Hi Gem here is one other favorite of me that i use on a daily basis.
Free top quality full featured antivirus program that i can advice to everybody:
avast! 4 Home Edition
Free for home users and non-commercial use.
You need to register to recieve a 12/14 months free licence registration key by e-mail, when that period has passed you have to reregister to recieve a new 12/14 months key. No spam or ads garanteed !!! top program i use it for years and it always served me well.
Features:
- Automatic updates (very regular almost updated on a daily basis, incremental updates)
- Antivirus kernel
- Resident real time protection
- E-mail SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
- System integration
- Web, Network, P2P* and Instant Messaging Shields
- Support for 64-bit Windows
* I disabled the P2P Shield because i had some difficulty with it using my P2P programs.
Platforms:
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Me
- Windows NT 4 (No Server)
- Windows 2000 (No Server)
- Windows XP (No Server)
- Windows Vista
Available in the following language versions:
- English version (length 17.64 MB)
- Arabic version (length 17.44 MB)
- Bulgarian version (length 17.48 MB)
- Catalan version (length 17.74 MB)
- Chinese (Simplified) version (length 17.29 MB)
- Chinese (Traditional) version (length 17.29 MB)
- Croatian version (length 17.45 MB)
- Czech version (length 17.49 MB)
- Danish version (length 17.47 MB)
- Dutch version (length 17.46 MB)
- Finnish version (length 17.46 MB)
- French version (length 17.76 MB)
- German version (length 17.46 MB)
- Greek version (length 17.47 MB)
- Hungarian version (length 17.49 MB)
- Italian version (length 17.47 MB)
- Japanese version (length 17.49 MB)
- Korean version (length 17.45 MB)
- Macedonian version (length 17.45 MB)
- Malay version (length 17.45 MB)
- Norwegian version (length 17.45 MB)
- Polish version (length 17.75 MB)
- Portuguese (Brazil) version (length 17.48 MB)
- Portuguese (Portugal) version (length 17.48 MB)
- Romanian version (length 17.47 MB)
- Russian version (length 17.67 MB)
- Serbian version (length 17.72 MB)
- Slovak version (length 17.49 MB)
- Slovenian version (length 17.45 MB)
- Spanish version (length 17.69 MB)
- Swedish version (length 17.45 MB)
- Turkish version (length 17.46 MB)
downloadpage: (with links to the free registration page)
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Give i a try when you want a good free anti-virus program thats not to heavy on the systems resources.
ps: they also have a very usefull and good free standalone tool:
avast! Virus Cleaner for restoring infected systems.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cleaner.html