If I get free anti-virus software on my laptop, should I uninstall my McAfee Free Trial software?
I just purchased a new Dell Inspiron 17 laptop and eccentric, with a free 30 trial software McAfee anti-virus. Since we do not want to pay for the software when the trial is over, I’m thinking of getting free software online. When I do, I uninstalled McAfee from my computer? Also, what is the best free antivirus and anti-spyware software that you can get?
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Answer by Samuel Adams
Yes, you should uninstall McAfee. Running more than one anti-virus programs can cause serious system conflicts and leave your system LESS protected. Not to mention it will cause serious system performance issues.
The best free anti-virus available is Avira or Avast! The best free anti-spyware you can get is Malwarebytes and SUPERAntiSpyware. Good luck mate!
Answer by Charley
nah leave it there so you can waste hard drive space
A few anti virus free trial products I can recommend:
If you won’t use McAfee after the trial then yeah uninstall it, it’d just be taking up space.
I would say getting AVG Free, you have an optional upgrade choice but I haven’t and it works fine for me.
http://free.avg.com/
Spybot Search and Destroy is free, it’s a great program as well.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html
Last I would say AdAware, just like AVG it has an optional upgrade choice, but it works fine without the upgrade.
http://www.lavasoft.com/
You definitely have to remove it before installing another antivirus program.
I use Avira and SuperAntiSpyware and haven’t had any infections.
Both are highly rated and both are free.
Uninstall it, otherwise your system will most likely start crashing when you install a new anti-virus. The best free anti-virus is AVG Free, installed with ThreatFire. Free anti-spyware would probably be either Ad-Aware Free or SuperAntiSpyware. MalwareBytes is another free anti-malware.
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You definitely need to remove McAfee first or it can cause some tricky problems.
http://www.freebugfix.com has a few good free antivirus programs in it’s list. I use AVG and it works very well.