Best free antivirus software

[JayG]

What the best around the moment?

I know that as it's free it'll be basic but my sister isn't in a postion to renew her McAfee at the mo, well it was due a while ago & I think this might be linked to the problems with her email sending out spam.

Thanks

[Pilgrim]

Hello JayG, I believe that ZONEALARM do a free edition of their antivirus program, just google "free download Zonealarm"

[Suein10b]

Avast is the one I use.

[JayG]

Thanks folks i'll check them out.

[Heather Positive Thinker]

On the techi board of Martin Lewis they say Avira is best freebie? AVG is very out of favour now.

If you have internet banking with Barclays you can get a free Kaspersky internet suite.

[JayG]

Thanks for both of those Heather.

My mum has & pays for Norton, she banks with Barclays so i'll tell her about Kaspersky & save her some money!

[Christine in Portugal]

The free Kaspersky from Barclays will probably be a 3 user licence.

If your mum doesn't have 3 computers, you will be able to use one of them on yours.

[JayG]

Thanks for the info Christine, deffo need to get mum to follow that up then.

[Linda from Murton]

I use Avast which is free. It updates itself whenever. It has proved exceptional for me. If you access their website be sure to look for the free version. Good luck.

[JayG]

Thanks Linda

[Joy123]

interesting thread, if I download Avast, do I have to delete AVG?

Joyce

[JayG]

I would deleted it Joy, i've read somewhere about it having a negative effect having 2 antivirus programs running along side each other.

[Linda from Murton]

It is definitely not a good idea to have two antivirus programs running at the same time. There is a big difference between "delete" and "uninstall". You do not delete a program you uninstall/remove it. To uninstall go to Control Panel and find the Add/Remove Programs list. Find the program you are looking for and remove or uninstall.

If you are going to get a new antivirus uninstall/remove the old antivirus program first. Otherwise you will get a conflict.

[margaretmarch]

I use AVG9 free version and have had no problems whatsoever (so far!).
Margaret