On 8/7/2015 7:33 AM, Jonas Q wrote:
On 06-Aug-2015 13:47, Ron wrote:
On 8/6/2015 1:36 PM, mechanic wrote:
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 13:03:10 -0400, Ron wrote:

On 8/6/2015 7:30 AM, mechanic wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:03:26 -0400, Vitalic wrote:

I recommend Avira

Why?


Why not?

There are alternatives. On this machine I'm using Lavasoft Ad-Aware
but that's crashing one other machine I have so I moved to Avast.
But I've no real idea which is best.


Sure there are alternatives, but Avira is one of the top free AVs that
you can use. Has been for years.

Lavasoft Ad-Aware? I haven't used that in about 10 years. And that is
not an AV program. It is to be used in addition to your AV program.
Malwarebytes and Superantispware are better programs though.

Yep. Check your facts.
http://www.lavasoft.com/

I stand corrected. I don't know when they started making an AV but for
the years I used it, it was for ad/spyware, hence the name "Ad-Aware".

Got curious. 2008 is when they released an AV. Only thing is, they don't
use their own AV engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-Aware#History