What is the best free antivirus software around? The only one I can think of is Microsoft Security Essentials, but I'd like to hear more about other free ones.

Avira , AVG, Avast just to a name a few
Personally i use Avira, no complaint from me.

+1 for avira, used on all my machines and stable

That's one of em....avast, avira, avg all does good work....for good detection rate, avira does well..avg and avast does detection and removal well

There are many free antivirus around. You can try using Avast free edition as well as it is quite light. If you feel the overall protection is not good, you can install Comodo Firewall on top of your antivirus as Comodo can give a solid protection. They were free after all.

I use MSE for all my machine. Why? Coz its free
AVG, Avast or Avira will expired in one year time(free edition), dunno can renew license after that or not~

avast, panda, avira

Vote for comodo internet security. Better then antivirus alone. BTW there is no best av only highest detection rate. Most important is free hehe

This post has been edited by wkkm007: Jul 8 2011, 01:04 AM

U can renew license after 1 year for Avira and Avast, AVG?? MSE detection rate is low, however it do not use lot resources..

avast, avg, avira , microsoft security essential

Avast Free(More like a security suite without the firewall) and Panda Cloud

This post has been edited by Eugene91: Jul 13 2011, 06:50 PM

I would recommend Avast, been using it for about 4-5 years now.

avast user too. You should really try version 6.

i would prefer Comodo Internet Security. If antivirus alone,Comodo also got. + its free.

avast or avira..both quiet ok for free product..

AVIRA no doubt.... have been using nod32,avast,avg,karspersky but stays as avira user for years

IMO avast is the best. never fail me before(just make sure you update the database)

i remember using avast free version b4
its kinda annoying when it suddenly detect a virus
it made alarm like sound with a nuclear radiation logo

I use MSE atm.

Used to use AVG/Avira/Avast.

Avast was just...weird.
AVG was overrated then and started to feel unreliable.
Avira....I feel they have a good shield/real-time protection system but their virus cleaning system suck balls. <-- Caught a few diff type of virus/worms [ofc not the ordinary ones] and it couldn't get rid of it.

I feel MSE is alright.

Avast definitely. Just remember to turn off the sound once installed- to get rid of those alarm sounds

Microsoft Security Essential
It's so light & free
I used it on my netbook
never facing any problem

Right now, I'm using Avira

anyone tried the china version antivirus?

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Added on September 5, 2011, 11:24 pmanyone tried the china version antivirus?

This post has been edited by snigapoe: Sep 5 2011, 11:24 PM

i would say avast for free ver, norton for paid ver

got meh? what are their names?

sounds familiar,izit called 360 thingy with green logo

This post has been edited by deyamato: Sep 12 2011, 03:15 PM

yeah, 360. Quite lightweight though

yeah that's the one i'm trying to quote

its in chinese ..dun understand

well, I do but reading chinese is quite annoying for me

but is it any good?

my dad likes it but I haven't tried it yet.

Microsoft Security Essential or avast free edition

using Microsoft Security Essentials before i format my computer. now using avast free..so far so good, the person who helped me to reformat my computer installed the 360 thingy for me, which is in chinese. my chinese sucks so i change to avast (everytime got pop-up from the 360 dono what it's toking about ==)

Ads is the only way of them to make money(since its free) so if you use it, you have to bear with it.

Avira has been slacking lately. They were good. And now they start to include web based protection as an add on after you install it. Its is surprisingly slower than before they had the web protection thing.

The chinese 360 protection is actually developed by Kingsoft in China. Supposed to be the best antivirus in China. It works very well if u are into video clients like PPS, QVOD and such. Because the AV will not treat those software as malware like most USA ones does. But the thing is, i still do not trust software coming from China simply because their goverment plants monitoring codes inside every software.

I'm starting to use Avast now. It has improved a lot since 3 versions ago. The last ones were a little buggy IMHO.

AVG is still not on my recommended list. So is MSE. Though they work just ok. One software that i can never live without is MalwareBytes. Antivirus or not, this one makes my life a lot easier.

my experience on free antivirus program are:

1. AVG Free
2. Sophos
3. Norton (trier edition)?
4. Avast
5. MSE
6. AVIRA

first place go to....

AVIRA!!!

LAST Place go to....

Sophos

cannot compare with the premium one lah
especially internet security version
of coz there a lot more good than this free one

But Comodo offer a free version of Comodo Internet Security 2011
i want to try it first..hehehe

This post has been edited by diadokmai: Sep 29 2011, 12:42 PM

just switched from norton 2011(expired, no $ renew) to try out MSE, surprisingly lightweight and simple.

test for a month and see 1st.

I am using AVG an its quite good