Free Antivirus Software

my notebook came with a free 3 month Norton trial and after I installed AVG and guess what it picked up viruses also my laptop speed went up i occasionally scan it with other AV software just out of curiosity and so far no Virus infections as to spyware spybot 1.4 does a decent job i wouldnt advise MS anti Spyware it doesnt remove any MS related stuff like msn extras or the stuff in media player i also run an adaware scan every week, yes i`m paraniod lol but i`m online 80% of my time and dnt need the inconveniance of an attack and if u want some extra security ditch the windows firewall and get Zone Alarm or 1 of the other good free ones.
 
Gothan said:
Yip also use avast, off all the anti virusses, they have the best newsgroup scanner IMHO. Most free antivirus proggies dont even bother to include a news article scanner. Now if you now of a good free anti spyware program (except microsoft), please feel free to share
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1) I'm an AVG reseller, and I've never had issues at all with the software, especially not their corporate stuff. Runs like clockwork!
2) Great free spyware removal is SpyBot S&D. Got a whole whack of tools in advanced mode. (http://www.safer-networking.org/)
 
Yes, Norton sucks, 2003 was so much more bloated and resource hogging than 2002 and it gets worse every year.

I find AVG is good. (havent tried the others, so cant comment on them.)

And for spyware protection I use Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, Spyware Blaster (it is more of a inoculation, doesn't do scans) and Microsoft AntiSpyware (which I schedule to do scans twice a week), the first two i do a scan with once a month.
 
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tried avast - too much background stuff.

Gone back to AVGfree - vhappy with it
 
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