Need a free anti-virus?

[WaLLy]

Hello everyone,

Thought I'd share with you guys this: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

I've been using it for the past month or so, and I'm pretty happy with it.

Your copy of Windows has to be genuine though.

 

[Cent0]

lol
i've been using that for about 2 months or so.
its pretty good.

 

[NickHouston]

my internet provider give me free norton $100+ package

 

[Cent0]

WOAH
SERIOUS?
IS IT GOOD?

 

[NickHouston]

yea, comcast gives it free to all of their customers and its great. they used to give mcafee

 

[WaLLy]

yea, comcast gives it free to all of their customers and its great. they used to give mcafee

the point to this thread is to share a completely free anti-virus. You pay for Internet so your ISP provides it for you.

 

[NickHouston]

oh, never thought of that

 

[Cent0]

lol owned Nick.

vbefore i used microsoft essenty, i used Avira AntiVirus.

http://www.free-av.com/

not too shabby at all. my dad changed my comp to essenty

 

[NickHouston]

lol owned Nick.

what do you expect? i mean he's WaLLy for god's sake

 

[SLeePYG72786]

I used to use AVG, and installed on every PC I came across. But since I read Maximum PC's article (web article) about their free antivirus roundup, and saw how AVG adds about 25-30 extra seconds on to your boot time, I decided to see if it was true. So I uninstalled AVG, and restarted my PC. Sure enough, I shaved about 30 seconds off of my boot time. In the article, it said that Avira only adds about 6 seconds to the boot time, and I've used Avira before. So I went and downloaded that, and now my machine starts up so much faster. It used to take about 1 minute, 20 seconds. Now it's around 45-50 seconds.
So, I recommend Avira, as it is just as good, if not better than, AVG.