What is the best free Anti-Virus program?

[Holiday]

What is the best free Anti-Virus program?
I just formatted friends hard drive, it was beyond repair! (Norton found about 260 infection and M$ Anti-Spy-ware Beta1 found about 120 spy-ware infection).

So any how I need a good free Anti-Virus program


Thanks,
Holiday.

 

[elmarcorulz]

Use the search feature, theres a million threads liek this. Id reccommend AVG though

 

[red onion]

Avast or AVG would be ok. My vote would go to Avast; it updates itself and the virus defs automatically, and scans all incoming mail.
Plus it has a cool interface.

 

[elmarcorulz]

Avast or AVG would be ok. My vote would go to Avast; it updates itself and the virus defs automatically, and scans all incoming mail.
Plus it has a cool interface.

errr.....So does AVG

 

[Holiday]

thanks

 

[edifier]

In 2 recent testings, Antivir performed much better than the other free programs, but all were well below the top paid for ones.But Antivir did outperform a few paid antiviruses.