Any Good Free Virus Checkers out there??

Apart from the usual Norton's anti-virus, I pondered if there were any decent free virus checkers out there...after much searching for the ultimate virus checker, I stumbled upon this avast! which looked pretty impressive, with three/four seperate components to scan your computer - standard, network, p2p, and mail shield but after 2 months of using it, I don't think it is that comprehensible, and useful to people as it doesn't really notify you many messages such as if it is scanning or not.

I typed in the keywords best virus checker, and found this post. Following my instincts, I will find out if this free virus checker is any good and keep you posted.

"Alice J" <> wrote in message
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>| I need a good virus checker. FREE please.....I don't want AVG
>| because I heard it fails a lot of tests. I won't use or pay for
>| kaspersky because I don't trust Russian spammers. And Nortons just
>| sells rubbish.
>|
>| Can someone recommend the best FREE virus checker that I can
>| download??....One with
>| regular updates PLEASE!! ;o)
>|
>| Alice

This will get you free for a year - auto updates, all that. And it's better
than AVG.
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/