what do you guys suggest as the best free anti-virus program on vista? i've been using Avast for quite some time now...it's great at detecting viruses, but so horrible at actually getting rid of them. any suggestions?
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Yep I'll add my vote to both of those. I have installed Free AVG AV and Spyware program on about 6 or 7 Vista and XP machine for family and they are all happy with it.
Adding another vote for NOD32. I use it myself, both on a Mac with a Boot Camp partition and a real Windows machine.
I use AVG and Windows Defender on my PC. AVG is awesome, and I've never had a problem with Defender.
Hmm.... I'd have to go with Avast, mainly because the download for AVG Free always freezes on me, (possibly because it's so dang popular???), and so I had to use Avast. OK, now that that's over with, can anyone suggest ME a free anti-virus software that won't lag me while gaming??? I mean, with Avast, I turn off the on-access protection while gaming, because it lags me, BUT, are there any that DON'T lag while gaming, so I wouldn't have to turn off on-access protection??? Thanks.
Maybe I'm nit-picking here but I never like AVG as much as Avast! mainly because of looks. Yes, I know, superficial, but we're Mac users. We base a lot of stuff on looks. Don't get me wrong, both are awesome programs, but Avast! I think looks better UI wise.