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Best Top 10 Free Antivirus Antispyware 2010, 2011 Online

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About Free Antivirus

Millions of people are using internet these days and hundred of millions will be connected with internet in next decade. If with this speed people will use internet, mobile internet, gprs, data cards, etc then Online threats will also increase the same speed. Hence we need better antivirus to protect our computer from virus, trojans, spyware, worms, hackers etc. If you are just a daily user of computer then you can easily use the free antivirus software. These days competition in free antivirus field is also increasing with the rapid speed. It is really tough job to understand which antivirus will keep your system, pc, laptop safe from online threats. Whether you need to buy any full antivirus or you can use it free version. Or you want to test any trial version. Most of antivirus company are also offering trail version for 30 days or more. It depends on what exactly you want from them. And how much protection you want.

Free antivirus comes with few basic things

  • Anti-virus protection
  • Anti-spyware protection
  • Automatically updates etc

How to use free antivirus in your computer

Millions of users are using free antivirus. Why? because they don't want to spend any money on these security products. Most of them are non-technical peoples but still many people do this mistake. They use there online bank and private account passwords and surf on hundreads of websites but they don't use any secure anti-virus. If they do spend some money on any antivirus which promise good protection. They may safe lot of frustration in the end. Suppose they loose all there credit cards details. Then they may loose all money in few seconds. Still if you are not using any secret things then atleast you should use free antivirus protection. They will provide atleast minimum security and keep your pc safe from threats.

Software requirements

Most of these free antivirus and antispyware don't have lot of system requirements. But if still using them you need to check every individual requirements from websites. All of them supports windows vista, windows, xp, windows 7 etc few of them also available in 32 bit and 64 bit. like microsoft office 2010.

Top And Best Free Antivirus Softwares

1) Avg Free Antivirus Software: Avg has two options. Avg free antivirus edition and other is Avg internet security 9. We are talking about free. Avg is one of the most popular antivirus. Largest number of people downloaded till date according to the download.com stats. No other antivirus comes near to this. Abg support windows vista, xp, 7 and 2000. This antivirus provides basic protection antivirus and antispyware protection. It also has link scanner which constant scan the links while you surf on the google and yahoo or bing. This also provides the updates from avg servers.

2) Avast Free antivirus: Avast is one popular free antivirus available. It also provides basic antivirus and antispyware protection from virus trojans, worms etc. It has three product available. Avast free antivirus, avast antivirus pro, and avast internet security, Avast has some different plateform for detecting the virus. In few online research avast was able to detect many different threats as compared to other antiviruses. It also updates automatically. But this has slow scan as compared to other antivirus. For big files like movies, it take lot of time to scan. which is some times very irritating when you are desperate to watch them.

Why avast is different and promise

  • Boot time scan as compared to other antivirus program.
  • It has heuristic engine: This proactively detects malware and keep safe.
  • Wake up scan of your pc. Your pc will wake you from sleep and after scan again will go to sleep. called wake up scan from avast.
  • Avast intelligent scan: It will not scan many of files which is not changes from long time. So, this will save you lot of time. according to avast this is safe process and proven too.
  • Avast has many sheilds which will keep your system safe. like mail, p2p, web, IM, network shield etc.
  • fast application updates.
  • Gaming mode and multi threaded scanning.
  • Green computing.
  • optimized for latest I7 intel processors etc

What you will miss in avast free editions

  • Firewall
  • antispam
  • sand box and scipt protection.

3) Free avira antivirus antispyware: This is free antivirus and antispyware. I used this antivirus in last two years. I liked this antivirus for fast scanning and simple interface. It has small updates takes few minutes to update you avira database. In new avira has new feature. this is called repair file features. I hope when your file get repaired successful you will feel happy. But this is not always the case. most of the time. Your file will not be come in original form. antivir avira keep your system safe from virus, worms, spyware, trojans and dialers. Hope you will like its usage.

4) Bitdefender Free edition: Large number of people is using this antivirus. This is really powerful and popular antivirus. Recently 84% of people buy this antivirus on toptenreviews.com. they ranked this is best antivirus of 2010. whatever bitdefender is very powerful and safe. I used its free edition in home. it is not very effective as its full version but still it is better then nothing. They claims themselves as worlds best antivirus engine. why not they deserves this.

It is available in 32 bit and 64 bit.support vista and xp. can be used for home server. But you need to check the specifications for that. You can scan and remove the virus effectively from bitdefender.

Cloud Antivirus

5) Cloud Antivirus: Cloud antivirus from Panda antivirus. Another latest and free antivirus is launched with bang. This is cloud antivirus which is light weight antivirus. This is very light antivirus and don't use much resources. I tested this antivirus on windows 7 dell inspiron computer. It takes very less system resources. Also this antivirus use cloud computing. means for scanning you computer this antivirus don't need to use and download latest virus definitions from cloud antivirus server. it will take from nearest cloud antivirus user using cloud antivirus called cloud computing. They are trying to popluarize themselves as simply evolution. I think it is kind of evolution from panda antivirus.Supports windows 7, have icsa labs certified.

What panda cloud antivirus provides you for free.

  • Anti virus and anti spyware protection.
  • Anti rootkits.
  • Online and Offline protection.
  • Product supports 20 language.
  • Behavioral protection.
  • Expert mode for advance peoples.

What you will not get in panda free but in panda cloud pro edition

  • Behavioural anaysis.
  • protection from auto run in usb.
  • No adverts.
  • Online support.
  • Automatic and transparent upgrades.

6) Commondo: This is also free antivirus which comes with antispyware also.

7) ClamWin: Has many features and more then 600000 people used this product. It is very light weight as claimed.

Shareware antivirus and antispyware product with trial period

  • Nod gives you trail period. 30 days trial.
  • Kaspersky 2010, 2011 antivirus and internet security. 30 days
  • Quick heal internet security. 30 days.
  • Bull guard antivirus. 30 days
  • Guardian antivirus 2010.
  • F prot.
  • Mcafee 6 months trial version free
  • Norton free 30 days
  • Trend micro trial version.
  • PC tools.

Also large number of antivirus is available. Which is selling online. I will try to review them on my experience.

Comments

mywishes1989 19 months ago

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temp_inizer 17 months ago

Thanks... for your detail... in this mostly I have used and I thought Avast is better than others but not a single antivirus is perfect for any type of virus...

tenperizer 16 months ago

include a new antivirus on the block ::: kingsoft free cloud-based antivirus

Samuel Konger 16 months ago

There was a typo in AVG description...

Lihle Steven 15 months ago

Tell me guys, what do you say about Microsoft Security Essentials? is it any good?

grooowb 14 months ago

@Lihle Steven

nothing much be trusted coming from microsoft

Sergio 12 months ago

The best free antivirus is: COMODO Internet Security Premium

topoffree 11 months ago

Percsonaly I like panda because it is cloud but this is a great free antivirus list

Melody 7 months ago

AVG? Seriously? I have Avira it detects more viruses than AVG. Some sites that I've been to (particularly video streaming sites) that Avira has detected viruses on AVG hasn't.

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