Good Free Virus Protection

[Fast Learner]

I'm doing some consulting work for a non-profit medical clinic and they need virus software badly (running Housecall revealed a TON of worms). I've heard that there are at least one or two quite good virus protection/elimination programs out there, but since my work has usually been for companies that can afford to buy McAfee for their computers, I haven't made notes.

Does anyone have any personal recommendations for free, good virus software with regular updates?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Viking Bastard]

AntiVir Guard

http://www.free-av.com/

It's the best I've found. That includes some non-free ones.

 

[DM]

I got one.

AVG is da' bomb!

I've used it quite a bit. It's not as good as Norton, but it's not half as resource intensive, and it's works great.


http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

 

[Krieg]

Regardless of which AV program you go with, make sure you read the license agreement. Non-personal use (even for a non-profit) may very well be a no-no for some of them.

PS - I used AVG for awhile and was reasonably satisfied with it.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I too use AVG. The price was right, and it was certainly better than Norton AV. However, I've far from used every virus program out there, so I don't know exactly where AVG falls in the scheme of things.

 

[Cabled]

Another vote for AVG

I too have been using AVG for a couple years, I've found it to be at least as good as the big two of Norton and McAffee.

 

[Krieg]

To put things in perspective I also tried BitDefender & Avast! before settling on AVG. I did a bit of research on all three which seemed to back up my preference for AVG.

I have never used AntiVir.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,113462,00.asp

Currently I use Karpaersky, but it is not freeware.

 

[Wycen]

I've used Anti-Vir and AVG. I like AVG better because a scan is faster, though I suppose the settings could be tweaked to make Anti-Vir faster. Also Anti-Vir would sometimes cause a lock up on booting and thus force a reboot and scandisc.

Stylistically, AVG looks better, in my opinion.

 

[ph34r]

Another vote for AVG. I currently use it and it's worked great for me so far.

 

[Allanon]

AntiVir, standard install on any PC for people who cannot afford a regular virusscanner. Combined with ZoneAlarm you have a reasonable protection against the worst of Internet.

Now if I could only convince people that having these things does not make clicking on every link or unknown email any more sensible. <sigh>