Free antivirus program

[Nohal]

My Norton has expired and I am looking for a good free anti virus program. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[tekmom]

We use AVG free. It's worked great for us.

 

[LeCras]

Avast is good. Takes up a lot less system resources than Norton too. I run it on a PC and two laptops at home, no complaints.

Charlotte

 

[Nohal]

Thanks for the info. I will look into both programs.

 

[DISUNC]

We use AVG free. It's worked great for us.

http://free.avg.com/

Been using it for Years never had a virus!

 

[schmitty]

Avast is my AV of choice.

 

[Tess]

Avast is good. Takes up a lot less system resources than Norton too. I run it on a PC and two laptops at home, no complaints.

Charlotte

Ditto this suggestion--it actually caught a bad website for me today.

 

[Wishing on a star]

We tried the AVG free... and while it seemed to work, I think there might have been some minor glitches with our old Windows XP. And, the free version is limited... You will not actually see it, but there could be a lot of other invasions, spyware, etc.. on your computer.

We had tried BitDefender... Glitches with it with our Windows XP.

Then, downloaded the free trial of CyberDefender to try it. Again, it seemed to work, but the free version is limited.

We now realize that for full protection, one must pay for a full package.
In almost every single case, the 'free' version is just a limited teaser, and you will be heavily encouraged to purchase the better package.

We now have Eset... We haven't had it for long, (bought it off Amazon a few weeks ago) but it is virtually invisible, and doesn't seem to be a huge drain on our poor old outdated system. When we installed it and ran the full scan for the first time, it flushed DOZENS of hidden viruses and spyware etc. from our system that one can only imagine the prior programs had missed!!!!

 

[MariDisney]

Count me as another one happily using avast.