I'm going to tell you which free antivirus program I chose. Until now I was using Bit Defender, a commercial solution. Will I find a freeware alternative?
I've tested three free antivirus solutions: AVG, Antivir and Avast!. After some quick considerations I chose... Avast! Although it doesn't provide e-mail scan, everything else is quite ok, including the reasonable memory usage during the real-time protection. It provides anti-spyware protection and anti-rootkit protection too, and it's quite simple to use.
Right before my system crash I scanned everything with Bit Defender and it didn't find any threats. Now I'm going to use Avast!, I'm curious to see if it finds something.
Well, surprise: it found about 9 threats and deleted all of them. I was quite satisfied with Avast!, it's easy to use and goes lightly on the system resources. Bit Defender? Goodbye!
You can download Avast! from here, it's free!
| My Evaluation | 8.5 |
| Operating System | Windows All |
| Size | 23.1 MB |
| Author | ALWIL Software |
| Version Tested | 4.8HomeEdition |
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