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I have Avira, it's free and it works fine i guess. What do you use and why?

Avast

all free AV are good until yr pc get infected

AVG

Lithium wrote:all free AV are good until yr pc get infected

No antivirus free or not is 100 % bulletproof. Most times user itself are responseble for infection, because of wrong PC/MAC usage.

I don't think any AV is "bulletproof". That being said, what FREE AV do you think is the best, and why?

malewarbytes is rigorous. AVG would come next. It depends what you mean by 'free' though because i can get a lot of software 'for free'.
They are all good, its just the user that doesn't bother to update or scan regularly

I have malware bytes but as far as i know its not an AV, please correct me if i'm wrong.

Malx wrote:I don't think any AV is "bulletproof". That being said, what FREE AV do you think is the best, and why?

If u google it u will found out that this are in front but rated differently on different sites:
- Avast
- AVG
- Avira
- Comodo
- Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 ||U need Windows Licence to get it cracked Windows doesn't work

I used Avira 1 year ago and didnt like ADS and pop-ups so i switched to Avast with which currently happy

What i like in Avast:
- Has 7 different security
- Task bar Game Mode
- Task bar disable all security
- U can disable all ads
...


I suggest u pick one and see which makes u happy

Avast everytime


Offtopic but does anyone know how to totally remove Norton ? Uninstalled, deleted all files that can be found and the damn thing still pops up trying to scan and sell itself a year later. Norton the expensive virus that kills other viruses lol

I use a combo of AVG free and free malwarebytes

if u use free AV then u shall be careful visiting some sites or exe some cracked files also ist good to use internet sec soft for some more protection. the free av are all at the same lvl what makes them good is the resource consuming, user interaction and scan time.
from licensed i ve used symantec ce , sophos and kav, so far sophos is leading and from free ones the best are those who doesnt drain lot of memory and gives some info about threats.