Free virus protection

[kingkrazy]

I have a Dell PC that came with free virus protection and am happy with it. The problem is that I also run two laptops off my home network that currently don't have any virus protection. I have heard from people that there is some free virus protection on the internet, but am a little sceptical of them doing more harm than good. Any suggestions? The VP I have for my desktop is Trend-micro PC -cillin. I had never heard of it before getting it on this system, but things seem to be going good with it. I use Verizon for my DSL, do they have something I could use as well?

[rinkrat]

AVG Free - Download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition for Windows XP and Vista

[kaos]

Originally Posted by rinkrat

AVG Free - Download AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition for Windows XP and Vista

Agreed

[mudfisher]

I dont think it works for Vista as they claim yet.. I was unable to install due to corrupted/missing files from the download.

[quix]

Originally Posted by mudfisher

I dont think it works for Vista as they claim yet.. I was unable to install due to corrupted/missing files from the download.

Try downloading again from a different mirror (if available). You can always try Free virus protection for your home PC as well.

[job]

Avast! seems to work very well with my Vista machine. On all previous OS' I used AVG, but it just doesn't get along very well with Vista.

[Rebar71]

x3 for AVG

[FishMonger]

A friend of mine in the computer field says Avast! is the best free one out there. Add one more vote.

[kingkrazy]

Installed AVG 8.0 and things seem to be working great. Thanks All

[taz42]

I've used AVG for years and will download it once again as soon as the virus protection that came with this new pc has expired. AVG is the best!!

[BeerMan]

why wait til it expires?

is it Norton? your patience will expire first.

this 3 year old machine came with Norton, which would expire within a year. but after 1 month, I scraped (yes, scraped) it off and put AVG on.

[borinka99]

Is norton really that bad? I have Norton 360 (that I got for free from a buddy). Should I get rid of it and just use AVG?

[BeerMan]

well, if it's not bogging down your PC, you should be fine.

that is unless you never had a system running without Norton...

[taz42]

Originally Posted by BeerMan

why wait til it expires?

is it Norton? your patience will expire first.

this 3 year old machine came with Norton, which would expire within a year. but after 1 month, I scraped (yes, scraped) it off and put AVG on.

Beerman, It was McGafee and thanks to you, I uninstalled and got good ole AVG back.

[WingHater]

AVG is great. 8.0 hasn't given me any problems.

[Bubbadel2]

AVG is bogging both my laptop and my wifes laptop...im not really happy with it right now...

[SloMo26]

AVG 8.0 is not letting me print anything from IE 7. Must be a bug in one of the updates. Firefox is fine but even still I switched to Avast 4.8.