# Free public Antivirus

# WEBSITE LINK
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php


# INFO
- Free version & Commercial version available
- Regular free updates (manual)
- A very good anti-malware (cleans your PC by removing crap such as viruses, spyware, etc.)


# NOTICE
This is not an active antivirus (such as Norton, Mc Afee, Kapersky, BitDefender etc.), so it will not clean and protect you from active virus attacks. But you can run manual scans with it, and it will remove that stuff.

This is recommended as a passive, secondary anti-virus. You NEED an active antivirus too! And those are not free.



PS: I am a computer genius. If you ever need help make a thread in this forum section with your thread title starting with:
[MILY HELP] And ur thread title here, here is an example:
[MILY HELP] MSN keeps crashing!



Anyways I hope my thread comes in handy for some of you

Regards,
~ Alex
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# Single and looking for a date
# I am 18 years old male
# I live in North London!
# I live around Hampstead Heath

AVG v8 is free and has almost daily updates. Search for AVGFREE or you will get the page of the version you have to pay for. I use it exclusively as it does not interfere with programs running the way Norton or McAfee does. AVG will scan any file that downloads and quarantine it if it contains a virus, you don't even get a chance to open it.
http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

Spybot is also free which has Teatimer to help prevent malware getting onto your system to start with. This enables you to innoculate your browser against most forms of spyware and malware. http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

Both run background keeping your system protected. I use them both all the time and have never had a problem with viruses or spyware/malware.

I am also using AVG on my computer and laptop never had any problems with it. Have used other programs in the past which I found good at the beginning but after a couple of months it wasn't doing what it said on the tin. (And these were software's that I paid for). Since downloadin free AVG I have had no problems, i also have zone alarm installed which i find very good, (just my opinion).

I use 'avast' antivirus..best one I've found so far, and I've used most of them over the years.

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html


Also scan with 'SUPERAntiSpyware' Free, which is very good:

http://www.superantispyware.com/superantispywarefreevspro.html


Also 'a-squared Free'..which is also good:

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

The free versions are for home user only.

With modern anti viruses no amount of security software is going to stop a machine getting infected if the user is silly about what they download. In the case of the school computers there is some serious serious lack of security AND I don't mean AV software.

I am a computer technican and if viruses were as easy as running AVG or Malwarebytes to remove I would not have a job.

At the same time, running nothing is still worse because it leaves the door open for anything to infect your PC. I am also a PC engineer and know there will never be a 100% protection but even 90% is far better than nothing.

Norton and McAfee may be good but they are resource hogs that slow down your PC and cost money. The free ones can sometimes be just as good but much less resource hungry. In fact, I find AVG can outperform Norton in most cases but is almost invisible as far as use of resources and processor ticks go.

I have AVG and I have had it for ponly 3 years on my old computer wich is a 2cd hand and now on my new one and it is only 5 day's old and the only thing my stepfather used on his computer and so he has put it on dboth of mine and they are the free versions.
But I have never downloaded music or anything unless it was by using a disc cd into my computer player.
I won't.
But I have a cookbook in here I am working on and so am trying to be quite careful as to where I go so as to not loose any or everything.
Eventhough all the recipes are saved on anothere computer.

I think AVG is a decent virusscanner, but if you wan't the best protection take NOD32 for example. That cost you some money, but you get better protection. Malwarebytes, spybot and CCleaner are good malware- and spywarescanners.