Best Free Anti-Virus Software?

[popps]

By the way, talking about security and surfing protection, is there any software out there which can be used before visiting a Web site to make sure it is ok to visit ?

Anything out there does this and works well, reliably ?

 

[AdamD]

Symantec is not a free av however.

Oops, yea, heh

Avast and Microsoft Security essentials seems to get the best ratings for freebie software.

 

[altarego]

I've got another question.

The pop up I've been getting is from Windows telling me that I have no firewall. I'd originally thought it was caused by my anti-virus program being out of date, but I've got the MSE software installed and it shows as working, yet I just got that pop up again just a little while ago. What can I do to get this to stop? It lags UO every time it pops up, and has caused me no end of grief in game. I reset it to on, which it showed as on last night after I installed the new MSE software, but this morning showed as off. So what gives and what can I do about it?

Does anyone have any idea about this?

It's possible that your old antivirus software also included a firewall that automatically disabled windows built in firewall. So when you removed it and installed MSE, it left the Windows Firewall down. You should just re-enable in the control panel. If that doesn't take, try manually updating windows at windowsupdate.com. If that doesn't fix it, try reinstalling the latest service pack for your OS flavor.

Try running a full scan of MSE to see if there is something your old antivirus software missed.

Edit: Btw...how did you remove your old antivirus program?

 

[Connor_Graham]

Edit: Btw...how did you remove your old antivirus program?

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