Best FREE antivirus/spywear?

Hey guys, my licence on AVG just ran out and I was curious to know what the best free anti-virus/ anti-spywear is.

So far AVG has been great, however the cost of buying a new licence is pretty steep and to be quite honest I would rather support a free community run software or such if I can. Plus I understand many of them rival if not perform better than AVG.

Any suggestions?

 

I use Avast. Only issue I've had with it is it doesn't like PS2 Beta. It's very customizable and user friendly. It's worth checking out.

http://www.avast.com/en-us/index

 

I dislike security essentials. I don't know why but I'm very reluctant to use it.

 

Maybe because microsoft is putting it out? That was generally how I thought when they first released it because they hadn't done anything like it before. Since then I have used avast/AVG and am currently using avast. I had totally forgotten about windows version of it and it more than likely does it's job.

 

Thanks Enigma, this is perfect. I'll be able to make a decision with this. Will update when I have decided on one with my verdict ^^

 

Spybot Search and Destroy and Malwarebytes are the only 2 I've used the past few years once I found out these caught things my paid anti-virus didn't get. These 2 go on every new build I make.

 

I've used Microsoft Security Essentials exclusively for quite some time now without issue.

 

use avast, register it for free, gives you 1 year of nag free use, then you must register it again.


turn off sounds, enable gaming mode, turn off sandboxing feature.

you are set