What's the best Virus detector?

[Quiet Stranger]

My computer is being SO buggy and I would like to know what you people of The Escapist use for Viruses.

I use to have a good one, the one that comes with Vista Home premium and we always paid for another subscription when it ran out and then it just decided that we didn't need it anymore and now we don't have a virus detector program, ain't that some shit?

 

[Amphoteric]

Boom

http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage

 

[Sassafrass]

AVG Anti-Virus is what I use.

Just put it into Google and it should come up with the download link. It's free as well and it updates often too.

EDIT: Ninja'd by the first comment. XD

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

AVG free. People will tell you it doesn't work... they're lying. It was the most downloaded thing on Cnet's Download.com last year, it's free, it works, I've never had a virus while using it. If you're really paranoid or a software elitest, buy MalwareBytes Full edition.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I just found out my user profile doesn't have enough...."permission" or whatever it said to even download AVG, this is fucking bull shit

 

[Pandaman1911]

My campus makes me use the most recent version of Norton, they give it to you for free. I use it in conjunction with Adaware and IOBit 360. Haven't had a virus yet.

 

[theComposer]

AVG Free is very good, but slows down your computer noticeably when it's scanning. I recently switched to Microsoft Security Essentials. It also has very good reviews, but even better is it is very non-intrusive. My computer runs no slower when it is scanning, and both scans and updates are quick and painless. It kicks AVG's ass in usability, and I haven't had a virus problem with it, so it seems to do it's job quite well.

 

[Sleekgiant]

Microsoft Security Essentials
Spybot
Malwarebytes

AVG is meh and Avast talks to you, which is annoying; also Norton and Macafee(however you spell it) are shit.

 

[tinkyyy]

To reiterate what most people have said so far, when I had a windows machine, I used AVG, and I never had a virus.
Just a really, really underpowered computer...

 

[Squilookle]

I use AVG, and the occasional AD-Aware scan, and I scan every .exe I download with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (which is fantastic), in addition to occasionally letting MAM do it's own full system scan too.

So basically those 3.

 

[Laughing Man]

Another MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) user here. Small foot print, does it's job quietly and without intruding on what you are doing which AVG was always a pain, I would have to tell it what it could and could not do, it would constantly step in and question anything that was new and it always seemed to take a lot longer to get it self up and running at boot. Never had any virus issues with either MSE or AVG but MSE wins it by doing its job but doing it in such a way that you aren't constantly being told it is doing its job oh and not a single false positive yet.

 

[[BDS]Omega]

AVG free is always good. If you have the money or desire to buy a security program, I recommend ESET or Kaspersky.

Definitely go grab malwarebytes, its free and it works very well.

Since it may not be viruses, i would also advise Ccleaner, it can also fix registry errors which has helped me in the past.