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What is the best free anti-virus and firewall software to get?

Date: 26 Mar 2012   Group: Computers    Category: Software    Posted By: [Anonymous]   


I have heard that sometimes, free anti-virus software is better than paid for stuff. So i was wondering, which is the best free one so that I can compare it to the one I currently have and see if I would be better off getting a free anti-virus or firewall software.


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Author: hardik patel    30 Mar 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

Best free antivirus is Microsoft Security Essential provided by Microsoft.

It is very small in size is consume less process and provide best security to computer.

Author: Surojit    30 Mar 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 2    Voting Score: 0

You have heard wrong my friend. Free anti-virus always lacks some features compared to paid anti-virus. Other ISC members will enlighten you on this topic whether to use free anti-virus or not.
For the best free anti-virus you have asked for is AVG and Microsoft Security Essential.




Author: Vlada    30 Mar 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

One more thing, if you're not using original windows operating system, you cannot install Microsoft Security Essential, but you won't have that otherwise problem with AVG.

Regards,
Vlada

Author: vijay v    31 Mar 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 2    Voting Score: 0

Paid Anti-virus is always best when compared with free anti-virus programs. Avast, AVG Anti-virus Free Edition 2010 and Microsoft Security Essentials are the best in free anti-virus. Avast is trusted by more than 180,558,165 people.411,110,960 people trust AVG. Microsoft Security Essentials doesn't occupy much size , easy to use.I personally recommend AVG Free i am using it from more than 2 years and i am free from virus. All Anti-virus programs come with inbuilt firewall.

Regards,
Vijay

Author: Shafeer V U    31 Mar 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 3    Voting Score: 0

In the case of antivirus softwares it is always best choosing paid one rather than free one. Paid one has the full featured function. And because of that it can resist the virus affect to your computer effectively. The free antivirus softwares have some limited features. And in my knowledge the free antivirus software itself contain some virus. It will affect your computer after the trial period. It is better to choose a good and paid anti virus software for fully protection. You have already says that you have a paid one and you have to compare it with a free one. So I suggest you should check the original one with free avast antivirus software. You can see the dissimilarity. And the lack of features in free antivirus software compared to the original one.
Author: Muhammad Farooq    31 Mar 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 2    Voting Score: 0

Hi,
Best way you can use paid antivirus for good result. However, if you have not able to buy full registered antivirus or Internet security for your PC, then download and use one month trial version from its official websites ,i.e. ESET NOD32,Avast.
Don't use any patch and crack for registration purpose ,because these will be harmful your PC and your precious data will be lost.

Author: Imtiyaz Khan    31 Mar 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 0    Voting Score: 0

if you are looking for free anti-virus try Rising Anti-virus its best demo version antivirus available in market.
Author: MANDEEP    01 Apr 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

The best antivirus is BITDEFENDER 2012. It has been ranked the best by many websites and under strict checking.
For the best firewall you can use COMODO FIREWALL. It gives each and every report about incoming and outgoing connections.

Author: Sumedh Lakade    01 Apr 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

I would suggest free registered version of Avast will help u a lot for keeping your computer safe. Just take care of keeping it up to date. I have been using free registered version of Avast for last 2 and half years I never had any security problems.
Its experience speaking.....

Author: venugopal    03 Apr 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

currently the free software availabe are enormous,among those the best is Avast free antivirus and you can donload it freely by following the link

Reference: http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10019223.html?tag=main;pop
Author: satheesh sharma    03 Apr 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 2    Voting Score: 0

Microsoft has been given its user a free security program called microsoft security essentials . It is better than third party programs . It is of simplicity and of good protection. It doesn't slows down the windows process and works in a effective way . Microsoft has proved itself to the third party security programs.
Author: Vishnu Babu    05 Apr 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 2    Voting Score: 0

Free anti-virus have less fetchers than paid one. Still there are many free anti-virus available to us. The one that i recommend to you is panda cloud anti-virus , it has many fetchers when compared to many other. You can also use avast anti-virus it can even show good internet sight by a fetcher called over all rating.Another good one is AVG. Panda can be used along with many other anti-virus.
Author: Shashikanth Vydyula    01 May 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

Free antivirus lacks many features than a internet security suite.One of the main difference is lack of firewall.So if you want an antivirus and firewall separately I suggest you to get Avast free antivirus and Zone alarm firewall or Comodo Firewall.
But remember having two separate programms may slow down your system.

Author: Pavnesh Pratap singh    06 May 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 5  (Rs 3)    Voting Score: 0

The best antivirus software I heard is quick heal antivirus but its latest version is not free but you can download its old version because they can also give your PC more protection and your PC will be protected . You will also get a firewall software in this antivirus.

Some more antivirus I know is Avira antivirus personal which is free to download and give your PC the best protection .


Warning : The thing which you have to remember is not to crack the antivirus because it will harm your PC and if you have an internet connection and you are cracking the antivirus then the server will understand that you had crack the antivirus software and it will ignore your antivirus and then your antivirus will not work because it will update our PC .

Author: Chitra    07 May 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

You get to download many anti virus software's online. Some of them are
Avast
AVG
Bit Defender
Norton Trial Version
Microsoft Security Essential

Author: Shaikh AbdulHannan AbdulBasit    07 May 2012      Member Level: Silver     Points : 1  (Rs 1)    Voting Score: 0

Avast is the best free antivirus. And, if you have a regular internet connection on the computer with Avast, then Avast will perform in an even good manner.
Author: anwar    14 May 2012      Member Level: Bronze     Points : 1    Voting Score: 0

In my opinion the best free anti-virus is avast and the best paid one is kaspersky..
Author: Nilesh Patel    14 May 2012      Member Level: Gold     Points : 1  (Rs 1)    Voting Score: 0

Best free antivirus is Avast and best free malware is Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware. Avast gives one year free license. I tried both. Both are good. Just try once.

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