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Fista Virus Checker
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:15
by Grimmie
Something for the parents PC please.
Unobtrusive and will just sit in the background with minimal touching required. Preferably free.
Ta.
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:20
by Dr. kitteny berk
nod32 trial, then buy it.
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:29
by Fear
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
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:32
by cheeseandham
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:37
by Stoat
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.
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 18:38
by Dr. kitteny berk
What I said, but add a few more years and hilarious, public failures of AVG
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 20:56
by deject
The new Norton security package is supposedly completely brand new from the ground up and it's supposed to be not not crap.
Posted: January 18th, 2009, 11:29
by No1Jew
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.
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 3:32
by tehspork
I also uses avast.
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 4:06
by FatherJack
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.
Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 13:17
by nunoncastors
I've been using
COMDO recently, seems to be pretty good as these things go.
Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 15:29
by Baliame
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.
Re: Fista Virus Checker
Posted: February 4th, 2009, 14:12
by Dave Trouser
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.