The 3 best freeware proggies seem to be.................
avast! 4 Home Edition
www.avast.com
Windows Spiffy-looking avast! notifies you by e-mail or IM if it
catches a virus. You can't schedule scans, but its recovery database
can help if a virus damages your files.
Read our full review of avast! 4 Home Edition.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
free.grisoft.com
Windows Its control center is awkward, but AVG scans files on demand,
upon access, on a schedule, and in e-mail. Its rescue disks will help
you recover from disaster.
Read our full review of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.
Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic
www.free-av.com
Windows AntiVir scans files on demand, upon access, and on a schedule;
it doesn't scan e-mail attachments until they're saved, but it does go
to work on rootkits. It's especially good at coexisting with other
security software. Like most good AV software, it has the Virus
Bulletin's VB100% award and certification for virus detection from
ICSA Labs.
Read our full review of Avira AntiVir Premium Security Suite.
On Jun 21, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Winterlight wrote:
what I really need is a all in one. ZoneAlarm is getting awfully
annoying. I am thinking about COMODO, anybody use it?
At 02:04 PM 6/21/2009, you wrote:
Malware Bytes is also good, and still free......
MS's new freeware "Morro" anti-virus is also getting pretty good
reviews, but is still only in beta...........
On Jun 21, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
AVG, OutPOST, and Spybot S+D
*OutPOST just released a new version for free after letting it hang
in the wind for years. (AVG seems to have solved their recent
problems,
but I left first...)
Rick Glazier
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