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  • August 7, 2008 at 6:32 am #2153864

    Antivirus software

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    by tim · about 14 years, 5 months ago

    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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    • August 7, 2008 at 6:32 am #2932466

      Clarifications

      by tim · about 14 years, 5 months ago

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      Clarifications

    • August 7, 2008 at 6:42 am #2932462

      There are a lot, and i mean alot

      by dumphrey · about 14 years, 5 months ago

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      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.

      • August 7, 2008 at 3:27 pm #2915861

        FYI…

        by boxfiddler · about 14 years, 5 months ago

        In reply to There are a lot, and i mean alot

        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.

    • August 7, 2008 at 10:02 am #2915951

      Really depends on what you want to use this for

      by oh smeg · about 14 years, 5 months ago

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      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

    • November 5, 2009 at 10:06 am #2840416

      Free basic antivirus program from Grisoft

      by rcisowski1 · about 13 years, 2 months ago

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