Are Free Antivirus Programs As Good As Their Commercial Counterparts?
January 1st, 2010 | by Frenday |I’m considering using free antivirus after my current subscription runs out and want to know if it’s the real deal. Pros and cons please. And yes searching similar questions didn’t yield any good, conclusive answers.
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7 Responses to “Are Free Antivirus Programs As Good As Their Commercial Counterparts?”
By Darksied on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
I have found that Avast Anti-Virus is great. It is a commercial application that has been made freely avaliable to home users. They still have a very strong user base comercially and as they deal with companies are very up to date on their pattern files. Most of your Anti-Virus software that comes from your Broadband/Dial-up provider is very stable and well updated. I would probally stay well away from GPL or Community developed Virus Protection, as you are only as safe as the company that makes it.
Avast: Http://www.avast.com
By zaskie on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
try AVG, its very good antivirus, keeps the definitions up to date.
By JimmyR.c on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
Panda seemed to have detected the most viruses, from personal experience. I have a list of em at http://www.jimmyr.com/security.php I don’t even use an active virus scan, but every once in awhile I scan using multiple online scanners.
No scanner is best. They all use complicated algorithms to detect viruses quickly, that’s why its best to use several. Emule has a few antiviruses…
If you do renew a subscription, buy from amazon or online. Its much cheaper.
I dont like AVG, it’s the worst of the lemmings. I dont like Norton at all because its notorious for booting problems. Avast is new, I tried the corporate edition and it performed as good as panda except it had additional protections for email and firewall.
By redsoxer on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
Yes, many are even better than their commercial counterparts.
Here’s one of the best:http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
By RT on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
of course Commerical Version is much better than free one. But for normal home use, some of the Free version is good enought to protect you as long as the free version have the fuction to update the virus data regularly.
My recommended is also Avast home edition
By Raul on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
I use AVG free it is GREAT at detecting viruses but sucky at cleaning them. I have to download a separate program to clean viruses. Also on the avg website btw
By recycle_ on Jan 1, 2010 | Reply
Generally the free software is better than the paid software. The purpose behind paid software is money. The purpose behind free software is simply GOOD SOFTWARE.