The Best Free Antivirus To Protect Windows 10

Most of the windows users are looking for the best free antivirus for their windows PC. The most essential thing for any computer is to have a good antivirus software that protects the PC from malwares and other viruses and keeps the system clean. It is obvious that only a valid licensed antivirus software can provide complete protection to the computer, but it generally cost higher. There are also many antivirus software which are available for free, and are also capable of providing a decent protection to your system.

There are many windows user who do not want to buy a antivirus software and opt for free antivirus programs. It involves a lot of confusion as to choose which is the best free antivirus that can provide a good protection on par with the licensed one. So this post helps you to choose the best antivirus program for your windows PC for free by analyzing all the features of this free antivirus program.

Some of the antivirus software does not offer a free program while others who offer the free program will provide only limited features when compared to the full version of the same software. We at PC Software Review always recommend to have buy a full version of antivirus software for your windows PC if you extensively browse the internet and do lot of financial transactions.

The full version usually consist of extra features like safeguarding your browsing session, Parental control, firewall protection and many more which cannot be found in the free version of the software. The main features to look for when choosing a free antivirus software are the protection it offers to the PC, its performance on the system and how efficiently it can remove the malwares that are there in the PC already. Now let’s see the top 5 antivirus software that are available for free for your windows computer.

1. Avast Antivirus software

Among the free antivirus software, Avast offers the best protection to the windows PC. When we tested the software in our test PC, it was able to eliminate most of the malwares and Trojans. But it could not detect some of the latest malwares. The real time protection offered by Avast is also better when compared to the other free antivirus software.

It also has a very minimal impact on the system performance among the other free software tested by us. Avast also provides some additional features with the free version which most of the other software usually don’t provide.

2. AVG Antivirus software

AVG was the second best performer in our virus removal test. It was able to provide the same protection as that of Avast both in removing the virus and in real time. But when we tried to run a full scan of the system, we were able to see a considerable slow down in the performance of the system.

AVG antivirus free also provides some additional features like email protection and web protection which offers more security to the user PC. It is only because of its performance impact on the system, it is ranked second in our test.

3. Avira Antivirus free

Though Avira was able to remove the malware samples and some other Trojans from the system, we are not impressed with its performance when compared to the other two antivirus software Avast and AVG. It could not detect most of the viruses which the other two had detected and eliminated easily. It was making use of a very minimal system resource when it is running and so we did not find any noticeable impact on the system performance.

Unlike the other two free antivirus products, Avira antivirus free does not provide any addition features and you need to upgrade to the licensed version in order to access those features. The user interface was modern and easy to use when compared to the rest of the software that we tested.

4. Bitdefender Antivirus

While Bitdefender Antivirus licensed version offers some of the top notch features and excellent protection to your PC, its free version does not have much to speak about. In our test, we found that the software was not able to remove most of the malwares and viruses. The real time protection was also not good when compared to the other free software.

Birtdefender succeeds in providing a decent performance to the user PC, we were able to browse and perform other activities when the scan was running. The user interface was good but we did not find any features available to navigate. If you just want a basic protection without any features then you can consider Bitdefender Antivirus Free.

5. 360 Total Security

360 Total Security does not have much to offer to its user in terms of protection against the virus and other malwares. 360 Total security is the least scorer in our test for free antivirus software. The real time protection was better than the virus removal performance. It also took more time to scan the system compared to other software. It was making use of nearly 17% of the system resource when the scan was running which is the highest in our test.

360 Total security has some additional features like cleanup tool and browser protection which helps in safeguarding your browsing session but this feature has very limited capability. The user interface was also easy to use, we were able to navigate to the different sections of the software without any difficulty.

If you do not want any of these free antivirus software, then there is Microsoft Windows Defender which is in built in all the windows  PC which performs the functions of a normal antivirus software like scanning your PC regularly and checking for updates and installing them. But you cannot find any additional features like safe browsing, password manager etc. Some of the recent tests have also reported that Microsoft Windows defender provides better protection than most of the antivirus software available in the market