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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

can anyone tell me the best free antivirus out there, as I have tried a few, but after a trial run they want cash, there must be totally free ones out there.

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By *irdie972Man
over a year ago

forfar


"can anyone tell me the best free antivirus out there, as I have tried a few, but after a trial run they want cash, there must be totally free ones out there. "

AVG is free and never had any issues with it, never asks for money and updates are all free, used it for over 20 years in IT industry.

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By *helma_richardsCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Penicillin ?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"can anyone tell me the best free antivirus out there, as I have tried a few, but after a trial run they want cash, there must be totally free ones out there.

AVG is free and never had any issues with it, never asks for money and updates are all free, used it for over 20 years in IT industry."

have tried avg, but only get free trials, they don't last long.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Penicillin ?"

had to get a few wise cracks, lol.

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By *irdie972Man
over a year ago

forfar

AVG is free for ever!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"AVG is free for ever!!"

ok will try again, there are so many avg ones on list, suppose I better look for the right one, thanks anyway.

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By *irdie972Man
over a year ago

forfar

Download from www.filehippo.com or plenty other free anti virus on that site too

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Download from www.filehippo.com or plenty other free anti virus on that site too"

Thanks Birdie, will check it out.

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By *irdie972Man
over a year ago

forfar

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Dumbarton

avast is another if you'd like a choice

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By *oznrayCouple
over a year ago

helensburgh

I've used avg free for years as well never had any issues it will pop up and ask you to upgrade to the pay version but just ignore it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I've used avg free for years as well never had any issues it will pop up and ask you to upgrade to the pay version but just ignore it"

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Thanks for your help everyone, sorted now.

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By *ary_ArgyllMan
over a year ago

Argyll


" Thanks for your help everyone, sorted now. "

Another option is just to turn on Windows Defender which comes free with Windows - in comparison testing it is pretty good.

Make sure you enable the auto updates so it downloads new virus signatures regularly.

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By *ola cubesMan
over a year ago

coatbridge

May be wrong but defender is more geared to spyware and spam filtering not really for ati virus

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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow


" Thanks for your help everyone, sorted now. "

Hope you didn't use Filehippo, last time I used it it tried to download a load of rubbish!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I worked in IT with a hacker who swears by AVG his machines all have the free version on them

If it's good enough for him then it works for me and I've been using it since I first seriously needed protection

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yup, been using AVG for years too.

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By *andy_FraserTV/TS
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Like others I've used AVG for years, however like any free software is does have down-sides.

Updates, unless it's for a "big name" virus are a few days later than the premium/paid members, and the amount of pop-ups and adverts for its own products can become annoying.

Two things you can learn to ignore, but still may be enough to put some people off.

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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow


"Like others I've used AVG for years, however like any free software is does have down-sides.

Updates, unless it's for a "big name" virus are a few days later than the premium/paid members, and the amount of pop-ups and adverts for its own products can become annoying.

Two things you can learn to ignore, but still may be enough to put some people off."

Had used free AVG for years but recently put free Avast on a new laptop, just because of the number of pop-ups I was getting from AVG. However, I think it might have calmed down a bit recently, on my desktop.

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By *pinCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Avg is probably best long as you don't mind the odd pop up. Otherwise just combine Windows defender with malware bytes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've also used AVG for years.

Can be a bit of a pain in the arse with pop-ups but I'm sure there will be a way to remove them.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Avast is the best for me. Combine it with Super Antispyware free an Malwarebytes Free and you have trouble free computing

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By *argaidMan
over a year ago

glasgow

I used avg for years but switched to Avast as it gets consistently higher ratings in tests. Windows Defender is consistently bottom of the pile so sling it a deafy.

All the free ones have become more prone to popups of late.

AVG, when you install the free one will offer you a trial of the full version. At the end you jab the option to go back to the free version. Every now and again you'll get another trial.

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By *iggydm69Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Bought a new laptop on Saturday how much is the pay version of AVG per year folks ?

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