im a free software guy and i just want to know you guys' opinion on this three free antivirus softwares, and tell which one u thinkn is better !

1. AVG Free Edition
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/40/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

2. avast! 4 Home edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

3. antivir
http://www.free-av.com/

I used to have #3 but it was kinda frustrating updating manually. so i just changed to #2 avast and its going prtty good sofar so tell me wat u gusy think

well i've heard AVG (1) is good for free

In my opinion AVG is the best. It doesn't slow down the computer.

Defiantly AVG and it runs in the background. IT also comes up a pop up when you download something which has a virus !
Plus you can set it to when it runs automtically which is useful . I put it on when im at schoool

avg for me

wow i never thought that many people would use free software thanks gusy ill go for AVG

AVG also causes lots of problems, can't be bothered now to look for threads. It certainly isn't the only AV running in the background, i used antivir and it does that too. No automatic updates tho, unless you set it in the scheduler to do so. I read the page of Avast aswell (can run in the background too) and to me this seems like the best option.

Edit: I just switched to Avast, as it has more (advanced)options than antivir..works fine!

I used to use Avast before I got Norton. It worked well and automatically updated. It ran in the background so half the time I didn't know it was there.

Had some dodgy skins though which made it look more like a music player than a av software

I used Avast! Don't found anything wrong with it yet!

I've used AVG for ages now and it's been great. Regularly upadated, sorted out all viruses problems i've encountered, that's all i want really, and it's been fine for me.

Then again, i haven't tried any other anit virus programs, so i couldn't compare, but AVG is definitely worth looking in to.

i use avast on a bunch of computers. it works great but the talking alerts scare the shit out of my grandma . (Can be turned off)

I used to use antivir but I know use avast 4 because it has firewall protection...yes the alerts are bothering but jsut turn them on...this antivirus has an option to turn it on, on next reboot...it starts before windows therfore being able to protect your pc better form viruses that start with windows

I use McAfee Corporate. I get it for free through my uni, and nothing gets by it. Updates by itself every few hours, and will block anything that you tell it to. Viruses, prankware, some adware, irc ports, FTP ports, port 80 downloads(wtf?)