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Windows XP SP3 : Antivirus Discussion

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as windows xp gets older it's also gotten harder to find a good solid antivirus that works on it and this topic should help clear things up in this post I will be listing and researching the different antivirus for windows and post them here for anyone to download (inspired by the antivirus thread on msfn)
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Antivirus That Are Working on XP SP3 as of 2023

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after doing a little bit of research I found this page by AVG (a subsidiary of avast) https://www.avg.com/en-us/windows-xp-antivirus#android which is the windows xp support page for avg antivirus as well as the download for the last version on windows xp (it only gets definition updates thou)
                                                      

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and the wonderfull avast free antivirus https://www.avast.com/windows-xp-antivirus (which I would consider the best choice)
                                                      

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as well as malwarebytes anti-malware for windows xp https://archive.org/details/malwarebytes_for_win_xp#ia-carousel (you have to download it from archive.org now as the original download is gone and I can't find the original page for it)
                                                      

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and clamwin seems like the better option to any of these (it's open source I think) and supports everything down to windows 95 https://clamwin.com/
                                                      

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