Free Anti Virus Download Software suggestion

[La Mike]

Yea completely remove the old one before D-loading the new so theres not a possibility of it crashing your computer

 

[SarahBeth9394]

Yep Avast. My hubby is a geek and he's got it on all our pc's and it's what he recommends to everyone who asks.

 

[TM Chickens]

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I didn't know it was possible for Microsoft to make anything super fast or non-anoying, much less both....

Neither did I. But apparently they do...

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Gotcha. Thanks!

 

[mangled]

I'll put another vote in for Avast. We run it on all of our systems, from machines running Me to Windows 7, with no problems.

Blessings-
Em

 

[Keltara]

We use Avast on our computer and our laptop. So far so good.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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What do you mean when you say that you need the "lightest" anti-virus possible? How would that benefit a user?

 

[La Mike]

I believe they are talking about smallest app so as to not take up a bunch of space on their computer

 

[WyandotteTX]

Just bought a new computer and I have Kaspersky on it and it seems to be working really well also.
Had AVG on my other computer but it was not totally fail safe I thought. There were viruses that specifically attacked it and circumvented it.

 

[TM Chickens]

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What do you mean when you say that you need the "lightest" anti-virus possible? How would that benefit a user?

With McAfee, one laptop took over 10 minutes to boot. Once booted, it would regularly hang for minutes at a time, with McAfee using 100% cpu. Same with several other AV programs. With Security Essentials, you hardly ever notice it's there. That's what I consider to be light.