anti virus

[yannick12]

what is the best free anti virus?

[Oshino Shinobu]

I personally use a mix between Windows Defender, Malwarebytes (for system scans) and common sense. 

[Blackhole890]

1 minute ago, Vape_lord said:

what is the best free anti virus?

depends, if you want security, i would recommend AVAST but if you wanna something light, go for Panda free anti-virus but usually with the firewall you will be fine.

[WereCat]

I use Malwarebytes and Spybot 2.

[tlink]

avira was rated best by toms hardware, its lightweight but does sometimes give an anoying pop up about buying stuff (never during gaming or movies though). i use it with malwarebytes. if you want a lot of control get comodo. but thats really advanced.

[tiberiusmoon5]

Alot of anti virus companies are stopping there freeware versions (like AVG) since win 10 comes with antivirus,

so windows defender is the best,

malwarebytes is antimalware not a antivirus,

I personally dont use malwarebytes just because i am careful when installing programs and i know windows layout enough to remove malware myself.

I use Ccleaner and windows defender to keep my system running fine,

[AlphaGamer46]

I use AVG for my real-time because I find that Windows Defender just doesn't get everything, and to get everything else, I run Malwarebytes once every few months, and I need to get my Spybot working again.

 

I only recommend Windows Defender if you don't do a lot of potentially harmful downloading.

[LukeS]

In America, Comcast/Xfinity has free Norton Security Virus if you use that service provider. AT&T Gives free McGaffee. I don't know what Frontier or some of the other companies use. That said, I'd buy anti-virus software, and not trust any of the "Free" Programs (excluding Windows Defender, but not that if you do not have the latest version of Windows, you have a higher chance of a virus due to Windows being such an easy platform to hack). That said, if you don't think you'll be on sketchy websites, I'd just stick with Windows Defender. I can't think of a time in my life when I've not used Norton though, since it has some other uses such as a file clean up in the software, and since they specialize in virus-protection, they have to be responsible, where as Microsoft doesn't need to be.

 

Hope this helps,

-LukeS

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[Kirky2k15]

I used AVG for years but stopped using it a few months backs when it kept annoying me with pop up ads trying to get me to upgrade to pro so now I use AVAST but that is getting just as bad in the pop ups ads department

[Ryujin2003]

Depending on where you live and what you do, most universities and other schools give free Antivirus  (paid versions) because of bulk license agreements.

I would recommend AVG or Kaspersky. Malwarebytes is very good. Yes they are very well known for anti-malware/adware, but they do also do anti-virus.

Spy Bot Search and Destroy is awesome, and I recommend this as well.

 

I would stay clear away from Avast. I have not had anything good happen with that company