Virus/Firewall Software

[Banshee34]

Which do you guys think is the best virus/firewall software out there that is free????

[ianstew]

Free? I'm not sure of free, but alot of ISP's have free downloadable software, and if you are a bank of america customer you van download CA anti virus for free. I had the CA, and I ended up going with Windows live one care, works good so far

[mbahr22250]

I've been using AVG free edition for about a year now on my work computer and haven't had any problems yet. I'm not sure how much the full version costs but I don't think it's that much.

[NoRalPh]

Yea, AVG Free (they try to hide it on their website and redirect you to the pay or "trial" versions but, you can find AVG 9.0 absolutely FREE - cnet has it to download)

Works really well!

[stroken04]

avast! Free Antivirus - Download Software for Virus Protection

This is my favorite

[Hoytster]

I used to recommend and install AVG Free for my clients. I used their software for ~7 years.

As of Aug 2009, I now recommend Avast. The software is more effective at catching viruses and malware. It also uses less resources than AVG so it doesn't slow your computer down as much.

[stroken04]

Originally Posted by Hoytster

I used to recommend and install AVG Free for my clients. I used their software for ~7 years.

As of Aug 2009, I now recommend Avast. The software is more effective at catching viruses and malware. It also uses less resources than AVG so it doesn't slow your computer down as much.

Bingo I also made the move from AVG to Avast.

[Banshee34]

Thanks everyone!

[NoRalPh]

I'm going to look at Avast because with the latest AVG I see that they disable Microsofts Windows Defender from running!