Alternative Free Antivirus Programs
Here is a list of some popular free antivirus programs. We still highly recommend that you use Sophos. These software products are not endorsed or recommended by UBC IT and UBC IT cannot provide support for these products. This list is provided as reference only and is not meant to be a comprehensive list. There may be many other antivirus programs that may work for your system which are not listed:
- Avast Home Edition
- AVG Anti-Virus Free
- Avira Antivirus Personal
- ClamAV Antivirus
- ClamWin Free Antivirus
- ClamXav
- Microsoft Security Essentials (note the EULA restricts use only on personally owned computers)
- Panda Cloud Antivirus
- PC Tools Antivirus Free Edition
- Shaw Secure (for Shaw customers)
- Telus security services software (for Telus customers)
- List of paid and free antivirus programs [Wikipedia]
