
Viruses? I only see viruses when I'm cleaning out friends' Windows machines. Nobody else gets viruses.
Free Martian Whores!
The only thing you have to deal with is a daily ad that you can dismiss by hitting OK and it won't pop up for another 24 hours.
So... it's adware. That's what I'm trying to get rid of.
I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.