I run AVG on that very same OS with no problems, as always YMMV. 
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Same. Other pay for anti-viruses I have used over the years haven't done any better of a job and have often slowed my system down.
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Originally Posted by Kinrad
I run AVG on that very same OS with no problems, as always YMMV.
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total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I'll third that sentiment, I use AVG, and look around the web here, there, n everywhere. Never gotten hit, AVG just plain WORKS.
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AVG was my goto antivirus product for quite a while... but I vaguely remember that for a while it was being dissed on several public forums... including this one. In the meantime I had been using a free version of CA Internet Security Suite provided by my ISP.... but it turns out that version doesn't work on Windows 7. (BTW, I agree somebody at my ISP deserves a kick in the tamales over this, but I digress).
Aside from AVG I was considering Avast, Avira (sp??)
Appreciate in advance any further input on this
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Although I used to use AVG, at some point I noticed it became a bit too bloated for my tastes. I'm now using Avira Antivir.
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Same here, it's got a nag screen that pops up once a day, but that's it.
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Although I used to use AVG, at some point I noticed it became a bit too bloated for my tastes. I'm now using Avira Antivir.
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I used to use AVG, but like others found it too bloated. Now Avast! is my anti-virus of choice. It's got a boot-time scan capability, a screen-saver virus scanner AND a much smaller footprint than AVG and it's a great product all around. I have a Windows Home Server, and I use the Avast Home Server Edition to monitor the anti-virus software on all my systems.
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This is over the top mental slavery.
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Avast, Antivir and AVG are probably the three best free ones. Out of the three Avast is the better one.
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This. ^^ I've been very happy with Avira, despite the occasional random false positive.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Although I used to use AVG, at some point I noticed it became a bit too bloated for my tastes. I'm now using Avira Antivir.
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I also used to use AVG but switched to Avast! I am an IT consultant and recommend it to all of my clients.
Edit: OTOH I have great respect for both Father Xmas and Bill Z. so I'll be checking into Avira now just to compare.
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I used and resale AVG which I recommend over Symantec and McAfee (hands down and twice on Sunday). We use Trend in the office. I have not tried Avira or Avast so I cannot comment on those.
I only have 2 suggestions. I have used the previous freebies but nothing is free on the internet. We tried avg and got a virus and it could not remove it. So no more freebies for me. I use TrendMicro Internet security. It is about 10 dollars on Ebay for a 3 license version. It not only will clean virus and spyware but will prevent infection. I also turn on parental controls to block websites to further inhance protection.
My second suggestion is a little known one. www.stopzilla.com
Bar none it is the best for removing persistant spyware, trojans, and virus infections. For a client that had the nail.exe trojan, I used everything I could try and it would reinfest each time. Stopzilla not only removed but marked everyfile that interacted with it then removed them all at the same time. It was rock solid. Another computer it removed 10000 infections, that was a record for me. Poor mother didnt know her son was into gay porn. Sorry!
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I have been using this as well.
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This.
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Although I used to use AVG, at some point I noticed it became a bit too bloated for my tastes. I'm now using Avira Antivir.
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Someone just posted in another thread that for them, MSE was the cause of huge delays until they went into MSE and put CoH on its exception list. Just FYI.
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I've been using AVG for awhile, myself. However...
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I have run into this problem once, at work, where AVG could not remove a particularly troublesome virus (and it was proving resistant to direct manual deletion and Killbox deletion as well). To that end, I keep Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware around. It's seemed to get the removal job done when other avenues fail.|
Originally Posted by Humbler
I only have 2 suggestions. I have used the previous freebies but nothing is free on the internet. We tried avg and got a virus and it could not remove it.
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I also use Spybot's immunization. Just 'cause.
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I've been installing this on every machine that needs an antivirus lately. It does a decent job and gets out of the user's way.
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I ditched AVG when it mistook CoH for a trojan.
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Thanks for the tip. Never gave me any problems, but it can't hurt to add.
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Someone just posted in another thread that for them, MSE was the cause of huge delays until they went into MSE and put CoH on its exception list. Just FYI.
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I've been using it for a while now, it gets pretty high marks from reviewers, Maximum PC just did a thing on AV programs and it was up there. I've tried AVG, and AntiVir. AVG got too bloated after a while, and I got tired of AntiVir's constant nagging.
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I've been installing this on every machine that needs an antivirus lately. It does a decent job and gets out of the user's way.
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I should give that a try. It started to annoy me a little when they switched AVG so I could no longer just shut off the various pieces in my Task Master. Good program, otherwise. Macafee and Norton were good for their day, but their day was a decade ago and they've become these monstrous system hogs I won't even look at anymore.
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Dec out.
If you're using 64 bit windows you will not get a virus. What you are worried about is spyware/malware and anything purporting itself to be an anti-virus doesn't necessarily watch for those. Believe me, one of my jobs is doing virus removals at a major PC retailer and most of the time the person whose machine I'm working on has AVG on it, and is riddled with malware.
Very few actual virus' work in the 64 bit environment, almost all malware does. Make sure whatever you settle on has a decent malware component. Last I looked into it, antivir and MSE came up on tops for malware, with antivir being preferred.
I use MSE. The others have paid versions. You're not going to give away what someone will pay you for. I don't trust the free version of anything that has a paid version to give me 100%. Similar arguments could be made for MSE I know, but at the end of the day I'm still not paying for protections.
Also MSE cannot be easily turned off as it kind of... integrates with windows. That means I won't forget to turn it back on.
Don't want to start a major debate, but do y'all have recommendations for free antivirus products that run on Windows 7-64bit??
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