What is the best free antivirus? Check this out.
By chibibo on Nov 12, 2009 with Comments 0
You certainly want to know what antivirus is best for your protection and most probably the free one. We all know that an antivirus protects our computer from malwares or what I call the “bad dudes”, and it is a necessity if you have a personal computer. We also know that there are a lot of antivirus softwares that are free and commercial right? So if you don’t have money on your pocket then most probably you will choose free antivirus softwares.
Indeed and based on my experience as your fellow computer user, Commercial Antivirus softwares are more superior than FREE Antivirus softwares, but this should not bring you down because you can also get a maximum protection without getting any amount of money from your pocket just to purchase a commercial one.
There are a lot of FREE Antivirus softwares out for download to choose from but the question is, “What is the best free antivirus” you should pick? Well, this post should help you out on that, and you better start focusing now because I’m here to show you what Antivirus software you should pick. I know that i’m not a professional to present this and I’m not endorsing any of the following products but what I am going to show is based on reviews, polls, and personal experience.
Note: Some informations are based from their publisher itself and other websites. You can check their respective sites for validation.
Lets start of with the list of top free antivirus programs and listed from top 1 to top 6.
- Avast Home Edition
- Avira AntiVir Personal Edition
- AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
- Panda Cloud Antivirus
- ClamWin Free Antivirus
- Comodo AntiVirus
What I’m going to tackle is from top 1 to top 3 only because top 4-6 is what I don’t recommend most. Now lets begin.
Avast Home Edition – is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components:
- On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button
- On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients
- Instant messaging–ICQ, Miranda
- Network traffic–intrusion detection, lightweight firewall;
- P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent
- Web shield–monitors and filters all HTTP traffic
- NNTP scanner–scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC
- Boot time scanner–scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.
Poll Percentage: 40% (Based on http://www.freewaremission.com/)
Average user rating: 4.5/5 out of 11727 votes (as of Nov. 12, 09 5:02pm gmt+8 and based on http://download.cnet.com/)
My Rating: 4.7/5 (Based on experience), *Highly Recommended
Avira AntiVir Personal Edition – is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users only. Avira offers:
- Extensive Malware Recognition of viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, worms
- Automatic incremental updates of antivirus signatures, engine and entire software
- Permanent virus protection, with Virus Guard real time monitoring; Install and configuration in just a couple of steps, setup to protect your PC in minutes
- Virus protection against known and unknown threats, using an advanced heuristic system
- Scheduler where you can set the scanner to make automatic virus scans or updates on your system
- Forum and phone support
- Knowledge Base with virus descriptions available on web site
- Rootkit Detection and Removal
- A modularized AV-search engine for improved scan performance.
Poll Percentage: 37% (Based on http://www.freewaremission.com/)
Average user rating: 3.5/5 out of 2848 votes (as of Nov. 12, 09 5:02pm gmt+8 and based on http://download.cnet.com/)
My Rating: 4/5 (Based on experience), *If you don’t want AVAST, then I recommend this.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition – is an anti-virus protection tool available free of charge to home users. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability.
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition gives you free rock solid protection for your basic security needs. The combined anti-virus/anti-spyware scanner in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition runs up to 50% faster than earlier versions and doesn’t get in your way. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition also delivers new anti-phishing detection techniques, which can quickly and accurately determine whether or not a web page is hosting a phishing attack. AVG gives you:
- Protection against Identity Theft- AVG’s unique Identity Protection technology ensures that when you shop and bank online, your bank account information, passwords, and other important personally-identifiable information can’t be stolen. As a bonus, Identity Protection also keeps you safe against new and unknown threats before they can cause harm.
- Protection from hackers – AVG’s enhanced firewall keeps hackers’ prying eyes out of your private business. These remote trespassers can view or steal information, take control of your computer for nefarious purposes like botnets and spamming. It even includes a game mode to keep you protected without interrupting your play.
- Protection against spammer and scammers – AVG’s anti-spam protection makes sure your email inbox is kept clear of unwanted junk mail, offers for products you don’t want or need, and solicitations from scammy marketers looking to separate you from your money.
- Protection for instant messaging, downloads, and social networking – AVG’s Web Shield is on constant guard, making sure any files you exchange using MSN or ICQ instant messaging, download, or share with friends in your social networks are safe from viruses, spyware, and other nasties.
- Protection against sophisticated rootkits – While AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition can detect a few rootkits, most of these threats are so complex and sophisticated that powerful tools are needed to root them out from deep inside your PC.
Poll Percentage: 17% (Based on http://www.freewaremission.com/)
Average user rating: 4/5 out of 19763 votes (as of Nov. 12, 09 5:02pm gmt+8 and based on http://download.cnet.com/)
My Rating: 2/5 (Based on experience), *Least/Not Recommended
Courtesy of http://www.freewaremission.com/
Thank you and I hope it helps! by the way, to download my recommended free antivirus software, click the download link image below.
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(!Please note that this is not a complete assurance. Kindly read my article here.)
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