recently one of my not so geeky friend asked me which is free antivirus program available in the market with decent detection and protection rate against malware, spyware and all kind of viruses, and block threats while surfing/browsing and also does not consume much system resource as his system was 5 years old? i was like wait a minute! aint he asking qualities of antivirus which are available only in paid version :) ?
I was using kaspersky from last 4 years and the license expired 3 months ago since then my computer is bare without any AV, so i thought to look for a free alternative this time because most of the time i will be careful on the sites i open and my requirements was just a basic protection similar to any average joe.
So after a lots of research i found three free antivirus "AVG FREE", "AVIRA", "AVAST" to be heavily discussed and debated on many forums , weblogs and websites as the best free alternative AV, though above promises protection to some extent but each one has its pros and cons, but i used all these before for few weeks and i know they have big foot print in terms of consumption of CPU resource.
So whats the best alternative? Microsoft released a free anti virus called "Microsoft Security Essentials" in late 2009 but unfortunately many don't know about it, its very light and does not cripple PC performance and can give a decent protection against viruses, spyware and malwares.
It has the easy to use unbloated interface without unnecessary features and settings, its like install and forget type application, but beware you have to pass WGA to get it installed and i know you guys know what to do for it :), and it automatically updates itself without any niggles and has less foot print takes around 40MB and very lite even compared to my previous AV (KASPERS SKY) which was a bit heavy and consuming fair amount of time at bootup, MS SECURITY ESSENTIALS IS best suited for less tech savy professionals and average joe who requires basic protection.
Whats more its free, it doesn't have any PRO or PAID versions and no need to worry about License and upgrades you can download it here .
I am using it from about a week before writing this post i did not find any lag in the system, infact the system performance is so good and browsing speed is so great i feel that there is no ANTI VIRUS in my computer, in last one week it blocked one virus and quarantined it, so far great i am still testing it, if you guys have tested MS SE before Commenting and sharing your experience will do good.
I was using kaspersky from last 4 years and the license expired 3 months ago since then my computer is bare without any AV, so i thought to look for a free alternative this time because most of the time i will be careful on the sites i open and my requirements was just a basic protection similar to any average joe.
So after a lots of research i found three free antivirus "AVG FREE", "AVIRA", "AVAST" to be heavily discussed and debated on many forums , weblogs and websites as the best free alternative AV, though above promises protection to some extent but each one has its pros and cons, but i used all these before for few weeks and i know they have big foot print in terms of consumption of CPU resource.
Microsoft Security Essentials
So whats the best alternative? Microsoft released a free anti virus called "Microsoft Security Essentials" in late 2009 but unfortunately many don't know about it, its very light and does not cripple PC performance and can give a decent protection against viruses, spyware and malwares.
It has the easy to use unbloated interface without unnecessary features and settings, its like install and forget type application, but beware you have to pass WGA to get it installed and i know you guys know what to do for it :), and it automatically updates itself without any niggles and has less foot print takes around 40MB and very lite even compared to my previous AV (KASPERS SKY) which was a bit heavy and consuming fair amount of time at bootup, MS SECURITY ESSENTIALS IS best suited for less tech savy professionals and average joe who requires basic protection.
Whats more its free, it doesn't have any PRO or PAID versions and no need to worry about License and upgrades you can download it here .
I am using it from about a week before writing this post i did not find any lag in the system, infact the system performance is so good and browsing speed is so great i feel that there is no ANTI VIRUS in my computer, in last one week it blocked one virus and quarantined it, so far great i am still testing it, if you guys have tested MS SE before Commenting and sharing your experience will do good.
3 comments:
Very nice flow.Good article
Wooow, This App is very much takes cares of all the AV needs thanks for sharing!
Its applicable for all win version?
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