AVAST is definitely great.  It has protected me effectively for years.  

Another fantastic program is Spywareblaster.  It prevents malware from being installed on your PC in the first place.It doesn't use up resources by running "in the background" - it "innoculates" your system in some way at bootup.  Spybot S&D and Adaware no longer find anything on my drive.  It is free, but for daily autoupdate, it is $9.95 a YEAR!  Very reasonable and great protection.  One of the best things I ever put on my PC.       

--AnnaSummers


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Michael Frank 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Best free anti-virus and malware etc etc


I personally prefer Avast anti-virus the free version and its real time
scanning is great and does not hog all of my cpu. Spybot search and destroy
is another great program to protect you from spyware and the sort..
Great programs!!!

On Apr 4, 2009 9:14 AM, "Mick Fitzpatrick" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

Hello

Can someone please recommend some good freeware anti-virus, malware, spyware
etc software?

Thanks in advance

Mick

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