If you are searching for an antivirus program that is reliable and also free, you don’t have a lot of choices. You can find many free antivirus programs online, but not all of them are reliable and do a good job. Free, efficient options are indeed available, the kind that do not have any hidden costs, and such programs are Avira and Malewarebytes. Let’s see which of them is better and why.
Avira
Avira offers a premium program, but also a free version, available for download. The free version is quite enough for many users, who don’t need to upgrade to premium. This antivirus isn’t particularly fast, nor is it resource friendly. But it makes up for these flaws by having one of the most –if not the best- search function available on both paid and free markets. This is due to the fact that the Avira team has been working on this antivirus for years, developing an extremely thorough scanning tool, which will detect almost everything. The problem is that it does not have any real-time protection. For that, and other functions, you will have to get the premium version.
Malewarebytes
The reasons behind Malwarebytes’s ever growing popularity is the fact that it provides very fast scans and consumes very few resources. Also, its user interface is very friendly. This antivirus stands out by detecting threats that other antivirus programs overlook or ignore. In some cases, it might even detect a file as a threat, even though that files isn’t actual malware, but only has the potential of becoming a security risk. In terms of features, you need to get the premium version, just like Avira, if you want to benefit from all the extra goodies, such as real-time protection.
Both Avira and Malwarebytes presents strong and reliable functions, but for today’s comparison, Malwarebytes wins just because it does things so much faster, and even does a good job. It also is so user firiendly, and works so well when paired with other antivirus programs such as Avast, that it kind of almost gets away with the fact that without the paid version, it’s pretty much irrelevant. This is what happened to Avira, which lost due to not having any real-time protection for its free version, among others.
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