# Best Free Anti-Virus?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-anti-virus/508983>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 5, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-anti-virus/508983 "2009-09-05T19:18:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-anti-virus/508983/21 "2009-09-09T17:15:02Z")

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> [@Reply](#):
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> They did, actually. Go to Settings -\> Update (Basic) -\> Details -\> Set Running Mode to Silent and uncheck the “Show sliding box after automatic update” box and the “Show update progress” box.

Wow, good work!

I never figured that one out, but just did it.

I luv me Avast.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-anti-virus/508983/22 "2009-09-09T17:18:22Z")

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After getting fed up with resource-hog AVG 8.0, I’ve been using [Avira.](http://www.free-av.com/en/download/index.html) No complaints so far, it’s unobtrusive and seems to work great. It has gotten high marks for virus detection. The only downside is it displays an advertising message once a day, but there are methods to disable that if you want to worry with it, I didn’t.

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