billwilliams70 Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 With the move into the new house, we're cutting our COMCAST, they provided free Norton AV protection that protected against everything, virus', spyware, malware, etc. Are there any free programs that do the same, or is it just best to buy a product? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FC Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and it seems to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clyde Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and it seems to work well. Ditto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvdfc Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and it seems to work well. Same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Run To State Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Makes four of us, AVG seems to work well for me. I also recommend Malewarebytes, which is also free. Props to Swamprat for that. :thumb: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 AVG or Avast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habib Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and Malewarebytes and uninstalled the McAfee stuff that came with the computer. No problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godot Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and it seems to work well.I've been using AVG for 7 or 8 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerkywrestler Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 AVG here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big K 61 Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I use the free version of AVG and Malewarebytes and uninstalled the McAfee stuff that came with the computer. No problems. Dittos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrizzlyAdams Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Makes four of us, AVG seems to work well for me. I also recommend Malewarebytes, which is also free. Props to Swamprat for that. :thumb: Agree. I remember a while back I posted about a nasty virus that was called "personal antivirus". Swamprat posted about Malewarebytes and got that off for me. I've used it ever since and I've never had a problem with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolamite Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 AVG is where its at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCHS_Dad Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I have been happy using Microsoft Security Essentials. Our IT people have moved us from McAfee to this product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nWo Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I've switched from AVG to Avast simply because my computer is old and AVG was slowing it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swamprat Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 As nWo pointed out, AVG has become a resource hog, much like Norton. I removed AVG from all of my computers and got an immediate performance boost. Microsoft Security Essentials works great, but Avast is better, and neither of those taxes the hard drive and memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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