Comments on: Q&A: Antivirus software?

By: rentech68

rentech68 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:20:05 +0000

The most widely used free anti-virus software is AVG from Grisoft which makes money by selling virus protection to small businesses. To promote this, it offers domestic users a very professional free version which allows regular updates.

By: cpocollins

cpocollins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:48:14 +0000

You may want to give AVAST anti-virus a try. I have heard good things about it, and it seems to work well.

By: Joan H

Joan H — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:24:29 +0000

I am most of my email friends use it also. I had a Norton took it off and put on the AVG. I recently tried a trial of the Norton 360, left it on one day. AVG has a good Anti-spyware program. It took out some malware, that I could not get out of my computer, with anything else. Use the AVG free antivirus and try the AVG Antispy also, you will be suprised what you find, I bet.

By: davidis99

davidis99 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:17:26 +0000

AVG provides good realtime virus protection, but you may want to have one addition antivirus program installed to provide a second scanner. BitDefender offers a free version that does not provide realtime virus protection, but will provide you with a good second scanning engine to keep your PC virus free. (http://www.bitdefender.com)