Shield Yourself.

Hey Guys, responding to a request made by Red-Imp, GadgetCore has saved you the time consuming search and filtered out between help and hype to find you the best anti-virus program.

The winner without a doubt is:

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0

The Award winning protection to meet your basic security needs

• Surf, and search with confidence, while LinkScanner® keeps you safe from harmful sites
• Get online and offline protection from viruses, spyware, and other nasties
• Enjoy consistently high-speed PC performance with our new enhanced virus scanner
• Automatic updates keep your protection current
• Compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000

Overall it’s stupidly easy to use, provides rock solid protection and of course is FREE.

Also a plus point which might sound odd, is that it’s not overly cautious and wont block for example ‘safe’ games your installing.

However if you want more sophisticated options such as:

• Advanced Anti-Rootkit protection
  Ensures even the most sophisticated hidden threats are kept out
• Game Mode
  Keeps you safe without interrupting you while you’re playing
• Phishing protection
  Checks to make sure web pages really are what they appear to be
• Enhanced Firewall
  Prevents hackers from seeing inside your computer
• Anti-Spam
  Blocks spammers and scammers from clogging your system
• Expert Technical support
  Free technical assistance whenever you need it

Then you invest £20 to £30 in an advanced version (There are free trials avaliable):

• AVG Anti-Virus 9.0
• AVG Internet Security 9.0

But in this reviewer’s opinion, the free one is more than you need.

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

For advanced users

But if you find AVG too full and resource hogging, Avast Antivirus is a lighter alternative and in a majority of benchmarks of this Antivirus. This is for more advanced users with more advanced options and a less helpful UI. Although this has been recently updated, AVG’s UI is still much better. Co-founder and reviewer George uses Avast however AVG is still a great option being stupidly easy to use.