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What is the best free antivirus program?
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Old Jul 27, 2009, 03:00 AM Local time: Jul 27, 2009, 01:00 AM #1 of 6
What is the best free antivirus program?

I am looking for a good free antivirus program. Can you also give me reasons as to why you would recommend it over others?

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Old Jul 27, 2009, 03:29 AM Local time: Jul 27, 2009, 03:29 AM #2 of 6
I used to use AVG, but with their 8.0 update everything went to hell. Suddenly it was chewing through resources, flagging everything it shouldn't, and causing a major slowdown for startup time.

Avira is now my go-to program. It's small and for the most part it doesn't interfere with my normal operations. It does, however, do daily updates alongside a popup window asking you to buy the premium version. This alt-tabbed me out of a few games, and I was not happy.

At any rate, a google search will show you how you can get rid of the popups and/or make the virus definition updates run invisibly.

I've heard some people swear by Bitdefender, but I've never used that one myself, so I can't comment.

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Old Jul 27, 2009, 04:24 PM Local time: Jul 27, 2009, 02:24 PM #3 of 6
One website listed avast as the best free antivirus program. What do you think of it?

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Old Aug 3, 2009, 09:54 AM #4 of 6
I also used to like AVG, then came the update and everything started to go slow.
Anyways, maybe you can take a look at Microsoft new free antivirus software.

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE)
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I have not tried it so I cannot say if it's good or not. Just wanted to inform you.

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Old Aug 3, 2009, 07:21 PM Local time: Aug 3, 2009, 07:21 PM #5 of 6
Avast is good but I switched to Avira AntiVir. Smaller footprint and essentially as good in the comparatives.

(Of course, if you practice smart computing none of these will have a chance to do their job )

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Old Aug 18, 2009, 12:04 PM Local time: Aug 18, 2009, 08:04 PM 2 2 #6 of 6
I prefer common sense. It's free and light. But quite uncommon, and hard to find.

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