AVG free antivirus alternative

[samijubal]

I'm having problems with AVG and need a good alternative. A search here yeilds Avast and Avira as good ones. Are those good or are there better ones out there?

[hech54]

Avast for me.

[freebird73717]

Avast has served me well. Uses little resources compared to others and works well. Also no popup adds trying to get you to purchase the full version.

[lordsmurf]

Avira

[RowMan]

Yeah. Avira for me, too. It does have one popup whenever it updates. I've heard of ways to disable that, but it's a small price to pay for very excellent FREE antivirus software.

[Kryzon]

I'm also going to switch from AVG to Avira. That 8.5 is too heavy for my computer (yeah, old one), and Avira seems to be the lightest of all, CPU-wise (the system requirements, according to the manual, is very low).

It's definitely a good choice.

[videobread]

I'm still using AVG. I bought more RAM. More hardware helps a lot of problems. I'm a slow adapter. I just stopped using Norton a little over a year ago. I know AVIRA and AVAST are getting good reviews but, I change real slow kicking and screaming all the way.

[MJA]

Avira

Disable the Avira AntiVir avnotify nag screen

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

[SatStorm]

ClamWin is another one.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Avast and set updates to auto and silent mode.

[budz]

Avast

[GKar]

Avira

[isogonic]

I use ClamWin which is a 'on-demand' scanner. It dosn't monitor files in real time.
Another chose is MS security essentials;

http://www.microsoft.com/security/products/mse.aspx

[SanderMan]

Microsoft security essentials or Avira.

[fritzi93]

ClamWin. Avast is also very good.

A year or two ago, I had Avira for a few months. It's okay I guess, I haven't had a badware problem for years now, so I can't speak from experience really. :P Got tired of the nag screen and went with ClamWin.

[MJA]

it's easy to turn the nag screen off

link again

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm

[fritzi93]

Yeah, I saw it, thanks. Got no reason to change back at the moment.

[ocgw]

I use AVG, but have used and liked Avira and Avast too

ocgw

peace

[Safesurfer]

The free Avira doesn't have email scanning, Avast does.

[MJA]

from using both on infected Pc's Avira cleans better than Avast

[MOVIEGEEK]

The free Avira doesn't have email scanning, Avast does.

Windows Security Essentials also lacks email scanning.

[samijubal]

I went with Avast since Avira doesn't have the resident shield in the free version from what I've read. It seems to work. At least my browser opens pages now, with AVG it got to where a third to half the pages I'd try to open wouldn't open without having to click multiple times.

[ocgw]

Resident Shield decided to turn off on my AVG, just switched to Avira

ocgw

peace

[Abas-Avara]

I always used 7.5 but when 8.0 came out that really sucked (no more updates for 7.5). Now I use Antivir free. I think it's even better then the internet security version of Bitdefender and Kaspersky

[samijubal]

I used AVG from 5.0 or 5.5 I think it was without any problems until the latest version.

[bendixG15]

Comodo for me .....

[usually_quiet]

I use four free security programs, Avast's anti-virus and Comodo's software firewall, plus MalawareBytes anti-malware and Advanced System Care.

[lordsmurf]

My server has a/v screening.

[Bix]

Avast for me, too.

[p_l]

Comodo Internet Security