Which is the best FREE and PAID antivirus..??

dear friends..
recently one of my friend got badly duped by buying norton antivirus 2008 original and finally getting an error while activation (invalid key..already used)..

please is despair he is out to hunt for another antivirus.. but which one..

please post ur preferences for the best free and paid antivirus (according to u)..

waiting

SUDE

AVIRA ANTIVIR, AVAST, AVG (freeware)

ESET NOD32, KASPERSKY (paid)

Best Free Anti-virus : avast!Home Edition

Best Paid Anti-virus : Kaspersky

AVG 8 rox.
Free or paid... the best option for Indian viruses (like that New Folder application virus)... even kaspersky leaves them alone!!!!

For free AVG8 is the best.

For paid either Kaspersky or Eset Nod32

Virii do not differentiate between Indians and others

NOD32 is the best value for the money.

Free : Avira Antivir Classic
Paid : Avira Antivir PE and Kaspersky AV.

Check out tests done by av-comparatives.org and av-test.org if you want confirmation. They are the best AV comparision websites.

AVG 8.00 is best .... with BitDefender v10.00 Free Edition..

A

for free use avira antivir and paid quickheal or kaspersky.

Free --> Use Avast Home or AVG

Paid --> Nod32 or Kaspersky

Avast Home is best free AV available.

For paid Kaspersky. I loved kaspersky so much that I bought a Legal copy for my laptop

, going for a second copy for my PC

M

guys sorry to interupt....bt do not create unnecessary threads when they are already there...*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75702

a lot of cost is incurred in maintaning these forums, so lets nt waste any space..!!
tc

M

Best Paid Anti-virus = Kaspersky
Best free Antivirus.. = Avast

avg 8.0

abhijangda said:
for free use avira antivir and paid quickheal or kaspersky.

Quickheal dint even pass virus bulletin test in my knowledge.

with a antivirus (avg 8)
you also need spyware,malware and registry fixer
like spybot s&d, spyware terminator & regcure
these softwares are totally free and regularly updates virus definition
If someone wants links to download these softwares
links -
avg - 8
*free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

spybot s&d
*www.freedownloadsplace.com/Downloading-Server1-Spybot-Search-and-Destroy-15824

spyware terminator
*www.freedownloadsplace.com/Downloading-Server1-Spyware-Terminator-15825

regcure-
If you have limewire search for regcure in programs tab, download regcure 1.5.0.0 + crack.rar

Advanced windows care

*download.iobit.com/AWC3Setup_beta2.exe

Zone Alarm ( best firewall)

*www.freedownloadsplace.com/Downloading-Server1-ZoneAlarm-15875

i hope u all are happy now (especially dheeraj)

If you have links, post it here dude, a forum is for sharing, not for making personal chat rooms.

dheeraj_kumar said:
If you have links, post it here dude, a forum is for sharing, not for making personal chat rooms.

You can get free extended trials (mostly 6 months) for many av softwares. I have listed them here.

S

Avast Home edition rocks which is free.
Not aware of any good paid antivirus software

and yeah... never go for Norton and McAfee if you really want to protect your PC from viruses and still wish to work on your PC. Norton eats too much system resources.

N

Advanced Windows Care V2 in combination with Spyware Terminator both are FREE downloads from Cnet works well to remove/guard-against most of the worms and malware

Thanks Indyan, for the KIS license site

A

ajaybc said:
avg 8.0

Quickheal dint even pass virus bulletin test in my knowledge.

didn't you read the full article. Avast also didn't passed it coz. 1 false positives, it did'nt even passed the previuos test coz. 19 wildest miss. Quickheal also didn't passed previous 2 tests coz 2 and 1 false positives. Even kaspersky didn't pass the test coz 1 false positives. just see the detection rate friend QuickHeal is having 100% rate. And my experience with it for more than 2 years is also good.

Avast 4.7 free home edition is now 4.8 and the best part is that it's still free and even better..it also works with Vista...I just renewed my free license a week back...very happy with it and definitely recommend it...

^^ I'm sorry to say that Quick Heal is dead. And I think you have to read the antivirus reviews now, since you just rated kaspersky bad, and from what I see on virus bulletin, quck heal performed worse than kaspersky. lol dude lern2red before blaming other software. The fact that you're a quick heal fanboy is proved by *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52438

I'm not blaming you for anything, just that you should try an antivirus for around 1-2 months in order to get a good view about it.

My vote for kaspersky 7.0.....best suitable antivirus for home users........

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dheeraj_kumar said:
^^ I'm sorry to say that Quick Heal is dead. And I think you have to read the antivirus reviews now, since you just rated kaspersky bad, and from what I see on virus bulletin, quck heal performed worse than kaspersky. lol dude lern2red before blaming other software. The fact that you're a quick heal fanboy is proved by *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52438

I'm not blaming you for anything, just that you should try an antivirus for around 1-2 months in order to get a good view about it.

U haven't understands me. I am not saying that kaspersky is worse than quickheal. Both are good and they have 100% detection rate and how can you say that quickheal has performed bad than kaspersky. Kaspersky has performed bad. Calculate percentage of quickheal success this is 73.33% and that of kaspersky it is 61%. So which one is better and one more thing quickheal has good features than kav.

avg 8.0 free detected 13 threats(1 virus & 12 trojans) on my system which kasperky 7.0 with all updates previously didnt. avg improved??