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Old 12-29-2005, 05:37 PM   #1
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I found this great free virus protection from called AVAST! It's only for home additions, (you can pay for commercial) but this program found adware and viruses on my computer, from 1993, that my norton or my current virus protection didn't find when I ran a scan! Check it out www.avast.com
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Old 12-29-2005, 05:41 PM   #2
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Cool!

My Dell came with McAfee but I think I'm going to swap it for Norton... and maybe this one you've mentioned. Ya can never have too much protection! LOL :p
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Old 01-19-2006, 05:22 PM   #3
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I like Grisofts AVG Free Edition. It isn't a resource hog, works well and it free.
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Old 01-20-2006, 11:39 AM   #4
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I like Grisofts AVG Free Edition. It isn't a resource hog, works well and it free.
Yes, I've been reading some very good things about AVG and I 'bout 7 days from dropping my McAfee account. It came free with my Dell and all the pop ups are starting to annoy!

Also, something weird... McAfee has this auto download function and it's been trying to download something for the past few hours! It was hanging up the machine so I made it stop! LOL

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Old 01-20-2006, 11:59 AM   #5
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Thumbs up Avast
I prefer Avast for FREE ANTI-VIRUS software.
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Old 01-20-2006, 04:12 PM   #6
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Thanks for the tip, gonna try that program out laters. But is it trial version or is it completely free?

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Old 01-20-2006, 04:34 PM   #7
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I've got AVG.....but only a "trial" edition....where can you find a "free" (totally free....not trial) at ?? I just got down d/loading AVAST......will let you know. (I'm not re-starting my PC NOW !!!)
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I found this great free virus protection from called AVAST! It's only for home additions, (you can pay for commercial) but this program found adware and viruses on my computer, from 1993, that my norton or my current virus protection didn't find when I ran a scan! Check it out www.avast.com
Thanks for sharing! I might consider this when my virus protection subscription expires!
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Old 01-20-2006, 10:22 PM   #9
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I've got AVG.....but only a "trial" edition....where can you find a "free" (totally free....not trial) at ?? I just got down d/loading AVAST......will let you know. (I'm not re-starting my PC NOW !!!)
Hey Doc,

Here ya go... http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1 There's a free version for Linux and Windows. Woo hoo!

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Old 01-22-2006, 07:34 AM   #10
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hey, thats really cool. thanks for sharing. i might go and trial that.
but does it actually stay free forever? because u dont find alot of free things.
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Hey,

Thanks for the link ..Lyte......but i got "AVAST" installed. It found 3 viruses on 1 of my PC's. AVG is good......don't get me wrong.......but you can do so much with "AVAST".
And AVAST doesn't hog up any resources like AVG does. AVAST can scan both "incomming & out-giong" mail. Protects your maching against malware scrippting found on some web sites.
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Old 01-23-2006, 05:10 PM   #12
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hey, thats really cool. thanks for sharing. i might go and trial that.
but does it actually stay free forever? because u dont find alot of free things.
According to the text it's free.... forever! Check it and let us know how you like it!

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