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Old February 2nd, 2006, 05:50 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Free Antivirus & Antispyware...

And the best (free) antivirus and antispyware programs are...

(List what you think)


I suppose I have a question also: Why is antivirus software and antispyware software separated? It's all the same to me; I want it off. So why doesn't someone just combine the two?

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Old February 2nd, 2006, 05:57 PM     #2 (permalink)
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IMO avast! 4.6 for home users is definately the best free antivorus software out there... as for anti-spyware I use MS Anti-Spyware Beta 1 and, even though it's made by M$, so far it works fine....
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Old February 2nd, 2006, 05:59 PM     #3 (permalink)
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They are ... I beleive Norton and Mcaffee both have combined software out now, or coming out.

I use AVG Free Edition at home ... http://free.grisoft.com

and for Spyware .. I use a variety of programs

Adaware ... http://www.lavasoft.com
Spybot ... http://www.safer-networking.org
Hijackthis ... http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/


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Old February 2nd, 2006, 05:59 PM     #4 (permalink)
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Avast is the best AV IMO

And I like spybot S&D, but it doesn't find as much spyware as Ad-Aware...
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Old February 2nd, 2006, 06:00 PM     #5 (permalink)
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Avast,AVG,spybot,and Adaware.

Actually this question belongs in the security section, but You will find those to be very common answers as well as a few more you will no doubt hear.
http://www.techimo.com/forum/f80/index.html
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I've heard that AVG uses minimal resources. In terms of resource consumption, how would you rate AVG, Avast!, and perhaps other software you prefer?
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Old February 2nd, 2006, 06:05 PM     #7 (permalink)
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I have been using AVG for several years now. There are nearly daily updates and I have never been hit by a virus. Doesn't seem to be a resource-hog either.
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Well I run AVG on a AMD 2700+ with over a gig of RAM .. So i ma not to concerned with resources atleast in terms of my Antivirus. As well I have not used Avast either so I can't comment.

I can say though, both Spybot and Adaware have monitoring software that can run in the background looking constantly for spyware, much like antivirus. I don't use anything like that, so it cuts down on my resource usage.

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Old February 2nd, 2006, 06:08 PM     #9 (permalink)
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I'm running a gig of RAM too on my personal machine. The family pc has only 512 mb RAM but has no trouble with AVG
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Old February 2nd, 2006, 06:13 PM     #10 (permalink)
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AVG takes about 20mb RAM...its nothing. 512mb RAM and i play BF2 fine(lowest settings maybe, but still...). I prefer AVG, i did use avast a while ago, but i didn't compare it(wasn't into it back then).

Make sure you have a good fire-wall, IMO the best FREE firewall is ZoneAlarm. The pro version is amazing, but im not looking for the extra bits lol.

I use MS anti-spyware, SpyBot, Adaware and cool web-shredder for anti-spyware.

EDIT- 20mb RAM, not 4mb(thats low 4mb...lol). Looked at only 1 of 4 proccesses by AVG!

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