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| Thread ID: 75610 | 2007-01-04 22:50:00 | Free antivirus software - what choices are there? | xmojo1 (4630) | Press F1 |
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| 512756 | 2007-01-05 02:06:00 | it is only XP that gets affected by crap from web browsing.Equaly fortunately it's one of XP's very few flaws. Mac systems don't have to get infected to be bad - they're already that way by design. :lol: | Greg (193) | ||
| 512757 | 2007-01-05 02:11:00 | Fortunately it is only XP that gets affected by crap from web browsing. since when are the other versions of windoze immune ? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 512758 | 2007-01-05 02:13:00 | FYI. Just in case you have the DVD (and a DVD drive of course) from the December 06/January 07 NZ PC World magazine. Both AVG Free Edition v7.5.428 and Avast 4 Home are on there, along with recent versions of a lot of handy software... HTH B#1 |
bachelorno1 (6556) | ||
| 512759 | 2007-01-05 02:46:00 | Viruses do not normally bother me as a Linux user - however have you seen: http://www.clamwin.com Note that this software is truely free - as it is under the GNU Licence. Note also that AVG is free for non-commercial users to use one copy only. I believe that if a commercial product is given away for free then people should observe the conditions :>) |
johnd (85) | ||
| 512760 | 2007-01-05 03:52:00 | Fortunately it is only XP that gets affected by crap from web browsing. since when are the other versions of windoze immune ? Unfortunately they are, sorry my bad wording. I should have said "Fortunately it is only WINDOWS that gets affected by crap from web browsing" |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 512761 | 2007-01-05 03:53:00 | Mac systems don't have to get infected to be bad - they're already that way by design. :lol: That would be a bad case of PEBKAC on your behalf Greg and the fact that Windows does a crap job of copying Apple. ;) Meanwhile back on topic for FREE antivirus for Windows. I have been using AVG for about 2 years and find it seems to pick up most of the nasties, anything else is usually taken care of with Ad Aware or Spybot. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 512762 | 2007-01-05 06:55:00 | ..... and the fact that Windows does a crap job of copying Apple. ;) I don't think that MS Windows is any more of a copy of Apple Mac than Apple MAC is a copy of the UNIX Xwindow system - I guess there are only a limited number of ways that you can make the basics of a point and click system work! The two important things are usability and the OS architecture (software design, reliability, security, ...). |
johnd (85) | ||
| 512763 | 2007-01-05 06:57:00 | P.S. winmacguy - if you dismount your horse you may get more followers :>) | johnd (85) | ||
| 512764 | 2007-01-05 07:00:00 | P.S. winmacguy - if you dismount your horse you may get more followers :>) OK, Ill do my best to work on it. Thanks for the hint. :) PS OS X did originate from NeXT OS so that probably has a lot to do with the Unixy look and feel. |
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