Can anyone recommend a free antivirus now that AVG is malfunctioning?

[babel17]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011 is
malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear to be
able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

Who would you recommend?

Windows XP.

Thanks !

 

[Buffalo]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011
is malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear
to be able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

Who would you recommend?

Windows XP.

Thanks !

Free Avira AntiVir
Better IMO anyways.
Buffalo

 

[s|b]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011 is
malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear to be
able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

Who would you recommend?

avast! Free Antivirus
<http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download>

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011 is
malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear to be
able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

You talking about AVG Free or the paid version?

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[(PeteCresswell)]

Per s|b:

avast! Free Antivirus
<http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download>

+1

 

[babel17]

Free Avira AntiVir
Better IMO anyways.
Buffalo

Thanks!

 

[babel17]

You talking about AVG Free or the paid version?

AVG FREE. The first problem was interfering with e-mail sending - the
workaround was to uninstall and reinstall without e-mail scanning.
The new problem is failure of Update manager, on some machines but not
on others.

 

[Dave Cohen]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011 is
malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear to be
able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

Who would you recommend?

Windows XP.

Thanks !

I was using Avira, but have switched to MS Essentials on a winxp and a
windows 7 machine. Both work fine and update approx. each day. I believe
you will need to have automatic windows update set, but I always have
anyway.

 

[babel17]

Can anyone recommend a Free AntiVirus program now that AVG Free 2011 is
malfunctioning on many (but not all) machines? They do not appear to be
able to fix the update problem and I need up-to-date protection.

Who would you recommend?

Windows XP.

Thanks !

Perhaps I will try Avast since it is mentioned twice and no problems
were described.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Perhaps I will try Avast since it is mentioned twice and no problems

were described.
Any other suggestions?

Micro$oft Security Essential.

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[babel17]

Micro$oft Security Essential.

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an AntiVirus alone or is it other
programs as well? In other words, would I have to uninstall ZoneAlarm
or any other program in order to use it?

 

[Man-wai Chang]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an AntiVirus alone or is it other
programs as well? In other words, would I have to uninstall ZoneAlarm or
any other program in order to use it?

Anti-virus alone AFAIK.

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

[babel17 wrote: ^1]

Perhaps I will try Avast since it is mentioned twice and no problems
were described.
Any other suggestions?

Micro$oft Security Essential.

Would you trust an anti-virus program produced by the company who wrote
the operating system that needs it?

^1. Please stop snipping attributes.

 

[babel17]

[babel17 wrote: ^1]

Perhaps I will try Avast since it is mentioned twice and no problems
were described.
Any other suggestions?

Micro$oft Security Essential.

Would you trust an anti-virus program produced by the company who wrote
the operating system that needs it?

^1. Please stop snipping attributes.

1. What is AFAIK ?
2. I indeed am wary about using a Microsoft product for security.
3. What does "snipping attributes" mean?

 

[Man-wai Chang]

1. What is AFAIK ?

As far as I knew...

2. I indeed am wary about using a Microsoft product for security.

On the bright side, it should operate more efficiently if not more
effectively because both the OS and the anti-virus device are Micro$oft.

3. What does "snipping attributes" mean?

He/She wanted to see names!

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

[babel17 wrote: ^1]
Perhaps I will try Avast since it is mentioned twice and no
problems were described. Any other suggestions?

Micro$oft Security Essential.

Would you trust an anti-virus program produced by the company who
wrote the operating system that needs it?

^1. Please stop snipping attributes.

1. What is AFAIK ?

As Far As I Know.

2. I indeed am wary about using a Microsoft product for security.

Seems only logical...

3. What does "snipping attributes" mean?

An attribute is: "babel17 wrote:" indicating who said the quoted
material. Man-wai Chang has the long-standing and annoying bad habit of
snipping (removing) them from replies, so a reader must look back
through the thread to see "who said that."

 

[idbeholda]

http://www.tot-ltd.org.

You will need vb6 runtimes installed.

 

[s|b]

Is Microsoft Security Essentials an AntiVirus alone or is it other
programs as well? In other words, would I have to uninstall ZoneAlarm
or any other program in order to use it?

Uninstalling ZoneAlarm is /always/ a good idea...

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

[babel17 wrote: ^1]

1. What is AFAIK ?

As far as I knew...

2. I indeed am wary about using a Microsoft product for security.

On the bright side, it should operate more efficiently if not more
effectively because both the OS and the anti-virus device are
Micro$oft.

On the _brighter_ side, if Microsoft was more efficient and effective,
you might not even need an anti-virus "device."

He/She wanted to see names!

^1. You did it again. Why are you so stubborn?

 

[babel17]

Uninstalling ZoneAlarm is /always/ a good idea...

Why is that?
I never really thought that I had any problems with Zone Alarm