As mentioned in the article, my own strategy is Avast alongside Comodo Firewall. I haven’t had an infection on my own machines for several years now and like I said, I tend to engage in risky internet surfing. It’s kept me safe so far.

In the past AVG was my recommended product but the past few versions are heavy on resources slowing down the machine. My partner with whom I share our retail location who runs a separate business has the paid version of AVG on his machines. It often crashes so he recently decided to try out McAfee since it came with a new Dell he recently purchased.

In independent test reports AVG does not seem to do as well in either detection or cleaning as other free products.

Nevertheless, AVG can still claim to be one of the best known AV apps out there and has a large following. I still use it for preliminary offline scanning of computers using a bootable version so that I can scan a PC without booting Windows.

A short list of the free apps that I feel are worthy of consideration can be found in one my my other articles on this site at http://syspc.net/free-legitimate-anti-virus-software/