I am having real trouble renewing my subscription to Norton and thought i would see if there is an as good or better *FREE* anti virus programme out there.

What would you peeps suggest?

Don't use McAfee what ever you do.

http://www.grisoft.com
They have a free edition for personal use.

[Edited on 23/3/06 by chockymonster]

F-secure

nothing wrong with the free version of AVG

AVG seems ok to me. The only difference between the free and bought version is that you get no support.

Mcaffee is 100 times better than Norton however so is a lot of the free stuff. Apart from its adverse effects on the running of a computer the worst thing about Norton is trying to clear it all out.


Free-AV http://www.free-av.com/
and Free AVG http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

If doing some web research on anti-virus software on sites like Castle Cops don't get confused by some reports from users " I loaded software X in place of software Y and it discovered 10,000 infected files that software X hadn't found" --- 99 times out a hundred these are false posatives, all av software gives some false posatives some more than others.

Stick a Triumph in it and make a Triton...

I use Norton and keep it up to date and have had no problems at all apart from power supply doodahs blowing up..

My lad swears by AVG, think it's a free download but not sure.

you could try NOD 32

Mcaffee every time.

"FREE" Zone Alarm - top firewall and antiv.

Pat...

I quite like Avast... free and simple. been using it for a while with no problems....

I have been reccomended AVG and thats from a microsoft certifies pooter engineer so i'll give that a go.

Cheers chaps

andy