Antivirus software are an important part of an operating system. You should not use any Windows system without installing antivirus software. If you don’t want to purchase any paid antiviurs software, you should install a free antivirus software available. There are so many free antivirus software available on the internet. I have made a list of few free antivirus for XP.
1) AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
When you talk about free antivirus software, AVG is on number one for providing free antivirus software. According to AVG terms and condition, AVG free edition is available only for home users. You can not use AVG free edition for office usage. AVG provides antivirus and anti spyware in free edition.
Avira anti virus is also a good software provides security for home users. As AVG this software is available only for home user. Avira has easy user interface and good detection level. Avira does not support POP or IMAP mail scanning.
3) Avast!
Avast is also available free of charge for home user and not for commercial user. Avast provides real time and mail scanning. Scheduling feature is not available in avast. Avast comes with skin-able interface so if you like to decorate your desktop than avast is for you.
4) Google Pack – Norton And PC tools SpyWare Doctor
You can use Google pack to take advantage of free security software available with it. To know more about Google pack visit my previous post Google Free Antivirus – Use Google Pack To Protect Your System
5) ClamWin
ClamWin is a open source software. You can use it freely any where even in your working environment. ClamWin has good detection level and supports mail scanning also. But it does not support real time scanning. The only benefit is you can use for your office use.
There are many other free antivirus software also available but I have included only widely used softwares. I hope you’ll find it useful.
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