OT: anyone know any decent "light" free anti-virus software

[brunswick]

just for a home laptop with the occasional browse.

i don't want anything heavy like mcafee or synaptec etc.


thanks alot

 

[Norman Potting]

I used the free version of AVG a while ago and it seemed to do the trick.

 

[Spiros]

I'd suggest AVG free as it seems pretty good and is free. Earlier versions seemed to slow things down a bit but the current one doesn't seem to.

 

[El Presidente]

AVG Free!

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Another vote for AVG free. As Spiros said some versions definitely slowed down my PC but the latest version I installed 2 days ago seems to be much better.

 

[Cian]

Microsoft Security Essentials is, perversely, fairly decent if you've got XP, Vista or 7.

AVG Free is the best of a fairly bad bunch of free commercial antivirus programmes.

 

[Fef]

Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, easy to install & to use; its unobtrusive and it's good. I stopped wasting money on the bloated Norton & McAfee type solutions some while ago.

 

[Bozza]

Mac OS X

 

[tinx]

Yeah I've just moved over to Microsoft security essentials from AVG as it is less obtrusive and uses less resources.

 

[Arthur]

Mac OS X

 

[bhaexpress]

Microsoft Security Essentials is, perversely, fairly decent if you've got XP, Vista or 7.

AVG Free is the best of a fairly bad bunch of free commercial antivirus programmes.

Totally agree, I've seen the full version of AVG fail far too often let alone the free version, I use MSE on my laptop and have had no problems and neither have any of the machines I've removed AVG from.

 

[brighton_girl87]

I use Avast which seems to work well.

 

[Superphil]

For my Mac, I use Sophos, for PC I use both Microsoft Security Essentials and Avast (on separate PCs), all are free and 'light' and work fine.

 

[haardman]

Microsoft Security Essentials definitely. I've used it to clean machines that have been infected even with a full version of Norton or McAfee supposedly protecting it.
Highly recommended, and can now be used in Small Businesses up to 10 PC's I think.

 

[Fungus]

One vote each for Avast and AVG. With ZoneAlarm firewall.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sorry, I use Apple so no.... I do not.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Mac OS X

I got a Mac 6 months ago and will never look back.

 

[Tomnorthi]

Mac OS X

This.