What's the best free antivirus that can be downloaded off the internet?

@lenywp (1963)
Australia
April 22, 2007 1:01am CST
I'm looking for a good quality antivirus that can be downloaded off the internet. What is the best one?
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12 responses
@gastly (296)
• India
22 Apr 07
You can get Avast or AVG Antivirus for free off the internet. Both are very good at catching viruses. http://www.avast.com/ -- Avast http://free.grisoft.com/avg -- AVG
• Philippines
22 Apr 07
I think that it is norton. I think it is free because I use this frequently whenever I need a new set of PC.
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@gastly (296)
• India
22 Apr 07
Hi hanbri2003! You said that Norton is free. Well Norton is not at all free, its the worst antivirus I have ever (I mean EVER) come across in my life! So get a good free one like avast or avg.
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@glf1980 (222)
• Italy
23 Apr 07
No Norton!! Never!! The worst. better Avast...Try it!
@vivek2006 (1418)
• India
1 May 07
AVG is the best free antivirus that can be downloaded off the internet free of cost. I've used it for a long time and fully satisfied with it. You can also upgrade to a premium version at some cost but free AVG is very good as well with no big limitations. Its quite light too and will even work well with computers having less RAM. So all one can say is AVG is the best.
• India
1 May 07
i am using AVG and am fully satisfied with it. you could try www.phazeddl.com and search for AVG. you can get whatever you want there.
@ashik729 (29)
• India
1 May 07
If you want a free antivirus, I would suggest AVG.. It doesn't slow your system down like some of the other antivirus programs... It gives you updates almost daily... I have also heard about avast, though I don't know much about it...
• Philippines
25 Sep 07
Hi lenywp! For free version antivirus, you could choose AVAST, AVG, and AVIRA. At this point of time, I am using Avira AntiVir Personal Classic Edition. This can be downloaded at their official website at www.free-av.com I have been using this for almost two years. Since using this software, I have never had problems at all with regards to the overall function and system performance of my machine. Otherwise, I am very impressed and satisfied with its performance. It updates regularly and this can be scheduled at your most convenient time. It is very light on resources. It does not eat a lot of memory. Hence, does not slow down your computer. It detects and deletes rootkits, worms, viruses, etc. Overall, it does its jobs pretty well. Hope this would help to you. Have a great day and GOD speed!
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@Michal51 (659)
• Germany
22 Apr 07
I would suggest AVAST as the best free antivirus.
@SACH4ISHA (1163)
• India
22 Apr 07
you can find nortun and avg free on most of the ocations but i feel node 32 is the best and if you want the source of the anti virus then send me a pm i will give you the link to download that full version with 100 yers subscription patch
• India
22 Apr 07
Undoubtedly AVG free edition is the best one can get on the internet. AVG has served me well for last one year and I have all words of praise for it. I deleted my Norton antivirus as it was slowing my system down and AVG was the best replacement.
@oslovibes (190)
• Greece
23 Apr 07
antivir is the lightest.give it a try and you will see. also it has no spyware/adware.
@boboman (18)
• Greece
22 Apr 07
i am satisfied with NOD 32
• India
23 Apr 07
I first used Norton as it expired I used avg free edition and i found a no. of viruses that norton hasn't detected and now i installed Avast and to my surprise i found some viruses that even avg couldn't detect. So i recommend u to use AVAST! as it is the BEST.