Best free antivirus software?

[DaBeeeenster]

Other than AVG, does anyone have any other recommendations?

[oyster]

I use Avast. Not sure whether I'd wholeheartedly recommend it, though, as it seems to give more false positives than Norton 2k2, which I used to use. On the plus side, it hasn't made my PC any (more) unstable.

[edit] that link seems to be down - try http://www.avast.com instead.

[Moby-Dick]

Avast was ok apart from the whole noise thing

did seem to be free - was nagging that I needed to buy it after 60 days , do it got uninstalled and AVG went back on.

In retrospect I probably got the wrong version.

dont pandasoft do one ?

[Captain Fizz]

Panda's one seems to be good. Unsure if it was only for a limited time they did the free one or not.

Kaspersky is meant to be one of the best free ones.

[ekundo]

none of them are anything on the ones you buy, definatly worth getting a proper one

[stytagm]

I've been using AntiVir for about two years, and I've never had a single problem (although I also run ad-aware). It's german made, so sometime the help pages don't get translated, but it's free, updated at least once a day, and has never let me down.

find it at www.free-av.com

[Moonshade]

I'm currently running Ad-aware and it works very good I think or there is Spyware boot and destroy, which is also good. I'm using both since sometimes Sypware finds stuff that ad-aware doesn't.

[myth]

I'm currently running Ad-aware and it works very good I think or there is Spyware boot and destroy, which is also good. I'm using both since sometimes Sypware finds stuff that ad-aware doesn't.

Anti virus software... However I use AVG + Webroots spy sweeper!

[ballon18s]

I would go with ZenOK Free Antivirus. It has very low overhead works very well and so far has been bulletproof. Not that I have ever been infected with any viruses but since I'm a IT guy I would be embarrassed if I did get caught.

[Phage]

Woah - Resurrection record ?

[quackers]

well since it's been resurrected, I'm going with a Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes combo

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Avast has a mode which talks to you in pirate!

[watercooled]

Wow how did you even find this thread to spam on it? I thought I thread like 6 years old would be in the archives?

[MSIC]

Wow - I was reading the first few, thinking 'why no MSE'?
LOL.

This thread to be re-opened in 2018 please...... Zzzzzz

[freakyshadows]

i vote for AVG, new version recently updated.

Tried others and wasnt impressed, AVG is ye olde faithful!

[soddit112]

Avast Free 5.1, good stuff

epic necro, btw