Antivirus software

I need to cut thru all of the garbage and find a good free antivirus/hijack/spyware program. Where/whom can I trust?

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tim@...

7th Aug 2008

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There are a lot, and i mean alot

of good free security products out there. Many are not free in a business environment, but only in a home environment.

Completely free:
Spybot S&D (antimalware) http://tinyurl.com/2c4c69
CCleaner (computer reg and general clean up)http://www.ccleaner.com/
Process Monitor, AutoRuns, RootkitRevealer (malwware spoting and removing) http://tinyurl.com/2huxp3
ClamWin (AV, on demand only) http://www.clamwin.com/

Free for home use:
AVG (Antivirus only)http://tinyurl.com/59tlx2
Antivir (AV, but no mail scanning on free version) http://tinyurl.com/2v2om2
Avast! (have to register to keep going free after a month) http://tinyurl.com/8z9h5
HijackThis! (Spot malware and trojans)http://tinyurl.com/5ygxs
Asquared (and a2cmd) (trojan/malware scan and remove)http://tinyurl.com/2gb93
There are several im forgetting atm but Im sure someone will post some more goodies.

Dumphrey

Updated - 7th Aug 2008

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It appears Avast needs to be re-registered on a yearly basis now. I have been running it for a couple of years on multiple machines and have been prompted to register twice for each copy I run.

boxfiddler 7th Aug 2008

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Really depends on what you want to use this for

If the above list isn't enough post back with some more details but what has been provided above are probably the better ones that you are asking about.

Col

OH Smeg

7th Aug 2008