Good Free Antivirus Solutions

**evilfantasy** · #1 19th May 2008, 11:07

Since there are complaints about both AVG and Avast I decided to track down some other reliable free AV's and list them here.

Remember to Only Run ONE AV!

Avast! Home Edition- Win All
AVG Free Edition- Win 2K/03/XP/Vista
AntiVir Personal Edition - for Win 2K/XP/ Vista 32bit and 64 bit
Comodo AntiVirus - for Windows XP (SP2) / Windows 2000 (SP4 or later)
PC Tools AntiVirus Free Edition - forWin 2K/03/XP/Vista

**Glaswegian** · #2 19th May 2008, 11:33

Good list.

I've just updated to AVG 8 free - no problems...

**evilfantasy** · #3 19th May 2008, 11:46

The AVG update gave me fits. Wouldn't install. So we are now wildly split around here between recommending either AVG and Avast.

As long as they both keep protecting then thats what matters.

**Mike0001** · #4 19th May 2008, 11:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by evilfantasy

The AVG update gave me fits. Wouldn't install. So we are now wildly split around here between recommending either AVG and Avast.

As long as they both keep protecting then thats what matters.

Yes, if you have Spybot and/or Zonealarm installed you have to stop both to install AVG. Oh, and uninstall any old version of AVG first.

Let's not open that can of worms again though!

**philthomas** · #5 19th May 2008, 12:12

I must be the only one round here that never had problems installing AVG 8 and I am running Vista Ultimate .... that has to be a first for Vista

Having said that, I didn't have Spybot or Zone Alarm installed, but it's running happily with SuperAntiSpyware and SpywareBlaster.

**Hybr!d** · #6 19th May 2008, 12:20

I have spybot and both that and AVG 8 are happy together.

I'm pretty sure it's because i put spybot on after AVG, if it was the other way around then I probably would have got the same 'remove it first' message from AVG.

**Mike0001** · #7 19th May 2008, 12:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave Hybrid

I have spybot and both that and AVG 8 are happy together.

I'm pretty sure it's because i put spybot on after AVG, if it was the other way around then I probably would have got the same 'remove it first' message from AVG.

Hell, Dave, I didn't get any message. AVG went through the motions of installing but wasn't installed. Really odd! If you tried to run it manually it just said it wasn't configured correctly.

**Hybr!d** · #8 19th May 2008, 12:36

Oh, that's pretty crap, I just assumed the people with the spybot issue got a message.

**philthomas** · #9 19th May 2008, 12:39

I'll test your theory Dave and add Spybot now, the same as you did ..... I'll post back with results.

**philthomas** · #10 19th May 2008, 13:24

Yep ...... Spybot working fine for me too,
so that's all of the following playing nicely with each other :

AVG8
SpywareBlaster
SuperAntiSpyware
SpyBot

Installed in that order on Vista