How to get complete antivirus protection for FREE

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How to get complete antivirus protection for FREE

If your computer is connected to the Internet and/or you use flash drives, external hard drives or memory cards between different computers then an antivirus, anti-spyware or Internet security software package is a must.

Now, as you may already be aware of, most (definitely not all) of the major players in malware protection have a free version of their software which is readily available for downloading from their various websites, but here’s the things – these free packages are limited in their protection and as a result of not being as complete or robust as the full/paid versions, they are unable to fully protect you and your precious data.  I must admit that the free versions are much better than having no protection at all, there is a much better legal, no-hacking-or-piracy-involved method of getting complete protection for FREE.  How you ask?  Well, keep reading.

Most of the software companies that offer protection software will allow you to try their software for a period of time (in most case 30 days).  This trial version of their software tend to be the complete package (almost the same thing you’d get if you were a paying customer less customer support and one or two features) since it is all about them trying to impress you enough to have you pay for the package – it just comes with a trial stamp and a “days limit”.  As far as I am concerned the trail versions are much better than the free versions, but that might be debatable.

Here’s the loophole – With the amount of very good protection packages that are currently on the market, you can have year round complete protection without spending a dime or breaking any laws (software piracy).  You simply try one software package and when the trial period has expired you move on to another.  There is just one tiny detail to tend to – you need to completely uninstall the trial software from you machine using the official uninstaller, not the uninstall option that is available after you would have installed the program.  This is key if you plan on using that particular software package for another go around.

Here are links to all the major antivirus software packages uninstallers (Link1, Link2,Link3, Link 4).  And here are my top 9 choices of protection software packages (not in any particular order):

1. Kaspersky
2. Eset
3. AVG
4. Avast
5. Bitdefender
6. FSecure
7. Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus+
8. Avira
9. McAfee

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