Free Anti-Malware/Anti-Virus Tools

The following software is intended for students and personal equipment not university owned assets.

Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free Internet Security

Ad-Aware is a free anti-spyware and anti-virus program designed to protect your PC from viruses, rootkits and data miners.

Ad-Aware Internet Security

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a powerful and trusted anti-malware tool. It’s intended to find and remove worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware and more. It also claims to remove malware that other anti-virus and spyware programs cannot find or remove.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

Sophos Anti-Virus

Sophos Anti-Virus provides protection for home Mac users against all known malware, including both Mac and Windows-specific threats such as Trojan horses, viruses, worms and spyware.

Sophos Anti-Virus

Microsoft Free Antivirus

Microsoft Security Essentials protects your computer against general malicious software such as rootkits, Trojans and spyware.

If you are running Microsoft Security Essentials, you do not need to run Windows Defender. Microsoft Security Essentials is designed to disable Windows Defender in order to manage the PC’s real-time protection.

Microsoft Security Essentials

TrendMicro Free Antivirus Tools

The TrendMicro website has a variety of tools to help prevent and clean-up your pc from potential threats such as viruses, Trojans, worms, unwanted browser plugins, and other malware.

Free TrendMicro Antivirus