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The best free anti-virus program

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Colonel C

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Any recommendations? I just replaced my HDD and put windows on it. As of yet I don't have any anti-virus protection on it, what free anti-virus program is the best?
 
Antivir is the best of the free antivirus software applications, by free i mean free for personal use.

If this is for business use, your only choice is Clam, for it is under a GPL and is an opensource application.

Antivir, according to every detection rate test i have seen recently, has a higher detection rate than the other free ones (AVG, aVast!, and ClamWin). It also uses very little ram and system resources. It does not have an unattended update but you can configure it to update itself with about 3 clicks from the tray icon.

please see this site for detection rate tests:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/


Another antivirus detection rate test of 91202 virus samples:
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69

AntiVir version 6.30.00.17 - 84.50%
Avast version 4.6.623 - 79.65%
AVG version 7.0.308 - 54.07%
ClamWin version 0.83 - 48.44%
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Originally posted by: biostud
I've had three vira slip past AVG so I changed to Antivir
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I have AVG and MS antispyware running all time and about 2 weeks ago my computer got messed up after my GF was using it for a couple hours, not sure what it was I was quick to format and Reinstall but I thin kI might switch to Antivir just in case.
 
Originally posted by: Sforsyth
Originally posted by: biostud
I've had three vira slip past AVG so I changed to Antivir
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I have AVG and MS antispyware running all time and about 2 weeks ago my computer got messed up after my GF was using it for a couple hours, not sure what it was I was quick to format and Reinstall but I thin kI might switch to Antivir just in case.
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Please learn how to fix the problem(s) instead of taking the easy way out. 😛

 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: Sforsyth
Originally posted by: biostud
I've had three vira slip past AVG so I changed to Antivir
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I have AVG and MS antispyware running all time and about 2 weeks ago my computer got messed up after my GF was using it for a couple hours, not sure what it was I was quick to format and Reinstall but I thin kI might switch to Antivir just in case.
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Please learn how to fix the problem(s) instead of taking the easy way out. 😛
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Well I did try to fix it for about an hour and noone here on this forum could figure it out either, it was eaier yeas but it was also better in the end.
 
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