Free anti virus for Windows Vista

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Roy Newling

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Does anyone know of a free anti virus program that will work with Windows Vista Home Basic.
 
it takes hours to do a scan.

Most antivirus packages do.
None continually scan the entire computer.
Most scan the whole system once and then check files as they are used.
Some will then schedule a full scan perhaps monthly.
If I use a corporate scanner like Norton on my 200GB + system it will take about an hour and a half to scan everything.
 
Concur with masqueraid; I have AVG on my Vista system (but the paid for 7.5 AV+Firewall) and the last system scan took 3 hours 27. I have it scheduled to scan at 4am, so don't (usually :D ) notice it.
 
"Avast!" Antivirus is also good. Realtime scanning of the comptuer, automatic updates, and is constantly scanning the system in the backround (but uses little memory/cpu)
 
Thanks for all your help, I have settled for Avast.:)
 

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