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Help...recommendations...
Can anyone please recommend a good free antivirus protection? I need it for my son's laptop..he has a Gateway laptop with windows 7?
Thanks in advance for any info you may have :)
Can anyone please recommend a good free antivirus protection? I need it for my son's laptop..he has a Gateway laptop with windows 7?
Thanks in advance for any info you may have :)
nnj925,
Welcome to SF. I would suggest:
Microsoft Security Essentials and then the free version of Malwarebytes.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ity-essentials
http://www.malwarebytes.org/
Welcome nnj925,
What Anti Virus is your son currently using?
I agree with Alan above re {free} Microsoft Security Essentials & {free} Malarewarebytes.
They can be downloaded via...
Microsoft Security Essentials - Free Antivirus for Windows
Malwarebytes : Download free malware, virus and spyware tools to get your computer back in shape!
Update both immediately.
I'd certainly agree with the latest version of Microsoft Security Essentials.
In fact, some people are saying it's that good now you don't even need Malwarebytes, but using both won't do any harm.
Just to clarify matters Use the Microsoft product as the "live" AV and the malwarebytes as an occasional extra scanner in manual mode, it is not advisable to run both "live"
He had a version of Kapkoski (spelling) that came with the computer for like 6 months...then he had bitdefender and it expired...and now with paying for college and all he really was looking for something free.
nnj925,
IF you are going to follow our recommendations you should remove all traces of Kaspersky & Bit Defender via their uninstall tools before installing the new programs.
Refer links below
http://support.kaspersky.com/downloa...vremover10.zip
How to uninstall BitDefender