Good, free antivirus software?

[c0sie]

My Norton subscription runs out in about a week, and I cant afford to renew it....

Does anyone know of any DECENT (and free) antivirus/firewall softwares at all?

For the record itll be going onto Vista.

Thanks

[Southwell]

AVG is the norm.

[fxpower]

Yap AVG all the way

[Jamie.T]

If you download AVG Chris, let me know and ill send you a license number to make it the full version. Hush Hush lol

[c0sie]

Thank you gentlemen

[mikeyscott]

AVG if you must. But it's got a crap detection rate

Novatech are selling Kapersky very cheap and I'd go with that.

[IceMike]

dont go on dodgy sites then u wont have a problem. i haven had a virus scanner runnin on my pc for the last 4 years or more. dont see the point, if your not lookin at weird sites that well known to alot of ppl( so not pirate software sites and porn) you wont have a problem, an if u do go on them sites, jsut watch wot your downloading if it looks dodgy the chances are it is

[Rocking Donkey]

I use Avast! which is the same as AVG. I find it very good. I also use spybot-search&destroy which has a realtime checker that lets you know if anything is trying to install itself on your system. If you have enough ram to run it without slowing you up too much then I recommend that.

For more info and a safe place to download stuff from check out www.download.com . Its always the first place I check

Ben

[Southwell]

Originally Posted by IceMike

dont go on dodgy sites then u wont have a problem. i haven had a virus scanner runnin on my pc for the last 4 years or more. dont see the point, if your not lookin at weird sites that well known to alot of ppl( so not pirate software sites and porn) you wont have a problem, an if u do go on them sites, jsut watch wot your downloading if it looks dodgy the chances are it is

Well you wouldn't even know if you were infected so thats not very clever imo.

[IceMike]

Originally Posted by Southwell

Well you wouldn't even know if you were infected so thats not very clever imo.

you can tell if your infected by looking at you task manager. i know exactly wot each one of the processes running on my computer are so i know that there not viruses. you can also tell cos most of them are adware an they will pop up messages asking you to buy stuff

[CHEVY]

used norton loads of problems
changed to kaspersky no problems go for the best