Best Free Anti-Virus

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 11:56

I don't know what to try next. I saw this thread and that's why I opted for Avast. You bast@rds!

maestro_za · Post by **maestro_za** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:00

Rayne wrote:I don't know what to try next. I saw this thread and that's why I opted for Avast. You bast@rds!

Nod32 is an excellent program. Its not free though unless of course you use the trial version.

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:03

If you want a free anti virus program, go for AVG. I know many ppl wont agree with me on AVG, but thats the best one for me.

EDIT: I just went to the 1st page, i see alot of people agrees on AVG

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:06

I'm not so sure I'll be sticking with free AV's.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:10

MIA, AVG is useless. It's been proven time and time again that it sucks.

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:13

Why is it useless? I have never seen anyone or have any reason to believe its useless.

What's useless is Norton, really crappy AV program.

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:16

Tell me exactly why you say that please.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:17

MIA wrote:Why is it useless? I have never seen anyone or have any reason to believe its useless.

What's useless is Norton, really crappy AV program.

Norton isn't an AV program. It's random lines of code that some drunk dude spewed onto his keyboard one night while he was watching 7de Laan.

Resting at the bottom of the barrel were Kaspersky and eScan at nine percent, and AVG, which detected only eight percent of malicious software in addition to producing many false positives.

LINK

Sure, it's like 8 months old, but it's most certainly still valid.

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:19

Ah, probably because it hogs my computer like nothing on earth and the other reason, i dont like paying for something when i can get it for free.

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:19

DAE tell me your personal experience with Norton also please mate.

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:20

MIA wrote:Ah, probably because it hogs my computer like nothing on earth and the other reason, i dont like paying for something when i can get it for free.

Avast is a bigger resource hog than Norton.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:27

Rayne wrote:DAE tell me your personal experience with Norton also please mate.

I used Norton quite a few years ago. Hmmm... let me think... it was about... 6 or 7 years ago. It was really not the most pleasant experience. I had it running on a P3 733 with 64MB RAM (which happened to be quite a beast at the time) and Norton CHOWED RAM. It was so resource hungry. Along with that, it was no good at protecting my machine.

It may have improved since, but based on the opinions of most, it hasn't.

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:27

Yea, i had avast once... for about 10 min. Then it went bye bye.

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:29

NOD32 FTW

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:35

Well I need to find out what I can find out before I make a mistake again.

I used Norton 2007 a full year and never once encountered any problem though and 2008 is rated tops. Hence why I don't understand all the negative replies.

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:36

If i was still using windows, i'd just fork out and buy NOD32. I've only ever heard great things about it..

ZeroS · Post by **ZeroS** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:43

I've been running AVG for a few weeks and it seems fine though I haven't run a full pc scan since I installed as soon as McAfee expired so I wouldn't know about that.

But it isn't as seamless as McAfee was. So I'm gonna go for another, just too lazy to research for a free AV.
Norton.... oh the bad memories.

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 12:46

I dont really have problems with viruses... The odd 1 or 2 that i get from a LAN or friend gets picked up very quickly by AVG, so i really dont feel the need to switch to another AV program.

Post by **Stuart** » 18 Feb 2008, 13:00

Rayne wrote:Well I need to find out what I can find out before I make a mistake again.

I used Norton 2007 a full year and never once encountered any problem though and 2008 is rated tops. Hence why I don't understand all the negative replies.

Haven't read the entire thread, but Norton 2008 is supposedly a lot better than its predecessors. Still, whilst there are packages out there like Nod32 and Avast, I really can't see myself recommending Norton in any great hurry. But if you want to use it, the more power to you.

TheMartyr · Post by **TheMartyr** » 18 Feb 2008, 13:49

Nod32 is Killer

zoner · Post by **zoner** » 18 Feb 2008, 14:30

AVG = best of the FREE
NOD32 = best of the NOT FREE.

no contest

MIA · Post by **MIA** » 18 Feb 2008, 14:36

I must agree with you there zoner. My roomie from college has NOD32, i saw the power that program has.

Firestrm_ZA · Post by **Firestrm_ZA** » 22 Apr 2008, 15:10

KillerByte wrote:AVAST SLOW???!!!!

a) what you been smoking

b) what are you running? a 386???

I install Avarst onto every PC that I go near and I have NEVER had anyone tell me that they are having virus issues.

AVG is a piece of crap. its unreliable and i'd rather have no antivirus than have AVG on my PC. I reinstalled Vista the other day. first thing that went on was Avast.

i couldnt agree more.... AVAST>AVG but not NOD32

Firestrm_ZA · Post by **Firestrm_ZA** » 22 Apr 2008, 15:16

Rayne wrote:I don't know what to try next. I saw this thread and that's why I opted for Avast. You bast@rds!

so wat exactly put you off avast?

Rayne · Post by **Rayne** » 22 Apr 2008, 15:20

Avast IS slow! 40+ minutes to build it's database, lmao? I can scan my whole system 3 times with most if not all other products in such time. Stop being biased to freeware crap, it's free for a reason.

Damn fanboys measuring everything by the one thing they know.

I'll go without an AV before I install that rubbish again.