Do you know any good Anti-Virus Softwares that are free that cover everything like Viruses, Spyware etc. If So, What is it?
Anti-Virus Software?
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I'm using Comodo on my desktop and it seems to work ok. (I also have separate antispyware software that I use though)
That can be found here
http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-internet-security.php.
That can be found here
http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-security/free-internet-security.php.
When I used Windows, I was never a fan of the all-in-one security suites. But a combination of AVG Antivirus, Zone Alarm, and Spybot seemed to keep me safe.
These days I run OSX with LittleSnitch -- and that seems to do the job. Although viruses and spyware are rare on OSX, if strange things start happening, LittleSnitch will sound the alarm.
Good luck,
Z
These days I run OSX with LittleSnitch -- and that seems to do the job. Although viruses and spyware are rare on OSX, if strange things start happening, LittleSnitch will sound the alarm.
Good luck,
Z
TheLonelySquire
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I believe Panda Cloud won the award for best free software of this type. Give it a look.
This is exactly the software I use on all three of my "home" systems and several I've built for friends. All of this software is readily available for free, just takes some digging through a few websites. Works really well and I've not had one problem while using this trio.
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Amaris
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For years I have used AntiVir (Avira). It is completely free, lighter on resources than most anti-virus programs, and very effective.
You can get it here: Avira AntiVir Free
You can get it here: Avira AntiVir Free
I run that on one of my other systems. There was a slight hiccup at first with AVG version 9 and a recent edition of Zone Alarm, but they got it fixed quickly enough
This is what I use too, plus CCleaner to keep the registry tidy. I'm no tech-head, so can't comment on how good these applications actually are, but they seem to do the trick for me.
I've been giving Microsoft Security Essentials a test-run for the past month or so. So far it's worked beautifully on my Win7 machine, although it has turned up what I think are false positives on files downloaded from legitimate websites.
Avira Anti-Vir is my regular AV software of choice.
Avira Anti-Vir is my regular AV software of choice.
I like Norton, myself.
used to use avg a while back it was pretty good then six months ago which is a free one then started using norton which is ok but not free
I use a combination of avg and spybot, plus an anti-malware program. I tried Panda Cloud awhile back, but didn't care for it. Wasn't as user friendly and it didn't allow of the spyware programs to be used.
I'm partial to Avast! ( www.avast.com) It's free for personal use and consistantly ranks high in side by side comparisons with other products.
It's user interface sometimes takes a few raps, but it gets consistantly higher marks than Comodo's Internet Security Suite (They've bundled their firewall, malware, and A/V recently) in detection of threats.
It's user interface sometimes takes a few raps, but it gets consistantly higher marks than Comodo's Internet Security Suite (They've bundled their firewall, malware, and A/V recently) in detection of threats.
Needing to surf for porn trumps common sense.
J
Jetfire
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I use a combo of AVG, Spybot: Search and Destroy, and Ad-aware. Also, I run a scan with Malbyte's Anti-Malware because there have been a couple times where it has tracked down something that's slipped past the above 3. This set up has done me pretty well.
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