Best free virus protection?

United States
May 1, 2010 12:01am CST
A few weeks ago, my computer got a virus, that's why I was not active on mylot. My virus protection, macafee would not scan beyond 8%, and Avast seemed to have dissapeared. What is the best free virus protection that you use? Not including avast, because it was gone when the virus struck. (BTW, my computer is ok now, I wiped the hard drive.)
7 responses
ballahsi
@ballahsi (1)
• Taiwan
2 May 10
Macafee made a mistake recently and they weren't able to scan the new viruses. This caused many computers worldwide to get hit by viruses.
Phantom866
@Phantom866 (254)
• United States
2 May 10
so what you're saying, is that anyone with Macafee got a virus because some one hacked the server? or that the Macafee antivirus just stopped working because of a bug in a patch?
Xes210
@Xes210 (294)
• Australia
5 May 10
The best free virus protection is AVG free its easy to install and does a great job of keeping your computer free of viruses
rizzu87
@rizzu87 (860)
• Malaysia
4 May 10
You can use AVG free version. I am using this software and its trouble free. Go to filehippodotcom and download the free version of this great software. Dont forget to update and scan the computer once its ready and updated
topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
1 May 10
Hello Phantom ! No antivirus is infallible and an antivirus is not enough : you need also a firewall. I am satisfied with Avira free and Comodo firewall and... XF-Prot running from a Linux bootable Live CD (F-Prot is commercial under Windows but free for personal use under Linux) to scan my Windows disks and remove trojans and virus not seen by Avira. Have a nice day.
abhishek16
@abhishek16 (8)
• India
1 May 10
i think use antivirus and deep freeze kaspersky is better for internet users use kaspersky pure ....
nidhinswathi
@nidhinswathi (87)
• India
4 May 10
the best antivirua is kasperacy. i am using it . it will catch all the viruses that your computeris affected.
dark_joev
@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
1 May 10
I got away from Windows and now use Ubuntu which seems to not have the virus problem that Windows has. It is a really good switch I found. I have been using Ubuntu for about 2 years now and would never go back. Ubuntu/Linux is a really secure OS so your don't have the Virus problem to begin with. Just thought I would share that. So if you are going to stay with Windows I would say you need the following Free Programs! Spybot Search & Destroy Adaware For anti virus I would go with an open source one because they are free. Also they have a really good community behind them in the Windows market. There is also a program made by Trend Micro House Call that I use to fix my friends Windows PC's that get infected. It works almost all the time. There is also programs that they sell. They are NOT CHEAP but worth the money. I use to have a server on my network that would handle the viruses and other things that would try to infect my computers on my network. Don't need to deal with that since I made the Switch to running Open Source Ubuntu on all of my computers. Linux also has a lot of things going for it... check out here if you are interested. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus