Free vs Paid Anti-Virus

[Violator]

Put avg on the laptop a couple days ago froze the computer and wouldn't boot up.Had to go into safe mode and uninstall it.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Flames89

Wanted to revive this. So it seems my Panda has expired and I can't seem to renew a free version. What are people using now?

Avast! is what I use.

Gamer mode helps to turnoff the pop-up thing it does.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Violator

Put avg on the laptop a couple days ago froze the computer and wouldn't boot up.Had to go into safe mode and uninstall it.

The paid version of AVG only causes your computer to slow to a crawl.

[TSXCman]

Microsoft Security Essentials wins out completely for me. It's simple and works.

[Vulcan]

Free versions of Bitdefender and Bitdefender anti-ransomware. They sit in the background and don't cause any problems, automatically update and do their scans. Installed in all my computers and my Nexus 7.

[CroFlames]

I'm using Avast coupled with Malwarebytes and Superantispyware Free edition.

Avast is automatic, but with the free versions of malwarebytes and Super Antispyware you need to manually do scans which is NBD for me personally.

[Flames89]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

Free versions of Bitdefender and Bitdefender anti-ransomware. They sit in the background and don't cause any problems, automatically update and do their scans. Installed in all my computers and my Nexus 7.

Going to give this a go now. Thanks.