Good free spyware/virus protector?

Anyone know some good places to download such software?

Thanks!

 

A lot of people swear by Adaware, but I have yet to find anything that really works, including Adaware.
If somebody is determined to fuck up your computer, they're going to find a way to do it.

 

AVG is the best for free ware. Go to www.grisoft.com and follow the links.

 

AVG for virus.

Spybot is pretty good for spyware.

 

Pony up the money and buy McAfee. Norton sucks.

 

So does McAfee.

Go with Trend.

 

In this month's The Atlantic, James Fallows recommends the previously mentioned AVG and also Avast.

 

I've used Norton for several years, and haven't had much of a problem. Is there a particular reason why it sucks?

 

I tried Avast once upon a time, and found it to be as big a resource hog as McAfee.

AVG is better than all of those. Runs nearly invisibly. And it's free. Fully supported, and free.

W, I'm sorry but McAfee is horrid.

 

For anti-virus/firewall I use Norton Internet Security, despite the fact that it's a system hog.

For anti-spyware I was Ad-Aware (free version) and Spybot

 

And AVG catches everything, if not more than Norton/McAfee does.

 

AVG, it seems, hogs up more resources than McAfee and about the same as Norton (which ain't saying much).

What's this Trend deal, birdscribe?