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What is a FREE anti-virus program?

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i definitely have a virus on my computer

what is a free anti virus program that i can get online....no scams though totally FREE

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AVG free edition.Just go to this website to get the anti-virus program.www.avg.com
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AVG Free Edition
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Avast Anti-Virus: http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Editi...

You should forget AVG free edition it has a nice interface but is poor at blocking viruses so not worth using.

I've tested both Avast Home Edition (free) and AVG 8.0 (free), AVG let me save 75% of the test viruses to my hard drive only blocking 25% were as Avast blocked 75% of viruses, Avast picked up the other 25% of the viruses that were in zip files the second I tried to extract them.

I use Avast combined with Comodo Pro on my XP home computer and have no problems with virus's or spyware.

Test them yourself: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_fil...
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Most popular free antivirus programs are AVG Anti-Virus, Avira AntiVir , Avast etc. Check out http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-sAFtLsc8e... for more details.

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Do not use AVG. AVG has alot of problems with updating its antivirus database and has a poor detection rate. I would go with Avast antiviurs. Just search for it in google.
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avg u can get it at avg.com its the best
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AVG is good, but it is not perfect when used with Vista.

Also take a look at Avira AntiVir

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I have used AVG Anti Virus, Zone Alarm Firewall, Spy-bot Search and Destroy and Ad Aware both spyware killers for years. They are all free for personal use and I have had no trouble with Viruses Trojans Hackers etc. I have just upgraded to AVG free 8.0 and all seems good so far. Zone Alarm allows a lot of personal configuration unlike the Windows Firewall. They can all be downloaded from http://www.download.com/ I also use Windows Defender from the Microsoft site. It is safe to use two anti-spy products but never use more than one A/V as it can cause conflicts. You should run A/V and anti spy weekly. Hope this helps
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