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Which is your favorite free anti-virus program?

Microsoft Security Essentials
3 (33.3%)
AVG
1 (11.1%)
AVIRA
0 (0%)
AVAST!
3 (33.3%)
Clam
1 (11.1%)
Other (please list)
1 (11.1%)

Total Members Voted: 8

Voting closed: December 30, 2010, 11:37:01 pm

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benali72

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Which is your favorite free anti-virus program?
« on: December 16, 2010, 11:37:01 pm »
Which is your favorite free anti-virus software product?  And why do you like it?
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Re: Which is your favorite free anti-virus program?
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2010, 11:42:26 pm »
I used to like AVG best, but for some reason I find now that its downloads for updates are really slow. Don't know why.

Been using AVAST! a lot lately, it has a nice simple-but-complete interface and seems to do a good job (so far as I can tell).  Also it runs under either Windows or Linux.

Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D are pretty good for the anti-spyware tools.
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Re: Which is your favorite free anti-virus program?
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2010, 11:20:30 pm »
microsort MRT
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Microsoft MRT versus MSE
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2010, 11:30:18 pm »
@Unix...

Is Microsoft MRT automatically installed?  As far I as can tell on my XP systems it was automatically installed as part of the MS Updates process.

In contrast, one has to specifically download and install Microsoft MSE.

Am I correct on these points?

Thank you.
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