Hacker Ten

If you just got your new shiny Windows 7 out of the box and are thinking about how to protect yourself from spyware and malware online, free antivirus software does a pretty good job, there is no need to shell out any cash if you are the average Joe Doe. Actually, most viruses get into computers thanks to people installing cracked software, they themselves authorise that trojan to be installed together bundled with their cracked program. The most stupid of all of them even install a hacked antivirus.

Here goes a list of free antivirus software that claims to be compatible with Windows 7, there is no reason why you should not look after your operating system security, even more given that you have to pay nothing, this is not a free trial this is truly free antivirus software with regular updates, if you want extra features you can upgrade to their paid for version, but otherwise it works just fine.

• Avira Antivir Personal Edition

• avast! Antivirus Home

• AVG

If you have an old computer with old hardware there is a good chance you may not be able to run the latest Microsft Windows 7 operating system, officially, if you want to run Windows 7 on your PC you will need this as a minimum:

Windows 7 Minimum System requirements:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

There is an easier way to know if your PC will run Windows 7, simply download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, an official tool by Microsoft itself. You can get it from here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor

This tool will also tell what software installed in your computer is not compatible with Windows 7.

Windows 7 minimum system requirements