Best free Anti Virus software !!!????

Best free Anti Virus software

Well I'm probably wasting my time but it has to be Comodo for me. Provides full internet security. You're wasting your money if you pay for Norton or McAfee.

Then run scans with Comodo, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware regularly.

Don't want to? Your choice. Want guarantees? Then be careful where you surf.
 
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Another fan of AVAST here. Used it for some time and it works well.
 
PaulC said:
There are a minority of professionals who shun anti virus! Not sure what they do, but not for ever one!
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Hmm not sure I would sleep at night if I did that for my customers. You can of course get AV through your ISP or server on a business network. Marks (Biggirafe) probably more up on that then I am as I tend to work with small workgroup networks. Personally I would always have AV on every machine. In fact its the first thing I install on a PC when its out of the box.

Stop looking at porn everyone and you should be ok!
 
barryd said:
Hmm not sure I would sleep at night if I did that for my customers. You can of course get AV through your ISP or server on a business network. Marks (Biggirafe) probably more up on that then I am as I tend to work with small workgroup networks. Personally I would always have AV on every machine. In fact its the first thing I install on a PC when its out of the box.

Stop looking at porn everyone and you should be ok!
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Hi Barry, good advise but its free ;)

For us too AV is essential in the corporate environment, We do stop the majority of threats with EMail scanning on our servers before emails are accessed by users on the network and our firewall will stop/spot any attempts to access pc's via ports but the biggest issue we have is laptops that are used outside the network and then connected to the network. We now encourage laptops to connect to the depot networks via the radio network which puts the user on a seperate subdomain to the main network :)

To give people an idea of the issue its estimated that only 1% of emails that are in transit at any one time are real, I know at work over 250,000 emails are stopped at our email scanner each day as being suspect or spam :eek:

All very techy for the home user but browsing the internet should only need port 443 and port 80, port 110 and 25 is needed for email you can block all other ports on your firewall, If you use things like Skype and MSN then you will have to start opening ports on your computer, more ports open more places to be attacked. Therefore on our network we do not allow any of these types of program.

If people are downloading and using cracked programs from Torrent sites, very often not only do you get the program you wanted but a couple of other programs hidden that you did not want. If you use Torrent sites then you must check everything you download, you may save a few pounds getting a free program but if you give away your bank account details at the same time???, a recent cracked copy of windows 7 that was around would pass all your IP address and login details to the guy that cracked it and the remote desktop connection was turned on by default :cool: :eek::eek:

It is possible to survive without AV my home server has no antivirus as it slows machines down, don't open email attachments unless you were expecting them, Jokes are the worst for this. Don't go to websites that ask you to 'install' something before you can use the site :)

any AV software is better than none and some of the free ones are better than bad paid for ones. But its essential that you get updates every day. any AV is only as good as the last update.

:)
 
biggirafe said:
Hi Barry, good advise but its free
For us too AV is essential in the corporate environment, We do stop the majority of threats with EMail scanning on our servers before emails are accessed by users on the network and our firewall will stop/spot any attempts to access pc's via ports but the biggest issue we have is laptops that are used outside the network and then connected to the network. We now encourage laptops to connect to the depot networks via the radio network which puts the user on a seperate subdomain to the main network
To give people an idea of the issue its estimated that only 1% of emails that are in transit at any one time are real, I know at work over 250,000 emails are stopped at our email scanner each day as being suspect or spam All very techy for the home user but browsing the internet should only need port 443 and port 80, port 110 and 25 is needed for email you can block all other ports on your firewall, If you use things like Skype and MSN then you will have to start opening ports on your computer, more ports open more places to be attacked. Therefore on our network we do not allow any of these types of program.If people are downloading and using cracked programs from Torrent sites, very often not only do you get the program you wanted but a couple of other programs hidden that you did not want. If you use Torrent sites then you must check everything you download, you may save a few pounds getting a free program but if you give away your bank account details at the same time???, a recent cracked copy of windows 7 that was around would pass all your IP address and login details to the guy that cracked it and the remote desktop connection was turned on by default
It is possible to survive without AV my home server has no antivirus as it slows machines down, don't open email attachments unless you were expecting them, Jokes are the worst for this. Don't go to websites that ask you to 'install' something before you can use the site :)

any AV software is better than none and some of the free ones are better than bad paid for ones. But its essential that you get updates every day. any AV is only as good as the last update.

:)
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Never had you down for a techno geek,just goes to show never judge a book by its cover.:):D:);):rolleyes:Have a good weekend remember NO MORE WHISKEY.
 
bigboack said:
Never had you down for a techno geek,just goes to shoe never judge a book by its cover.:):D:);):rolleyes:Have a good weekend remember NO MORE WHISKEY.
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I don't class myself as a geek, I get paid for it geeks do it for fun, I also try not to do anything technical after 5.30 :D :D
 
biggirafe said:
I don't class myself as a geek, I get paid for it geeks do it for fun, I also try not to do anything technical after 5.30 :D :D
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Yours and Barryd's advice is most welcome.

In my mind nothing geeky about it, Some of us are not PC literate in terms of machine codes etc etc nor do we fully understand internet threats.

Jokes aside I have always found p2p sites eg limewire far more virulent than Alsations in gas Masks to keep the hound happy ;)

Thanks for the advice lads

Channa
 
Used AVG for years with no problems but it seemed to make my PC run slow. Switched to Avast as the latest AVG wouldn't work on W2k:eek:. Avast seems to be ok.
 
anti virus software

with any shadow of doubt use avast free and also put lavasoft adaware on too... ps i have been into and on the internet using this since the year dot any programs like norton are a rip off avg is painfully slow .. and when you down load files always virus check them!!
 
Do you need it ?

I did trow away Norton, after I discovered that 90% of this 'wonderfull program' is allready incorporated in Windows; it made ALL things slow down. :eek:
At home, I'm on the cable (Telenet in Belgium with all possible spamfighters,
virusblockers on the server etc...even .com mails are promtly discarged).
A while ago I took Avast; works fine but slows everything enervingly up -got rid of it at last.
I allways had Ad-aware: free, no problems and the only 'infections' I ever had were cookies.
All these 'great' virusprograms have one purpose: pay :rolleyes: (I wouldn't say rip-off, but it will not be far away from that :eek::rolleyes:)
 
Since migrating to Linux I find I don't need any antivirus software. :)
 
G4GMO said:
Since migrating to Linux I find I don't need any antivirus software. :)
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My Linux server is the same, no AV but beware as the takeup of MAC's and Linux increases the virus writers will have their eyes on us :D

In particular because Linux is open source I am very wary of using my Linux box for any 'Banking' related work and would advice that you never save any passwords in Firefox when run on Linux. Maybe a bit OTT but everyone has the source code for Linux which in my mind means zero security :eek:
 
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