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What are some excellent trusted and FREE Anti-Malware programs?
Links are greatly appreciated because there are many fake websites that look real.
Only people who provide a link to a safe and free Anti Malware program will get the 10 points.
Thanks.
9 Answers
- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
BitDefender is the best antivirus on the market - no questions asked (Kaspersky is also extremely shortly behind as well). There is also a free version available along with premium suites.
Bitdefender has the best detection rates as well, despite what other companies tell you.
Furthermore, I've dealt with numerous PCs suffering from malware problems. Funnily enough, they all pretty much have avast! and Malwarebytes. While they are not bad products at all, they're definitely not all that good for users which surf the internet a lot and download loads of stuff (mediocre detection rates, high number of false-positives, weak repair skills, and although avast! is low on resource usage, Malwarebytes is very heavy on resources).
- Anonymous7 years ago
I have a List of my Security Protection, I have them all installed on my Laptop,
Malwarebytes and PC Cleaner Pro have Serial Key,
Norton have a 180 days Trial Reset, Instruction on how to Reset is in the folder.
PC Booster, I'm not sure if it's a Freeware or Registed, I download it recently but I haven't really use it yet,
I have server depression and I can't keep up with all of my Software, It's all clean though,
I uploaded them to DropBox and only share them with those who need them.
Source(s): Norton http://tinyurl.com/k65ezsf Malwarebytes http://tinyurl.com/qx8bcxh PC Booster http://tinyurl.com/q3rr7tj PC Cleaner Pro http://tinyurl.com/n3xpvz6 - 13AcrossLv 77 years ago
I've reviewed the earlier answers to your question, and you can trust them.
I use AVG (paid) as my main AV software; some of my contacts prefer Avast; I don't know if there's much to choose between them. I STRONGLY recommend that you install a paid AV program as primary protection. I run Mbam (free version) occasionally, mainly to pick up PUPs.
If I'm investigating a dodgy-looking link (I do that a lot, I hunt spam), I take these steps:
(1) Fire up my sandbox, as a quarantine zone. I recommend Sandboxie http://sandboxie.com/
(2) If it's a shortened link, expand it. I recommend this utility http://www.toolsvoid.com/unshorten-url
(3) Run the link (unshortened if necessary) through VirusTotal https://www.virustotal.com/en/
(4) Run the link (unshortened if necessary) through ScanURL http://scanurl.net/
I'll only open the link if VirusTotal and ScanURL both show up clean, and even then only in a sandbox. Check the WOT report which ScanURL provides, it's based on reports by actual people.
If you're using a browser in the Firefox family, I recommend the Ghostery and MyWOT add-ons. Ghostery stops things like adf.ly and clickbank stone dead. MyWOT warns you if you try to open a page with a bad WOT report.
All my recommendations have the plus-points that (1) they're honest and (2) they're free (though some have paid options, like AVG and Avast). BTW, don't bother with AVG's crappy paid-for tune-up utility.
Also, avoid McAfee like the plague, it's a resource hog. It tries to piggyback into your machine on Adobe upgrades. Use Piriform CCleaner (another free utility) to get rid of it and other unwanted rubbish http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
- tumbleweed_biffLv 77 years ago
Top free AV products
BitDefender Free, ZoneAlarm Free, Adaware Free, Quiho 360 Internet, Commodo Free, Avast, Avira, AVG
Anti-spyware, anti-adware: Spybot Search & Destroy, Adaware anti-spy, SuperAntiSpyware, AdwCleaner.
Links? I'll let you use your search engine.
- 7 years ago
There are some good one, but there are ones that SAY that they are anti-maleware, but aren't. Here are some links.
Norton 360 FREE Trail: http://us.norton.com/downloads-trial-norton-360
AVG: http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
Microsoft Security: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/securit...
AVAST: http://www.avast.com/en-us/index
Avira: http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
Make sure that you don't download a virus Anti-Malware.
- 7 years ago
well, if you have a PC a good program is zone alarm (make sure to select the totally free version, not the "free" trial, which will stop functioning in 30 days.
(I did some checking... did not find a totally free version... maybe they did away with it. check yourself, they had a great product.)
another one for PC is Spybot. Absolutely the best program, and it works in unison with a firewall and a mainstream anti-virus.
http://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors16/
If you have a mac, then "Avast!"
- 7 years ago
The best free antimalware prgrams are Malwarebytes and Superantispyware. Run both on a daily basis.