Good free anti-virus software!

Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
<http://www.free-av.com/>
<http://free.grisoft.com/>
<http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html>
<http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/>
<http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html>
<http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/>

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John Navas

John Navas wrote:
> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> <http://free.grisoft.com/>

Only free until Jan 15, 2007

John Navas wrote:
> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> <http://free.grisoft.com/>

Opps...that was ver 7.1

John Navas wrote:
> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> <http://free.grisoft.com/>


Nevermind...the 7.1 is being discontinued and replaced the the
30 day trial 7.5, after which some functionality is crippled.

[snip]
This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of AVG
Anti-Spyware. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version
containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At the
end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program will
turn into a feature-limited freeware version. The purchased license code
can be entered at any time.

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:47:55 GMT, decaturtxcowboy
<nope_none_@nowayspam.com> wrote in
<LYM7h.4874$(E-Mail Removed)> :

>John Navas wrote:
>> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
>> <http://free.grisoft.com/>
>
>Nevermind...the 7.1 is being discontinued and replaced the the
>30 day trial 7.5, after which some functionality is crippled.
>
>[snip]
>This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of AVG
>Anti-Spyware. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version
>containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At the
>end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program will
>turn into a feature-limited freeware version. The purchased license code
>can be entered at any time.

The free version works fine -- the limitations don't affect basic
functionality.

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John Navas wrote:
> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> <http://www.free-av.com/>
> <http://free.grisoft.com/>
> <http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html>
> <http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/>
> <http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html>
> <http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> John Navas

Avast works well, but the set up is a bit confusing.

"John Navas" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:47:55 GMT, decaturtxcowboy
> <nope_none_@nowayspam.com> wrote in
> <LYM7h.4874$(E-Mail Removed)> :
>
> >John Navas wrote:
> >> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> >> <http://free.grisoft.com/>
> >
> >Nevermind...the 7.1 is being discontinued and replaced the the
> >30 day trial 7.5, after which some functionality is crippled.
> >
> >[snip]
> >This setup contains the free as well as the paid version of AVG
> >Anti-Spyware. After the installation, a free 30-day trial version
> >containing all the extensions of the full version will be activated. At
the
> >end of the trial, these extensions will be deactivated and the program
will
> >turn into a feature-limited freeware version. The purchased license code
> >can be entered at any time.
>
> The free version works fine -- the limitations don't affect basic
> functionality.

agreed - grisoft seem to have lots of network capacity - updates even for
the free version by default once per day, and its rare for the auto update
to fail.

i put the free version on laptops when i rebuild them for others, and use
the paid version on a couple of my own PCs.

they do tend to hide the free version - and the licence says at most 1 copy
per user (which seems to be the terms for most other free AV as well).

So - if you have multiple machines you should be paying for it.

easy way to tell which is which - the download file name for the current
free version has "avg75free_<numbers>"...

link:
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-...g/us/tpl/tpl01
>
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> John Navas FAQ for Wi-Fi: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi>
> Wi-Fi How To: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_HowTo>
> Fixes to Wi-Fi Problems: <http://wireless.wikia.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_Fixes>
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:34:45 +0000, John Navas wrote:

> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
> <http://www.free-av.com/>
> <http://free.grisoft.com/>
> <http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html>
> <http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/>
> <http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html>
> <http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/>
>

ClamAV used here on both Linux and Windows boxes.

>Nevermind...the 7.1 is being discontinued and replaced the the
>30 day trial 7.5, after which some functionality is crippled.

You don't have to download the trial. There is a free version with no
trial mode at all just the plain free version. It has a slightly
different interface but otherwise appears identical to the previous
version.
Read
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5

see there is a free version, a free version with a trial included and
a paid for version. They do try and highlight the paid version more
prominently but then they did for the previous versions as well. There
now seems to be a free manual for the free version too.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:25:41 GMT, "johnny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 22:34:45 +0000, John Navas wrote:
>
>> Good free antivirus is readily available and strongly recommended!
>> <http://www.free-av.com/>
>> <http://free.grisoft.com/>
>> <http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html>
>> <http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/>
>> <http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html>
>> <http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/>
>>
>
>ClamAV used here on both Linux and Windows boxes.

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