Free Antivirus Software
A virus infection on your computer is very dangerous and depending on the severity of the virus can cause major damage to your files, causing data loss and corruption of files, to help avoid this we recommend you make regular backups onto removable media, like CD-R\ DVD's, backup drives or floppy, just ask yourself what would it be like if you lost the most important files on your computer with no way of getting them back?
There are thousands of viruses floating around the internet and new ones are detected every day, these virus files can infect your system in many ways from email attachments, CD and DVD disks, Flash Drives and basically anything that can be used to place files onto your computer. Today's modern software includes a lot of security built in and this has helped in the combat against these infections but software can still have "bugs" and these can be exploited by the virus to keep on infecting your system. Anti Virus Software Downloads
A comparison chart of antivirus products and how well they perform can be viewed here
There are many free antivirus software products available to use and we have provided a link to some below.
Online single file Virus Scan
Recommended when downloading anything and checks against major scan software
Free Anti Virus Software
- Comodo Anti Virus Free
- Avira
- Bit Defender 10 (Requires Registration)
- AVG Free 8.5 Antivirus