Fista Virus Checker

Post by **Grimmie** » January 17th, 2009, 18:15

Something for the parents PC please.
Unobtrusive and will just sit in the background with minimal touching required. Preferably free.

Ta.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 17th, 2009, 18:20

nod32 trial, then buy it.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » January 17th, 2009, 18:29

AVG is still king of the free Windows virus checkers.

You can download the latest version here:
http://www.avg.com/filedir/inst/avg_fre ... 6a1400.exe

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » January 17th, 2009, 18:32

Deja vu fun to be had here also - http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=122270

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » January 17th, 2009, 18:37

Avast is my usual recommendation for freeware Antivirus. I'm trying out Clamwin at the moment though because I can stick it on a USB drive.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 17th, 2009, 18:38

cheeseandham wrote:Deja vu fun to be had here also - http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=122270

What I said, but add a few more years and hilarious, public failures of AVG

Post by **deject** » January 17th, 2009, 20:56

The new Norton security package is supposedly completely brand new from the ground up and it's supposed to be not not crap.

No1Jew · Post by **No1Jew** » January 18th, 2009, 11:29

NOD32 It's Free to Download, update and there is an endless amount of PW's and Keys availabe. I've had it for months, not a single problem.

tehspork · Post by **tehspork** » January 20th, 2009, 3:32

I also uses avast.

Post by **FatherJack** » January 20th, 2009, 4:06

Avast chokes with large numbers of TCP connections (ie: news leeching) but it's good for casual use. You might have to manually re-activate yearly though, even though it's free.

nunoncastors · Post by **nunoncastors** » January 23rd, 2009, 13:17

I've been using COMDO recently, seems to be pretty good as these things go.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 23rd, 2009, 15:29

FatherJack wrote:Avast chokes with large numbers of TCP connections (ie: news leeching) but it's good for casual use. You might have to manually re-activate yearly though, even though it's free.

Mine keeps bringing up this dialog that I have 1 day left till reactivation. I've been getting that for fucking 6 months.

Dave Trouser · Post by **Dave Trouser** » February 4th, 2009, 14:12

Grimmie wrote:Something for the parents PC please.
Unobtrusive and will just sit in the background with minimal touching required. Preferably free.

Ta.

Few people seem to know about Comodo. www.comodo.com

Their antivirus is now combined with the firewall, but you can disable that if needed, along with "defense +" which is a data exectution prevention tool.

With those elements disabled, there are no popups - even during updates. Only a virus will trigger a message. Uses minimal resources too. I find it good enough to leave active during gaming too.

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