Does anyone know where I can get permanant an anti-virus program to download for free?

http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html its free...updates are free..and it is the best Antivirus program i have ever used

i second avast. i've never had problems with it and its even found viruses that norton or mcaffree missed.

avast

Defenatly Avast. That reminds me, I no longer have an anti-virus...

Hmmm well seeing as how my subscription to Norton is running out in 13 days I'll have to dl avast since everyone here says nothing but good things about it.

I'll say this though don't get Norton, not worth what you have to pay to use it. Hell had it on the desktop and we had to have our HD whiped twice due to the viruses that damn program let thru.

Thanks!

just no, that no amount of protection can make up for ignorance, every software company out there says their programs are only second to human intelligence, and that thats the ebst way to prevent viruses

Yea, definitly avast. My computer was most screwed up today (Akira13 helped me fix it), and now I have 4 or 5 anti-virus programs, and they're working for me.

... Mmm, I bet your resources like that!

Zone alarm can be a useful little tool aswell, not an antivirus, a firewall that allows you to monitor all of your inward and outward internet trafic.

Now days it’s more Spam/Ad and trojan/Keyloggers then anything else. The viruses you get are mostly from just downloading files off p2p networks or e-mail you think are from friends. If you want a good start at protection get spybot search and destroy, Zone alarm or Smoothwall, Avast/Norton/Macafee (choose one) and last but not least hijackhis. If you have all of the above then keep it up to date as often as you can or it’s basically useless.

AVG Antivirus.

http://www.grisoft.com/ (http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1)