Free Antivirus
AVG used to be the free antivirus of choice- to the point nobody minded that annoying sig it would place in your email to tell everyone how great it was. But now they not free and so instead I find a new king of the freebies Avast from Alwil software.
Now you would think that anything free might be mite crap. Not with Avast. It actually offer a decent set of features thought it doesn’t qualify as a full internet suite unlike Trend Micro, Symantec’c Norton or Kaspersky. It also does suffer a little amateurish voice warning. “Your Antivirus has been updated”! Warning! A virus has been found!” Good times, good times needed especially with the little bells and alarms that sound off in your head.
Usability took a bit of a hit as trying to use the scanner first-off was a bit confusing. There are no default scan regions for one setting - they make you a pick a region first and then scan which is a little bit irritating. Then there’s how it looks more like MP3 player than an actual antivirus program. A little bit disconcerting but well, I’ll live that for free. 
Though it was active at cleaning most viruses we threw at it, Avast’s database seem a bit behind and in one case, could isolate and quarantine a virus but not clean the system from it. I had to manually clean up my machine and fix the Visual Basic errors the worm created in my system myself.
Does a pretty good job for free but it is just not as thorough as the other three and should probably be used with a good firewall and efficient spyware cleaner too. As far as free download go, the Home edition is pretty useful and if you want to give this or the professional version a try. Just download the 30 day trail version. Click Here To Download
Using a mobile phone software is very easy. Most of the computers software come with easy instructions. Some like microsoft office software install automatically. Rest require personalized preferences like a personal finance software. Similarly a tax software requires a few commands before getting installed.
