OMO - free antivirus choice?

In order

Avast...It's simply brilliant.
Comodo.
Microsoft Security Essentials (Surprisingly good).
Avira Antivir.
AVG only as a last resort. Seen it miss plenty of stuff.

Comodo

Ok, so I've been using Avast for about a year and I'd like to know why so many find it brilliant?

It seems to never actually be up to date (I'm exagerating) but it seems it needs to update the virus database at least twice a day. Which effectively uses up all on my RAM and locks my computer for 20 mins twice a day.

Mind you I haven't got a virus this year so at lest there's that.

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[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Berlin

Ok, so I've been using Avast for about a year and I'd like to know why so many find it brilliant?

It seems to never actually be up to date (I'm exagerating) but it seems it needs to update the virus database at least twice a day. Which effectively uses up all on my RAM and locks my computer for 20 mins twice a day.

Mind you I haven't got a virus this year so at lest there's that.

C

Your computer has 10mb of ram? Is it a calculator?

Seriously though avast is currently using 8mb ram max on my system.

I use Comodo & haven't had any problems. I did use Kaspersky for a while but it kept blocking the dodgy websites I like visiting!

I also regularly scan with malwarebytes.

[L3nny]

I just use Windows defender or whatever it's called but then I don't really care if I get a virus as it only takes 20 mins to rebuild my laptop.

[Tomor]

Avast. The boot scan works well if someone has a virus and you can get it to do a boot scan.

[embee]

Great stuff orgers, that's about as good a recommendation as anyone could hope for.

Will look at installing Avast when this subscription runs out. Cheers all!

seen far to many problems on other peoples computers and problems missed with the free stuff,for a few pounds you can get norton antivirus and get full protection all the time,no matter how dodgy you web surfing is,all done and updated with out any faffing about

[kaivalagi]

Norton aint all that good to be honest, plus it uses shed loads of resources...but you are not entirely wrong, there are some good ones out there for a few quid...last time I checked Kaspersky was up at the top of the list. Avast is a good anti-virus though, regardless of being free or not

Of course the best option to to not run Windows at all....I'm currently surfing with LinuxMint and have no anti-virus installed....the only reason I need Windows for is to mess with Garmin tools, run updates for my devices such as gps/phone/tablets etc and use TuneECU for my bikes...