Best free virus scan?

[hdawg06]

A friend asked me earlier, what is the best "free" virus scan. He believes he has a few virus' on his laptop, and wants to get rid of them. I had no clue, but figured some of you might. If it is a free trial, I would rather not do it, just something that is fairly good and free would be preferred.

 

[exit2dos]

I prefer AVG.
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-anti-virus-free-edition/lng/us/tpl/tpl01

Does he have a spyware scanner? If not try:
Ad-Aware and/or Windows Defender.

 

[Zoron]

I find that AVG's Antispyware (formerly Ewido Antispyware) is also quite good... better than Ad-Aware, I think.

 

[hdawg06]

He has Ad-aware and Spybot: Search and Destroy.

 

[Rob423]

Yea the best thing about these programs are i find the more the better.

I always have

Firefox
Zone Alarm PRO tweaked to best capacity.
Ad-Aware
Pest Partrol.. which i find to be excellent.
AVG anti-Virus..


I got just these guys running and i just know where im going and be smart about things and i never get any popups, ads, etc..

My system runs superb.

 

[Zoron]

Ad-Aware and Spybot just don't seem to cut it for me anymore... I used to swear by them, but now they don't seem to be as effective as they once were. I now prefer AVG Antispyware and Windows Defender... they just plain get rid of more problems than the other two.

 

[Rob423]

Yea i seen in the other post you mentioned this Windows Defender..

im not to keen on running anything microsoft that i don't have to..

I even stoped using Outlook Express... i switched over to Thunderbird.

 

[number13]

NOD32 is rated one of the best in the world( maybe the best) small footprint and comes fully functional for a 30 day trail period, Adaware and Spybot used to be OK, but I haven't used them for a year or more now, Super AntiSpyware is free and very good too, and I even use Opera and IE