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Windows Forum / Windows XP / General Topics 2 / January 2008Free Virus Protection Software
Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with XP, has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? From: "Cinderella" <Cinderella@discussions.microsoft.com> | Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with XP, | has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE  SignatureDave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm I personally use Avast Home Edition and it's free. Another free one people use is called AVG. > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with > XP, > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? There are several good free AV programs. AVG from Grisoft has a very good reputation. AVG Free Advisor: AVG Anti-Virus Free: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 SignatureRonnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with XP, > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? There are several good free AV programs. AVG from Grisoft has a very good reputation. AVG Free Advisor: AVG Anti-Virus Free: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 SignatureRonnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with > XP, > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? Although I believe that Avast is a great Anti-virus also, I second the recommendation of AVG. A direct download can be had here: http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free/setup/avg71free_408a815.exe Dave H. > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible > with XP, has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? Questions about "best" garner opinions, not answers. And when you ask for opinions, you get a bunch of different ones. That said, I'll give you my opinion. I run Avast on all my machines and install it on others I support. I'm happy with it. SignatureKen Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup I thank you all for your answers. I apologize if I am not in the right catagory here but I am having trouble navagating thru this help site. so I am going to go with this and see what kind of response I get now. My problem now is that I tried to download the "AVG Free edition" of virus software and receive the following error messages. "some installation files are corrupt. Please download a fresh copy and retry the installation". I press "OK" and the following message appears "CRC failed in files.dat. unexpected end of archive". So I go into control panel to uninstall avg but nothing is there. There is however at the top of my list of programs a box with no identification words, only a picture of a small computer and underneith it a picture of a disk. Nothing else to describe what this program may be??????? now what????? > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with XP, > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? Try the AVG support forums: http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/ >I thank you all for your answers. I apologize if I am not in the right > catagory here but I am having trouble navagating thru this help site. so I [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> XP, >> has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? the same thing happened to me when i tried to download AVG from 2 different websites. Here's the website where the AVG download works: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 > I thank you all for your answers. I apologize if I am not in the right > catagory here but I am having trouble navagating thru this help site. so I am [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Can you tell me which "Free Virus Protection" program is compatible with XP, > > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? Cinderella, I believe the AVG program ceases to be freeware from next month. You might like to try Avast, which you can download from : http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html It seems to work well, and the automatic updates are so unobtrusive, you don't know they've arrived until a dialogue box tells you. HTH, Jim > the same thing happened to me when i tried to download AVG from 2 > different [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] >> > with XP, >> > has the best coverage and is an easy program to follow? > I believe the AVG program ceases to be freeware from next month. Nope. 7.1 Free will no longer be supported, but 7.5 Free willl be! Is it a bad idea to run more than one virus protection program on the same machine? Will they conflict with each other? I've had terrible problems with symantec, and recently reinstalled windows. I also installed PCTools Spy Doctor. > > I believe the AVG program ceases to be freeware from next month. > > Nope. 7.1 Free will no longer be supported, but 7.5 Free willl be! Thanks, Jack! I didn't have them installed at the same time. They were installed run separately. > Is it a bad idea to run more than one virus protection program on the same > machine? It's fine as long as you don't run them both at the same time. If you do that, they may conflict with each other. > Will they conflict with each other? Very likely, if run at the same time. > I've had terrible problems > with symantec, Join the club. It's probably the single worst security product on the market. SignatureKen Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup Thanks, Ken. Based on previous advice in this thread, I installed the trial version of Avast on my son's new computer. It was still running the trial version of symantec that came with the computer. After I installed Avast, I could not connect to the internet. I uninstalled it, and was able to connect. Do you think that this problem is related to having both programs on the same machine? Symantec starts up automatically, so they were running simultaneously although I was not using symantec to run a scan. Or, is there some other setting with avast that I should deal with? (firewall, etc). I couldn't find any troubleshooting advice on the avast web site. thanks in advance for your patience > > Is it a bad idea to run more than one virus protection program on the same > > machine? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Join the club. It's probably the single worst security product on the > market. > Thanks, Ken. Based on previous advice in this thread, I installed the trial > version of Avast on my son's new computer. It was still running the trial [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Do you think that this problem is related to having both programs on the > same machine? Very likely. I run Avast on all my computers here, without any problems at all. > Symantec starts up automatically, so they were running > simultaneously although I was not using symantec to run a scan. It's still running in the background. By the way, in my view, and that of many of us here, Norton Antivirus is the single worst anti-virus program there is. Avast is *much* better. If I were in your shoes, I would keep Avast and dump NAV instead. > Or, is there some other setting with avast that I should deal with? > (firewall, etc). I couldn't find any troubleshooting advice on the avast web [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Join the club. It's probably the single worst security product on the > > market. 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