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Question about Virus Protection.
Name: Metthew Date: June 13, 2004 at 20:42:09 Pacific OS: 98se CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I have a question, I have no Virus protection. What do you recomend? I would like somthing free or a one time pay. By one time pay I mean... I only have to pay once for the program, A flat fee of like $30.00
Name: capt Date: June 13, 2004 at 20:55:29 Pacific
Reply:
I know of four free programs, and I will list then in popularity. Grisoft's AVG, Alwil's Avast, H+BEDV Datentechnik's antivirus and Softwin's Bit DEfender. Most programs that you will by will only provide updates for one year, and then you have to renew to get the updates. Without updates an antivirus program is useless. You can get a free year and six month program at the Windows Update page, by using the three step for security links. HTH
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Response Number 2
Name: keltikgent Date: June 13, 2004 at 21:02:11 Pacific
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hi i would recommend AVG been using it for 2 years now.uses very low resources right now its using about 3 mb of memory.i tried avast it used about 20 mb of memory.try diffrent ones see whats good for you. www.grisoft.com is avg keltik
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Response Number 3
Name: keltikgent Date: June 13, 2004 at 21:04:55 Pacific
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hi again im guessing you have no firewall.try sygate free firewall. http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
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Response Number 4
Name: rrlyon Date: June 13, 2004 at 23:15:03 Pacific
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All of the commercial AV programs are sold as a one year license only. Each year you need to buy a new license to keep getting the AV updates. If you buy the new version the following year, use the rebates that come with it and look for store discounts and credits you can get a new version each year for less than $10. Whatever your choice get one installed quickly.
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