Need to find a free virus scanner

I don't really have the money to spend on a good virus scanner.. Figures eh, I spend about a total of 2k for my computer and don't buy a virus scanner....


Anyways just looking for something that does the trick, I don't need anything that has firewall programs with it. Between my router and vistas firewall crap My PC is locked tighter than my gf's pants after I've spent the last 24 hours at a LAN party with out her.

I'm using avast! which happens to be free. Not sure how good it is, but so far it's free.

The virus scanner I use is Avira AntiVir. It updates virus definitions every day, is free and seems to have done the trick so far.

I use AVG Anti-Virus at the moment. I am a bit confused though if they are getting away from their free version so that may change soon. However, at this point in time, I have used that without much of a problem.

Kaspersky.

Bout it.

Avast is great, it updates itself on average 3 times a day; its good at catching items others don't; and my favorite, it uses very little resources.

I use AVG Anti-virus, but I've got several false-positives from the scanner during the last 6 months--reporting files as viruses when they're not. It made me paranoid when it gave the false-positive. I hear Avast is better, and I've been thinking about switching to that. And you can check out dslreports.com, and check the security forums, it will list all the free antivirus/anti-spyware crap you can get.

I used to use Kaspersky but it was cracked... Anyways I am trying avast and lets see how it works out, thanks

Originally Posted by El Ray Fernando

Avast is great, it updates itself on average 3 times a day; its good at catching items other don't; and my favorite, it uses very little resources.

I updated Avast the other day (probably last week now) when it told me there was a product upgrade... but then I started having extreme resource problems while running WoW with the updated Avast. I don't know what the problem was, but it was almost like it kept running/loading in the background while I played...I uninstalled it and the game runs great now, but I miss having Avast! running and was curious if there was something in the update that caused it to continously run and load like that in the background. :|

I ended up going with avira and so far it has worked fine. I just unchecked the firewall part of the install and wala works great. Thanks

Originally Posted by dagget

I updated Avast the other day (probably last week now) when it told me there was a product upgrade... but then I started having extreme resource problems while running WoW with the updated Avast. I don't know what the problem was, but it was almost like it kept running/loading in the background while I played...I uninstalled it and the game runs great now, but I miss having Avast! running and was curious if there was something in the update that caused it to continously run and load like that in the background. :|

Thats odd.

Try a reinstall, I have all updates installed and the database is up to date and I am using about 16-19mb of RAM. (5 background services all at 0 CPU usage ver.4.8.1169)

Have there been complaints from other WOW users??

ClamWin works for me. It lacks a real-time scanner, but then again, I've come to stay clear of the seedier parts of the web when operating a Windows machine anyway.