I have Mcafee viruscan Enterprise 8.0.0 anti virus installed on my cpu. I downloaded Avg free for my GIRLFRIEND and really liked it. My question is which ones better Avg or mcafee? Or which one would admins recommend?.Neither.
- Avira free antivirus: http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html
- Avast! free antivirus: http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/
Wow, I am impressed. I ran Avira as soon as I downloaded It, It found 3 trojans that mcafee did not FIND!!! One was on a chess game that I downloaded! How do you know when to delete or quarantine a virus?I would quarantine FIRST then delete later if everything is ok. When removing spyware and parasites, on occasion their removal can cause something to not work right. If you quarantine, it cannot run, but it can get restored to get the PC working again if needed. Also sometimes you may delete something that later you decide you wish you had not removed.

I've heard of viruses infecting a system file like Explorer.exe and the anti-virus software detected the infection but INSTEAD of fixing the problem, deleted Explorer.exe. That's just one example. Quarantine is the safest way to remove malware. If your PC and your programs are running correctly after a period of time (say, three weeks), then you can clean out the quarantine files.

-Don
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I have Mcafee viruscan Enterprise 8.0.0 anti virus installed on my cpu. I downloaded Avg free for my girlfriend and really liked it. My question is which ones better Avg or mcafee? Or which one would admins recommend?.