Is there any free antivirus software that is good enough to replace norton 360?

Question

Is there any free antivirus software that is good enough to replace norton 360?

Answer 1

I would stay with norton 360

Answer 2

Norton is pretty lame in my opinion - I've had virus infections go undetected by it enough times to know not to trust it.

AVG is the best free one in my opinion. It has the lightest memory footprint too, which means you can use it on slower systems without noticing it running behind the scenes.

I used AVG free recently to fix the SHeur.CCOH trojan virus that was keeping Internet Explorer from opening and was slowing my system down. Ran the free AVG scanner and it removed the infection and my system is back to smokin fast like it was when I first bought it.

Answer 3

AVG has to be the best

Answer 4

Many people have the mistaken idea that free is not good.

Most malwares are designed to attack popular

antivirus products (like Symantec or Norton), but since free anti-virus

product is much less used, it's capable of fighting the viruses when

industry leaders fail.

There is a joke on the new version of Norton.

The joke is like this "Norton is the most effective antivirus because it suck away all the system memory from other applications and disable them. No applications and viruses can run as a result. Therefore your system are always free from viruses. However, the only application you can run on your Windows is Norton."

So I would go for the free version rather than the bloated and

unreliable branded version.

I would suggest that you get Avast Home Edition version 4,

which is free for personal use.

Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do

a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove the entire virus on your PC.

Even those viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

Windows utilize a restore utility that backs up selected files

automatically to the System volume information /System Restore folder.

This means that an infected file could be stored there as a backup file,

and most anti-virus programs will be unable to delete these files. You

must disable the System Restore Utility to remove the infected files

from the folder if you use another brand of anti-virus. However, you do

not need to do so if you use Avast to do a boot up scan in safe mode.

Avast Anti-virus installation

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht...

How to configure Avast ?

http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/soe/an...

Answer 5

You could try the antivirus program from PCTools which is completely free and I think very good

Answer 6

go to filehippo.com theres hundrads of free good ones on there:)

Answer 7

try avast

http://www.avast.com

Answer 8

If you run AVG it will show up as NO PROBLEMS FOUND. Download  WINDOWS ADVANCED CARE 2 and if you run that you will find dozens of problems. I dont rate AVG at all

Answer 9

Avira

www.free-av.com

Answer 10

I had norton 360 and have now replaced it with Avast, no problem.

Answer 11

All of them are much better than norton 360, i use only avast and didn't have virus for more than 2 years

Answer 12

Hi! You might want to try this list:

http://www.freesoftwareworkshop.com/free...

Hope it helps!  

Answer 13

It doesn't take much to be better than Norton 360, it's a very poor AV.

A very good, free anti-virus available to download is AVG 8 Anti-virus:

http://www.free.grisoft.com

And for any spyware problems, get SpyBot - Search and Destroy:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirro...

Also, for protecting your personal info and files, use Ad-Aware 2008 Free Edition:

http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_fr...

All of them are free, as powerful as paid programs, like Norton and McAfee, and don't use up as many resources.

Just boot into Safe Mode (Press F8 when turning on the computer) and run full scans.

Hope that helps.