The 5 Best Free Antivirus Software!!!

Antivirus programs provide a necessary protection from a large number of virus, trojan, spyware, adware, dialer, keylogger and rootkit infections. In the past antivirus programs just detected viruses and anti spyware programs just detected spyware but today the boundary between antivirus and spyware removers is unclear.

Antivirus softwares nowadays have at least pretty good detection rates of all forms of malware.

Malware means viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware, dialers, keyloggers and rootkit threats that make malicious activities on your computer. With the enormous increase in malware, antivirus software cannot sustain with detecting all of it. But using more than one real-time antivirus can cause conflicts and even reduce protection. It is advised you only use one antivirus for real-time protection. additionally, you can improve your protection with other security program.

I chose the best free antivirus programs which are essential in protecting your computer from virus threats and other types of malware.

Avast!

Avast! provides good, all-around protection. Avast has steadily been improving its detection rates over the last few years and now is one of the best. Avast! can be installed easily, smooth interface and minimal affect in system performance and easy to use. Avast! has the most features of all the free antivirus with full real-time capabilities including web, e-mail, IM, P2P and network shields, boot-time scanning, and a behavioral blocker. The new version Avast! 6 have even more features including an internet site ratings plug in, script malware protection and a limited sandboxing feature. Though the sandbox is a very helpful semi-automated security element, the default settings requires a pop up to ask whether a software should be sandboxed or not. This is useful nut for the typical ordinary user this can be slightly confusing although it can set to sandbox the software automatically. Lastly Avast is relatively light on resources.

Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials is really good antivirus, Microsoft Security Essentials is my favorite with good detection rates, especially for rootkits. Microsoft Security Essentials is well designed and easy to use. Installation is very simple, ideal for average users because it automatically updates and remove threats. When installation is done you launch the application. You'll see the main screen. This screen has 4 tabs: Home, Update, History and Settings.

Microsoft Security Essentials can run on older computer without crippling their performance, but good enough to detect most viruses and malware. Microsoft Security Essentials is completely free, no registration is needed, but It requires a genuine copy of Windows to install.

Microsoft Security Essentials scans really slow it takes lot of time to quarantine malware, but on the other hand once your computer is on you computer it will do a good job.

Panda Cloud

Panda Cloud Antivirus a long with Microsoft Security Essentials is an superb option for average users with a clean interface and totally automated characteristics with automatic updating and deletion of malware. Installation and setup is simple: you have to click through one screen before it starts installing. As the name suggests, Panda Cloud Antivirus keeps virus definitions online. Therefore you can use Panda Cloud Antivirus when you are online

The detection level is usually very high, but according to the newest test data, detection of zero day threats is somewhat lower. Panda updates their blacklist all users of Panda Cloud Antivirus with an internet connection are saved from it.

Panda Cloud Antivirus uses a behavioral blocker and web protection, which will surely increase your security. However as you can easily use one of the other free AV's with a detached behavioral blocker to reach perhaps even better protection, this is not necessarily a benefit.
And although its affect on overall computer performance was reasonably limited relative to other free antivirus softwares, Panda Cloud Antivirus importantly slowed startup and shutdown times.

Avira AntiVir

Avira is another high quality free antivirus, and formerly the Top Pick. AntiVir is still a great antivirus software with prominent detection rates of malware, superior than almost every other antivirus according to tests. AntiVir is still a good option for a free antivirus scanner, particularly for high risk users.

Nevertheless, there are some small reservations. First, AntiVir does not contain web or e-mail scanning capabilities, this is only offered in the paid version. The lack of an e-mail scanner is not a disadvantage, it just means that AntiVir won't alert you of infected emails before you open them. But should you open an infected email, AntiVir will still jump into action, so it doesn't mean that you're not saved from email-based infections. AntiVir contains a pretty pushy advertisement every time it updates. Though AntiVir had signature updating problems in the past, this problem seems to be fixed now.

AVG Anti-Virus

AVG is also a correct choice for a free antivirus.
AVG offers complete malware protection. And while AVG Free does always remind you that you could pay for the professional version of the program, it does this without ever getting in the way of the program’s main task: protecting you from malware.

Although this honored antivirus has had some shaky results in detection in the latest past, it now offers a high quantity of protection. This is possibly due to the inclusion of a fully-fledged behavioral blocker that is the "Identity Protection" protection. This allows a very important additional layer of protection, on the other hand still a similar protection level can be reached by using one of the free antivirus above alongside a separate behavioral blocker. Unluckily AVG free has grown considerably in size, has very slow search speeds and also advertisements, but they can be disabled.

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