Which is the best free AV around?

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As the thread title says… I want a good free antivirus for my office PC… Should take few resources as i have a Venice 3000+..

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Avast Antivirus :slight_smile:

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AVG is also an good option, its quite light on the system too. I myself run it on my 3000 venice. But its not very effective, it could not detect the I DNT HATE MOZILLA! ORKUT IS BANNED!! virus :frowning:

I’m gonna shift to avast and see how effective it turns out to be..

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Outpost Pro Free
Comodo AntiVirusâ„¢ Software
avira Free with limited Options

Though as per my exprience Kaspersky is Top among avg, ZA & AVAST :slight_smile:

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+1 for Avast home edition…

or else NOD 32(dont know if its freeware)

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common sense :stuck_out_tongue:

but antivir comes close AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic - More than Security :stuck_out_tongue:

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That was not a virus but a kind of spyware, even NOD32 was not able to detect it.

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+1 for AVG. hv been using on my home pc for years. hardly any trouble so far. but, if you have sensitive data on ur office pc it might not be a good idea to have something like AVG. for that i’d prefer kaspersky.

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A couple of days back I was given a price of 350/- for Kaspersky Anti Virus (with one years liscence which is Re 1/- for each days use) by Gulbir of Prime… I think this price is as good as FREE … or very close to it !! :slight_smile:

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I am using AVG free since about 2 years. Never had a single bug. Works very cool on resources. :cool:

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Thanks for that easy… But i tried using the Kapersky latest edition few days back… It could be just me but i found my p2p speeds crashing a lot and system running relatively slow…

As for now i have downloaded avast… Will go to NP and buy a copy of kapersky in few days… Will try it again as loads of peeps are suggesting that… earlier i was using 6.0 and it was working fine…

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using AVG …has detected and cured a coupla viruses that manages to sneek thru pen drives …hardly dents sys performance

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The Kaspersky from Prime is ver 6 :slight_smile: Gulbir mentioned that he also had a 3 year liscence available but did not have a price for it at that time.

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I would also recommend AVG. I have been using it for over 2 years now without any issues.

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I’m also using the AVG Free Edition for over a year and without any problems. It worked great on XP and now on Vista also :blush: … I think it was one of the first Antivirus packages to be certified by MS as Vista compliant

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WHen you say for office pC are you referring to just for you or an office wide deployment ?

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+1 for AVG. Haven’t had a single virus attack for more than 2 years now. And consumes very less resources

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i’m using the AVG Free-Version.. n it’s good n all but yeah..
i just can’t update my virus signatures :unamused_face:
i even tried the ahem copy ..stil no luck..
all it says is.. update failed :S

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I had this problem last year and I uninstalled AVG and reinstalled the latest version which I downloaded from AVG and it then worked fine. Could be a problem with the Firewall blocking the AVG updates.

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not gonna try now :stuck_out_tongue:
have shifted to comodo anti-virus :smiley: (free version :unamused_face:)