Best free antivirus

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