is there any TRULY free antivirus and adware removal programs?
I’ve looked around and everytime i want to download one, it tells me that it costs money, and if i don’t want to buy it, i could get it for free (but then i have to spend money on one of their offers to get it for free, and those are more expensive than the product themselves). So it’s NOT free! Is there any TRULY 100% free programs out there?
Tags: Adware, antivirus, Free, programs, Removal, there, TRULY
October 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
avg free 8.0
October 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
yes plenty
October 30th, 2009 at 12:42 am
PC Tools Antivirus works well for me
October 30th, 2009 at 1:12 am
probably not,commercialism at its best
October 30th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I use these free programs on my computer running XP..
Avast Home edition
Comodo BOClean
Spybot Search and Destroy
Superantispyware
Comodo Firewall Pro
Those are all free to use…. but truly free.. Clam AV is open source… but not good for average users.
The best way to not get viruses is too not use windows… switch to Mac, Linux (free, fast, stable, etc.), freebsd, etc.
October 30th, 2009 at 1:53 am
http://www.grisoft.com AVG
spybot search & destroy helps with malware.
Yahoo has Norton Antivirus.Check it out.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:30 am
I love either ad-aware by http://www.lavasoft.com (download) or http://www.bitdefender.com (free online scan tool, now with spyware killer)
October 30th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Yes, of course there are good free programs.
Anti-virus – AVG and Avast are just two of many
Anti-Spyware – Spybot Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster are just two among many.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Well, first of all, if you have Verizon DSL or Comcast you can get free anti-virus from them. Comcast I know offers a great mcaffee suite for free, you just have to sign up for it. If you don’t have free anti-virus through your ISP you can get Anti-Virus Guard for free here http://free.avg.com/ and as for free Adware scanners you can get either Adaware here http://www.lavasoftusa.com or Spybot Search and Destroy here http://www.safer-networking.org/
October 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am
avast! 4 Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
I have been using this since I’ve stopped paying for my Norton subscription. Its completely free, no shareware or ads, and updates constantly.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Adaware and Avira are pretty good. Of course they come with “full” versions that cost money but they’re free versions aren’t trials and are tough cookies for fighting viruses with. Spybot also comes with a few utilities that adaware and avira lack.
So in short.
Adaware
Avira
Spybot.
When in doubt, system restore and delete malicious files.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:06 am
AVG, and Avast.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:56 am
In my 50 years of existence coming from a time long before there was even the dream of a PC, I’ve at one time or another tried about every product out there.
I am REALLY impressed with a program named “Avast!”. You can use it for FREE for home use. Called Avast! 4.8 Home Edition. Straight up, one of the better programs (free or paid) available. For the last two (2) years, AV Comparisons have rated it higher than Norton, McAfee and Kasperski in detection rates based on available virus definitions. Avast! also provides “real-time” protection (always running in the background).
As for anti-spyware’s, Spybot S&D does offer “real-time” protection, but independent testing has confirmed that in the last several years, it’s detection rate has really fallen, and now is only considered only an “average” program at most. I am not aware of any decent real-time programs out there but I would highly recommend a program named “SUPERantispyware. It is completely free and offers some of the best spyware protection available. Just remember to do a manual scan every day or so.
Following is the correct links for both products:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
http://www.download.com/SUPERAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html
Good Luck !!!
EDIT: Forgot to tell you that “SpywareBlaster” can be a very effective program if you are using MS Internet Explorer (IE 7 or
but is really not that effective for other browsers, (i.e. Firefox)….. actually NOT recommended for any other browser except IE7 0r 8 !!!
October 30th, 2009 at 6:24 am
If you wanna get full security… Buy Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 or BitDefender…
Zone Alarm is also equally good…
If you cannot afford… use the following free programs, download, install, update and reboot into Safe Mode to scan:
Use Kaspersky Internet security 2009 trial version and rectify now…
http://www.kaspersky.com/internet_security_trial
or
Try Spyware doctor (free with google pack): http://pack.google.com/
Threat fire from http://www.threatfire.com/download/ (recommended)
Malware bytes from http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php (recommended) which helps you to prevent malicious programs…
Spyware terminator with web security guard n clam anti-virus (recommended) from http://www.spywareterminator.com/
SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition http://www.superantispyware.com/
To be safe…
Use malicious software removal program given by microsoft too from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Taskbar Repair Tool http://www.majorgeeks.com/Taskbar_Repair_Tool_Plus_d4307.html
Remove Restrictions Tool: http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/RRT-Remove-Ristrictions-Tool-Download-68926.html
Use site advisors (if you have free or paid version… You must have!!!)
WOT from http://www.mywot.com/
Mcafee site advisor form http://www.siteadvisor.com/
Web security guard which will be installed with Spyware Terminator
Calling ID with toolbar n Calling ID link advisor from
http://www.callingid.com/Default.aspx
Calling ID link advisor will also protect you from clicking bad untrusted links from your email inbox or others… Just place your cursor in that link n you can find that the link is safe or not… Don’t go to the sites listed dangerous by any one of this site advisors n also don’t download from them…
(remember all I’ve listed here are trusted, 100% free, safe n powerful programs!!!)
Relax and
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October 30th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Clamwin is 100% free
Download here
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/
How to configure ClamWin
http://support.real-time.com/open-source/clamwin/index.html
Install and schedule a daily scan.
It will keep your PC free from virus
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