What's a good program that can scan for viruses for free?

Question

Also, tell me if you have personally used it on your comp and how good it works. Thanks.

Answer 1

i use AVG its free and works fine for me also i have never heard of anyone complaining about it.

Answer 2

AVG free edition. Expect like 20 other people saying the same thing

Answer 3

you can get norton antivirus for free eh its easy to use but im not sure if the free version removes like cookies and viruses, it'll let you no if u have them though

Answer 4

http://www.download.com/Antivirus-Firewa...

at the top of the page are the free antivirus programs

I personally use avast home edition.  It caught a couple of possible programs at a website and locked it away w/o having to ask for permission, but I generally don't test my av that much (I try to browse safe)

Answer 5

the first guy has the best answer i have avg its great :

http://free.avg.com/

Answer 6

abap tutorials-http://abaptutorials.info/

Answer 7

There are several good programs for this. But I want to say immediately, avoid the free "Scan your computer now" sites that are companies  you've never heard of. Most of them are scams, plain and simple.

To give a short list, here are 3 standards apps in the free category I used to give my customers (I had a shop for a few years).

Anti-Virus: AVG from http://free.avg.com/

(There is also this one my brother has used, but I haven't used  it personally. Avast from http://www.avast.com/)

Spyware Scanner: Ad-Aware from http://lavasoft.com/

Firewall: Zone Alarm from http://www.zonealarm.com

All of these products also have purchase versions with more bells and whistles, but the free ones work just fine. And I do recommend using all three for best results. Each program has it's focus, and for proper security you need to cover all three areas: Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, and a Firewall.

One thing I'd like to mention- for anti-virus I prefer Norton.

http://www.symantec.com

You do have to pay for that one but it's an old friend of mine. I've had it for so long with great results it's one I often encourage folks to actually pay for. The updates and support are unmatched in my opinion.

Hope this helps get you in the right direction.

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