Anti-virus software recommendations

Hey GMHockey computer wiz members:

I need to download some anti-virus software and I want a good one. I have heard not all anti-virus software programs are alike and some actually make your computer worse off so let me know what you recommend please.

Thank you in advance.

I use Avast.... free and good.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

AVG

And if anyone's looking for a good, free Firewall...

http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html

Comodo is very good.

AVG is very good and i had it reccomended to my by a computer engineer who had fixed my computer many times he told me it is the best one out there and it is free

Careful with the latest versions of AVG... they've started to bloat their "free" software. I gave up on it and moved to Avast.

and by bloat you mean?

I use Trend Micro. It has a buttload of features, is relatively cheap and really doesn't monopolize your system. I've been using it for several years now.

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:and by bloat you mean?

Add lots of useless stuff... slows it down...

I am current trying avira....

shabbs wrote:

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:and by bloat you mean?

Add lots of useless stuff... slows it down...

That's one of my favorite things about Trend Micro...you only run the feature you choose and it's a simple click to shut down the program.

shabbs wrote:I use Avast.... free and good.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

This, unbeatable.

shabbs wrote:I use Avast.... free and good.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

I'm going to have to check out avast, I think. I've been using AVG for a few years and, you're right, it's begun to get too big for my britches.

I've got a low-end PC (a 4-5 year old eMachines -- never again buy an eMachnes, but that's another story) and when AVG is running its comprehensive scan it sucks up the CPU for a couple of hours -- and I only have an 80 GB drive that's about half full. As well, I've got a multi-user installation (all six of us have an account) and the update nags happen for everyone, which means that the update checker is running for everyone -- frankly, I don't want my kids involved in the decision of what and when to upgrade. Is it too much to ask that only the user(s) with admin privileges run the updater?

shabbs wrote:I use Avast.... free and good.

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this one beats AVG by a mile, noticed like you said with AVG 8, the package was starting to bloat and cause major slow downs on my pc.

OK, just unloaded AVG and installed Avast. Couple questions:

1. Where is the option to select when to do a full scan? I want to schedule it at something like 1AM every Monday morning. Couldn't (quickly) find it. I don't want it to scan at startup every time, which is what it is currently insisting on doing.

2. While looking for the full scan scheduling option, I started up the simple user interface. There it asked me for a registration license and said I had 59 days left on the demo license. So is this just a time-limited demo that expires in 2 months?