Top 5 Free Antivirus Programs Top 5 Free Antivirus Programs

Although our life without the Internet isn't worth a day's purchase, we all realize that the Web is a real “source of evil” for Windows PC. Trojans, spyware, phishing sites – all this can expose your essential information or stop your puter from working at all. That's why, decent security software is a good start to keep it safe and block all sophisticated and well-directed attacks. Happily, there are plenty of freeware anti-viruses on the market, so you won't have to waste money to decide which is the best one for your situation.

avast! Free Antivirus

avast! Free Antivirusavast! Free Antivirus

Being one of the top among freeware anti-viruses, avast! Free Antivirus provides solid protection and performance results. With its streamlined user interface, the application comprises all the significant safety capabilities, like web and e-mail shields, boot-time scanning, and a behavioral blocker. It has a minimal impact on your system performance and supports a so-called Salient or Gaming mode: the program won't show you any messages when you view full-screen videos or play games.

AVG AntiVirus

AVG FreeAVG Free

This is actually my personal choice in terms of an urgent layer of protection from multitude viruses and rootkit infections. It detects up to 99% of all known threats and doesn't slow down your PC performance at all. Thanks to the fully-fledged behavioral blocker, AVG AntiVrus turns in a good score in malware-blocking test and does a great cleanup job. When required, it performs a complete scan of your system and prevents any intruders trying to install itself without you knowing.

Avira Free Antivirus

Avira Free AntivirusAvira Free Antivirus

This is another freeware solution to look for threats and eliminate them from your Windows system. It features a powerful virus scanner with outstanding detection rates of malware and has a decent scanner speed that will free you from infinite waiting. Still, in spite of its comprehensiveness, Avira Free Antivirus doesn't support e-mail or web scanning capabilities, which means that the app won't warn you of infected e-mails. Besides, the program holds an irritating advertising window that pop ups every time when it updates.

Panda Cloud Antivirus

Panda Cloud AntivirusPanda Cloud Antivirus

This lightweight, cloud-based tool will offer you a real-time protection which is generally very high. Panda Cloud Antivirus can work alongside with other security utilities without any issues and removes every intruder that comes across. As the program applies cloud technology to get a quicker release of updates, it is able to do its job only when your Internet connection is working. Some may consider it to be a real downside, while for me it's confusing why people need an antivirus when they're offline.

COMODO Internet Security

COMODO Internet SecurityCOMODO Internet Security

Another security application that will protect you from various threat sources. It comes as a bundled firewall and antivirus program, allowing you to install both of them or just choose the needed one. The Firewall controls your connection traffic in real time, maintains the list of known malware, and detects any security leak. Additionally, the program comprises Defence+ technology aimed to protect critical system files and block malware before it installs.

Which one would you use to protect your PC?
 
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Guest
Like the Avast antivirus, no other antivirus can protect and register by Facebook account. Avast is the best ever.

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Guest
No one has said Comodo,shame on you.

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Guest
Just Avast.

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Durl Dutt
AVG was till 2012, then its Avast free antivirus but I don't like one thing here that it detects, blocks and delete too much without me allowing even for known files. At least, now MS SE is coming hard on Avast and its my best now. I have been using Antivirus since AVG antivirus 2004 till 2012! I tried many and left many. Trust me and try for yourself. MS SE is small but has one problem, it's the 1st time updating is to slow. Once done it's great, the best!

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Guest
Avast!

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Superstar Annu Yadav
Avast Premier 2014
Yahoo

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Aditi Maheshwari
Can I use more than one antivirus for PC?

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Guest
You wouldn't really want to because of the way AV software works. Most importantly, it will slow your system down and could slow it down to a crawl. Dirol

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Willie Maughan
Norton & McAfee are jokes, they slow down your system more than any virus can. I use AVG and love it.

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drkarthikeyandrk
Mcafee is the best one for all.

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Cyberbuilder
I would rather actually use either Norton, McAfee or Webroot.

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Guest
AVG is the best, quickest and easiest to use.

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Guest
Avast is the best.

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Guest
OK.

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Guest
Isn't there any comparison between Avast! and Kaspersky?

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Guest
AVAST keeps the system always safe without making any load to the system.

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Dharanidhar
Kaspersky is the top 2nd antivirus among all antiviruses.

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Guest
I'm using Avast since 2011. After using Avast, I forgot other antivirus software. Now using on my Android too.

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Guest
Microsoft Security Essentials is the best ever!

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Guest
4 and 3.

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Guest
Microsoft Security Essentials.

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Donald Bock
What about Bitdefender?

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Guest
Used Panda Cloud for about a year now, very effective even though often malware ends up in the quarantine for a day or two, awaiting a remedy to be found, but nothing has got through to the system. Both Panda and AVG have a long history of making good, free antivirus software, personally I have found them both very useful over the years (late nineties) as a long-time high-end average PC user. Never had a serious infection on any computer with any of their security software installed.

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Patrick McDonald
Avast for me and all my customers, it's free and really works well. Few users need something else, besides excepting updates to the program and, best of all, the boot time scan is great.

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Tanka
Cool!

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Guest
Windows Defender.

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Carole Smith
After an extensive research on the web I chose Avast.

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Shayan Javed
Avira.

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Guest
Avast.

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Daniel S
Where's Windows Defender?

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Guest
Avast, no doubt.

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Avast.

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Referenced Windows applications

AVG AntiVirus Free
FREE
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Protects your computer from viruses, spyware, ransomware, and other malware.

Avira Free Antivirus
FREE
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A free antivirus protecting your computer against all kinds of malware.

COMODO Internet Security
FREE
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Award-winning Comodo Firewall and Antivirus protection for PCs. Free for life.

Panda Cloud Antivirus
FREE
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Panda Cloud Antivirus is a real-time antivirus and antispyware program.

avast! Free Antivirus
FREE
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It enables you to protect your computer against viruses.

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