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Antivirus Recommendation
Name: Sean Date: November 19, 2003 at 11:48:19 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: P4 - 512MB
Comment:
Can anyone recommend a good cheap or free alternative to McAffee or Norton Viruscan?
I'm sick of the lousy customer service anyway from both parties & hate the idea of being held to ransom to pay yet more money for up-to-date virus signatures, above what I've already spent on the initial product.
Name: capt Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:21:24 Pacific
Reply:
IMHO, the best deal available is from http://ca.com/ It is a version 3.7 of Zone Alarm pro firewall and Etrust antivirus that is free for one year from Computer Associates. Updates are automatic, daily scans and a decent rating from the virus testing labs and magazines like PC World, PC Magazine, etc. Two days ago it was $49.95!
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Response Number 2
Name: Tassie Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:27:34 Pacific
Reply:
I personally use Avast 4 Home Edition and recommend it, for home use it is free and can be obtained at www.avast.com/
Tassie
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Response Number 3
Name: Lesley Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:31:17 Pacific
Reply:
Many people use and recommend the Free AVG Vers 6.0...
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Make sure you get the Free one - left side panel
Lesley
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Response Number 4
Name: bill Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:32:32 Pacific
Reply:
You may want to check out Fix It Utilities from http://v-com.com.
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Response Number 5
Name: mike Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:35:30 Pacific
Reply:
One thought. As with most thing that are free - you get what you pay for.
Problems with Norton's AV? I installed it - get auto updates - at end of one year I resubscribe for $4.50. And that's if I don't want to manually d/l sig updates.
No problems! No calls to NAV techs.
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Response Number 6
Name: nm Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:50:57 Pacific
Reply:
Check this out from Computer Associates:
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm?
As part of the Microsoft "Protect Your PC" campaign, they are offering a free year of EZArmor Security Suite. Just came across it earlier today, thought it would come in handy to bookmark that page for when I come across people looking for a cheap/free alternative.
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Response Number 7
Name: Solarian Date: November 19, 2003 at 12:52:22 Pacific
Reply:
Sean:
Besides those already mentioned, here's one-stop shopping for free AV software:
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Summary: T, The two best known are probably Norton and McAfee. There are several others such as Kaspersky, Trend Micro, and the list goes on... The only "Security Suites" I've used are Norton and McAfee. Bot...
Summary: Hey...was wondering if any of u guy's or girls could recommend a good antivirus/ firewall to get...cos computer is in need of a good clean out and a bit of extra protection they need to be uptodate a...
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