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What is the best free antivirus and which is the best free anti-spyware?

which antivirus and antispyware free has the highest detection?
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02-09-2015, 09:46 AM
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I do not have much direct experience with Windows nowadays, but when I recently wiped and reinstalled a pc I installed Panda and Malwarebytes, which both had good reviews. However, Panda was making the computer a bit slow, so I switch it to Bitdefender.
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For once, your being skeptical is a good thing. Too many programs promise silly things lie "make your computer go faster". But it's BS. Lots of that software is very dangerous.

Sometimes good freeware exists.

- CCleaner is an excellent registry cleaner. https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner (download free version from FileHippo)
- Assuming Windows, Microsoft's own Security Essentials is good. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...tials-download

Sometimes payware is better. Kaspersky is excellent, as is MalwareBytes. But again, those are payware, not freeware.

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CCleaner not deep clean the registry
Avira Free Antivirus is good and is superior to avast and avg?
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There is no need to clean the registry. I would leave it alone.

I do suggest EMET to boost Internet Explorer's & other Microsoft applications' security. You can also enable additional security features for the browser of your choosing.

Malwarebytes has a free malware scanning program. I use it frequently.
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Eh, sometimes cleaning the registry is good if you just uninstalled lots of software. It can get too cluttered, and the uninstall rarely cleans up after itself 100%. You can end up with broken extensions, etc.

EMET is new to me. Interesting.

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I wanted the best free registry cleaner for windows 8

Avira antivirus Free is good? it is superior to Avast Free
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02-17-2015, 07:53 AM
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Eh, sometimes cleaning the registry is good if you just uninstalled lots of software. It can get too cluttered, and the uninstall rarely cleans up after itself 100%. You can end up with broken extensions, etc.

EMET is new to me. Interesting.
You do have a point - however, in the case some sort of registry incongruities do occur, I prefer to do any necessary cleaning manually. I feel that an automated tool has much more chance to cause problems.
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