Any decent free Norton antivirus alternatives ???

[Tampon]

As per title, I read this morning in the metro that there were some good free anti virus software available but didn't clock where it was from.

Ideally would like some thing as simple as possible to use, I have spyware already but wondered if there was any recommendations for free virus software.

Cheers
Tamps

[bishbash]

There are a few, but AVG from www.grisoft.com and avast from www.avast.com are the main ones.

[Tampon]

bishbash said:

There are a few, but AVG from www.grisoft.com and avast from www.avast.com are the main ones.

Thanks for that, i have gone for the Avant one, seems to have trouble with the very old version of norton on there, tried looking in remove programs to get rid of it but it doesn;t come up, any ideas how to remove/shut off norton ?

[SpunkyMonkey]

Norton / Symantec removal tools can be found here:
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf...

[Davel]

AVG

+ 1!

[Tampon]

SpunkyMonkey said:

Norton / Symantec removal tools can be found here:
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf...

Thankyou Monkey spunk

[TheLemming]

I use AVG antivirus and AVG antispyware, my housemate uses Avast.

I've had no problems, he's had 2 issues with trojans his hasnt picked up that mine has.

The general vibe seems to be that there isnt much to call between the two of them. Both are free, both updated daily and I honestly dont see a reason to use a paid for home antivirus or anti-spyware unless you have some very special requirements.

[Roy the Boy]

TheLemming said:

.... and I honestly dont see a reason to use a paid for home antivirus or anti-spyware unless you have some very special requirements.

... or you are running server software, as the free versions will not run on a server.

[DucatiGary]

Roy the Boy said:

TheLemming said:

.... and I honestly dont see a reason to use a paid for home antivirus or anti-spyware unless you have some very special requirements.

... or you are running server software, as the free versions will not run on a server.

or you want something to work proper

the free ones are free for a reason

currently recommend bullguard to our customers after finding things avg and avast couldn't see.

another test is the bought test, dont be so nieve, they dont make the best software they can and give it away free, you'd have to be a bit of a doosh bag to believe that.

[Ordinary Bloke]

Davel said:

AVG

+ 1!

I use AVG from grisoft and I've never had any problems - thoroughly recommended.

[DucatiGary]

Roy the Boy said:

... or you are running server software, as the free versions will not run on a server.

also for the record, the bullguard normal regular no frills non server version works fine on exchange, sbs, win2008 server etc etc etc with no probs at all

i've had it here without any probs on both the exchange and win2008 server for the past 6 months

[Funk]

DucatiGary said:

Roy the Boy said:

TheLemming said:

.... and I honestly dont see a reason to use a paid for home antivirus or anti-spyware unless you have some very special requirements.

... or you are running server software, as the free versions will not run on a server.

or you want something to work proper

the free ones are free for a reason

currently recommend bullguard to our customers after finding things avg and avast couldn't see.

another test is the bought test, dont be so nieve, they dont make the best software they can and give it away free, you'd have to be a bit of a doosh bag to believe that.

Avast and AVG charge for corporate use, allowing home users to have it for free.

This makes sense as given the amount most business networks are protected, most viruses probably originate from home users. Tackling that at source will have knock-on benefits. It's widely-accepted that Norton is pretty pants, despite you having to fork out for it.