Free Antivirus

[funkysourav]

it'll tax his system. only 512Mb of DDR ram & a slow (& HOT) P4.



MBAM is good. but i'll suggest using Emsisoft AntiMalware (its trial but has freeware mode) as scanner.

WOT is for Google Chrome only, i think or is available for Firefox also? also Comodo Firewall have sandbox builtin. but not sure if its as effective as Sandboxie.



a very good suggestion. yes pendrive is the major source for virus but yes, i have (from my personal experience) found that some virus/worms stick to the end of the file system, or say are detected when the scanning is at 99%. so using smart extension helps (skipping .avi, .mp3, etc extensions).

Avira wont tax his system(it is the best for anyone IMO)
Panda cloud Free is little less system intensive(but not recommended)
Wot is available for all browsers(IE,Opera,Chrome,FF)+McAfee SiteAdvisor+Prevx Safe online Facebook Free
Sandboxie is more effective and multipurpose than Comodo Sandbox
Online Armor Free is a good option for firewall(less nagging)

and the BIGGIE "Winpatrol Free"(light HIPS)


else if you register at Computerbild.de(german site)
they give away free Kaspersky 2010(valid for 3 months) every 3 months
this giveaway(fully legitimate) is in collaboration with Kaspersky Germany
and is available only for Computerbild subscribers

 

[coderunknown]

are you talking about avira free edition - well it won't tax his system bcoz I've used it with the same config.

personally I think avast is a bit taxing on the system resource and AVG too.

no. AVG. i highlighted it.

Avast falls between Avira & AVG when it comes to eating up cpu power & memory. also in detection.

 

[funkysourav]

@all,OP
I don't think we should recommend AVG to anyone
the AV Comparatives report speaks volumes about its ineffectiveness
Avira and Avast are the only choices now, it seems(in free)
also if you look at the Kaspersky 2011 scores, they are dismal at best
and are surpassed even by Avast free

 

[topgear]

^^ good suggestion.

 

[funkysourav]

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/133079-free-antivirus.html#post1291569
@topgear
what do you think of this post?
AFAIK its legal
it may serve beneficial for Kaspersky lovers

personally
i would never ditch Avira and Comodo for anything else
Avira Antivir Personal uses the same engine as its Premium Counterpart,
but its updates are less in frequency(which isn't much difference IMO)
missing only a Webguard, which can be easily replaced by Prevx,WOT combo

@all
can anyone suggest a better alternative to Comodo?

 

[coderunknown]

^^ Outpost Firewall. just its paid. however i never used it. used Zone Alarm, Comodo, PC Tools Firewall+, Sygate (or something like that) & lastly online armor. Comodo look best of all. just one need configure it a bit.

 

[topgear]

@ funkysourav - I've seen people running KIS and it's very slow - also it slows down the booting process of windows -

I use several combos ( at least they are all installed )

Avira Free, Comodo firewall, Spybot Search and Destroy ( though the scanning is slow it's DB is just robust ), Malware bytes antimalware ( I was once a beta tester of this app ), Spyware terminator, spyware blaster and of course opera and my common sense - I think it's the best way to be virus free

 

[coderunknown]

is Spybot S&D good? better than the tons of spyware scanners available? also hows spyware terminator? i used once & dumped it forever. mainly cause one have to manually download update thats around 30-40Mb (first time but its way too large for me as a GPRS user).

 

[topgear]

The large update size of ST is a great issue.

Spybot S&D updates very fast and can scan tons of spywares or malicious contents but it's scanning is very slow and cpu usage is very high as compared to other similar products.

 

[coderunknown]

yes, & i download the update manually (they have an option for manual update) but ST didn't take it. so it was a waste. very moment kicked it out of my system & deleted the setup file. i have much better apps to take care of my security.

ok thanks about the S&D's info. i was doubtful about it since its been a long time since a new version rolled out. heard the tea timer setting (or protection maybe, forgotten) is very good. however never got the chance to see it in action.