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Are free antivirus programs trustful?

I have seen few antivirus programs on the web that claim to be free like avg antivirus to mention one, so my doubt is do those antivirus really protect my system?

Hope anyone my solve my doubt

Best regards, sisiliano

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linuxo

Hi,

Not all of them i agree with DMTechGrooup..

be careful take a look to this to know about Anti virus power ans reliability

http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

thanks

phototropic

The best reccommendation is from people who have used free av software and say that it works.
I have used AVG

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/

and Avast

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

and both do a good job of protecting your pc for no cost.

michko

There are plenty of free programs that are safe and efficient.
Here is exactly what I have on my home systems:
ZoneAlarm firewall. (free)
AVG Free Edition (http://free.grisoft.com/) is a good antivirus.
Spybot (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/) does a good job on spyware.
Adaware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php) is good on adware.
Spybot and Adaware work well together, if one misses something the other will pick it up.

SuperAntiSpyware (www.superantispyware.com) is another good free ad/spyware solution.
Avast has a good free antivirus (www.avast.com).

A good free on-line virus scanner:
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

FDomingos88

Yes they are, the only thing that they haven't, compared to paid AV'S is less features.
But the engine is the same.

Mohammed Hamada

Try bit defender, Now its rated as top software in
http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en--BitDefender-8-Free-Edition.html