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anitvirus program
Name: Mel Lum Date: March 10, 2004 at 15:37:26 Pacific OS: win98se CPU/Ram: 1.2ghz/384
Comment:
Can anyone recommend a good anitvirus program that is free to download?
Name: RobbieDickon Date: March 10, 2004 at 15:42:06 Pacific
Reply:
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
I use this one. It has been great for me...
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark Long Date: March 10, 2004 at 16:02:59 Pacific
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Seconded, a brilliant piece of software for nothing. I resorted to this when Norton Internet Security 2003 refused to get along with some software I have and froze my system up totally.
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Response Number 3
Name: sam2 Date: March 10, 2004 at 16:25:24 Pacific
Reply:
Agreed! AVG is excellent.
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Response Number 4
Name: ER4S3R Date: March 10, 2004 at 16:49:48 Pacific
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Actually Mel, I'd recommend McAfee, it runs on low system memory, has updated features and is effective against VBS viruses, trojans as well as your everyday viruses.
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Response Number 5
Name: spamtrap Date: March 11, 2004 at 03:27:01 Pacific
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AVG for background scanning.
Personally I use fprot for dos under win98. I have a shortcut to it in my context menu so I just manually scan anything I download. If you use outlook though, you could be stuffed by email virus's. I dont use IE or Outlook so fprot for dos is fine for me. And of course, it uses no resources until you run it. ..but if you forget to run it....
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Response Number 6
Name: Bobthearch Date: March 11, 2004 at 07:43:58 Pacific
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I've used AVG for a while now with no problems. It's free for home use.
I've also read good things about Avast. It's apparantly another free anti-virus program. You might try it if you aren't happy with AVG.
The commercial programs aren't that expensive, but they're useless unless you pay for the subscription service to keep the virus definitions up-to-date.
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