Hey guys,

As the title suggests, I am tryin to find a decent free 64 bit antivirus program. AVG Free appears to be 32bit and for memory runs in 64 bit windows, but has a 64bit version that is not free...

Anyways, what do you guys recon?

bump.. need the same thing

I run Avast!...it's OK. I think it's a bit underdone, not sure how good it's real time scanning is but it seems to do the job.

Avast (apparently) works for 64bit Vista.

I was giving praise to Avast but I seem to have got back the virus that I thought Avast had removed :(

I keep getting a pop-up down near the clock stating that my computer is infected and to 'click here' to install special XP anti-spyware software.

I think a format is on the way....

I had evast last time i dabbled in 64bit... It was short lived, but as i remember avast ran out of time and was no longer free.

It's still free, you just have to register.

Mission, that one did the rounds, apparently not much beside a reinstall stopped it.

Dont know if things have been updated, but my friends stopped crying about it so I guess it was atleast mostly stopped.

Mission, that one did the rounds, apparently not much beside a reinstall stopped it.

If you don't know what your doing, that is most definately the case.

I've had excellent sucess with removing infestations of all variants of XP Antivirus using a little utility from
here

It may take one or two runs to clean it up, it will do it tho. In addition to that, I use sysinternals "autoruns" to identify problem keys manually.

yep combfix rules for getting rid of that stupid popup saying you are infectec crap.

Also malwarebytes.

avast home edition + spybot = :D

So what are you guys doing to get a virus or two?

Cool thanks for the info, at least I'm not alone.

The first time I got it, I don't know where it came from. I suspected it was a cd-rom that one of my kids brought home from school. Avast seemed to clean it up ok.

The second (or maybe it's still the first and was never removed properly) was when I was downloading something. Clicked on the link and bang, up came the pop-ups and the computer retarted :(

Still works ok just has annoying pop-ups. I'll do a reinstall when I get some back-ups down.

In terms of backing up, if I just back-up all MP3's, photo's etc (not windows folder or most programs that are installed) I'm not likely to back-up the virus and then reinstall the virus on the new install when I copy all the backed up data over, am I?