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What are the best free anti virus and anti spyware programs available for download? Avast Antivirus

Comparing Freeware Antivirus Titans: Avira, Avast & AVG

December 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments


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Here I compare the 3 major free Antiviruses all inside a virtual
machine (same hardware, files, disk)

I added 24 seconds to Avast Virus scan stopwatch because I started the scan and forgot to start the stopwatch and started when i paused the video. Also (thanks for the info robferro) I scanned on medium sensitivity. Total time was 3mins20 for Avast.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

http://www.download.com/3001-2239_4-10788045.html?spi=0bc55e828a

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- 2nd Most downloaded software at download.com
- 6th Best Detection Rate
- Total of 56,624k RAM when scanning
- Software Scanned 11111 objects, and took 6 mins 28 secs
- Total of 4,344k RAM when idle
- Request for Registration (but not necessary)

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic

http://www.download.com/3001-2239_4-10745467.html?spi=48ccabbb0b

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- 15th Most downloaded software at Download.com
- 2nd Best Detection Rate
- Total of 54,780k RAM when scanning
- Software Scanned 35484 objects, and took 4 mins 28 secs
- Total of 8,004k RAM when idle
- Pop-up when Updates

Avast! Home Edition

http://www.download.com/3001-2239_4-10806606.html?spi=15b6002ed0

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- 5th Most downloaded software at Download.com
- 11th best detection rate
- Total of 74,671k RAM when scanning (including avast.setup)
- Software Scanned 12022 objects, and took 3 mins 20 because I

didnt start the stopwatch when scan started (I realised when I

paused)
- Total of 32,870k RAM when idle
- 60 Day registration, Spinning icon, hard to use software

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5 responses so far ↓

  • 1 FreewareReviewer // Jan 6, 2009 at 11:38 am

    True, but AVG does not even clean rootkits, and can’t do bootscans

  • 2 StephenTimms // Jan 24, 2009 at 10:56 pm

    can you make a new video with avg8, because I am having huge problems with the resident shield function which is taking up 50000K memory usage all the time

  • 3 Spartan4521 // Jan 30, 2009 at 12:55 am

    hes just makin a test vid :P

  • 4 blackstefan // Feb 1, 2009 at 7:30 am

    Avast or avg free plz answer ^^.

  • 5 HoTnSpiCy009 // Feb 1, 2009 at 8:12 am

    I’ll stay with avira, and I highly recommend people to use it.