Need Anti-Virus Program

[Loui]

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their
program.
What are the best freeware anti-virus programs?

 

[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 27 Jun
2006 08:44:32 -0600, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do alt.comp.freeware,

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their
program.

You don't need a licence number to install AVG Free.

deKay

 

[Brian Robertson]

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their
program.

Why didn't you use the link to the FREE version of AVG that I gave you?

 

[John Jay Smith]

there is a free edition of avg..
the link is http://free.grisoft.com

you wont need a serial for this

 

[(¥ß3®pµ|||{]

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their
program.
What are the best freeware anti-virus programs?

AVG 7.x (currently 7.1.394) isn't that bad and has lots of fans as you
can see. There's also Antivir (free-av.com) and the one that I use:
Avast by Alwill

---> d0wnL04d: <http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html>
---> r3G1st3r: <http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG>

Don't worry about spam; in almost 2 yrs time I haven't received anything
from them that I didn't want.

 

[HVS]

On 27 Jun 2006, Loui wrote

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not
install their program.

Why won't they provide you with a license number?

Did you download the trial for the paid-for "pro" version, instead
of AVG Free?

 

[Alvar Liddell]

You do if you install it from a magazine CD

 

[Ron May]

AVG 7.x (currently 7.1.394) isn't that bad and has lots of fans as you
can see. There's also Antivir (free-av.com) and the one that I use:
Avast by Alwill

---> d0wnL04d: <http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html>
---> r3G1st3r: <http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG>

Don't worry about spam; in almost 2 yrs time I haven't received anything
from them that I didn't want.

FWIW, I'm another former AVG user who made the switch to Avast!
several years ago when AVG went through a dry spell on updates. Never
looked back. I re-register Avast! once a year and manually update
every few days. Avast! has caught a few really nasty things for me,
and doesn't bug me with false alarms. AVG got its act together and is
a great program now, but I don't see a need for me to switch again.

 

[Arild Bjørk]

AVG 7.x (currently 7.1.394) isn't that bad and has lots of fans as you
can see. There's also Antivir (free-av.com) and the one that I use:
Avast by Alwill

I'd like just to comment on Avast free version. I tried it out for a couple
of months and it seemed to work fine. I only noticed a problem with Pinnacle
Studio 9.4 when editing and burning dvds. Even though the machine had 1 GB
of memory and I have no programs running in the background I noticed
constantly disk access. Even when I paused my work and went away for minutes
the machine was constantly accessing the drives. Rendering video seemed to
take forever. But burning a rendered video was slow, much slower than I had
set.

From another PC with Norman anti virus I had noticed severe slowdown when
backing up a project with WinRAR. From the task manager I could see that
Norman had a high demand of cpu resources. Disabling Norman meant that the
backup task where shortened by several hours.

When I disabled Avast the disk accessing during Pinnacle stopped. No more
thrashing the drives. The burning of DVDs where back at set level. After
this I uninstalled Avast and decided to try out Avira free version
(http://free-av.com). I'm happy to say that it hasn't the same problem that
Avast has with video files and/or Pinnacle. The only irritating bit is the
nag screens for the full product, but that's rather a small price compared
to Avast bogging down the system.

I have also used Grisoft free version which works just as good as Avira free
version. If you don't like nag screens, you might like it better than Avira.

 

[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 27 Jun
2006 23:56:20 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do alt.comp.freeware,

You do if you install it from a magazine CD

No, you don't.

deKay

 

[Gert van der Kooij]

You do if you install it from a magazine CD

Then that's not the free version which can be downloaded from
http://free.grisoft.com so don't discuss it here.

 

[Franklin]

FWIW, I'm another former AVG user who made the switch to Avast!
several years ago when AVG went through a dry spell on updates.
Never looked back. I re-register Avast! once a year and manually
update every few days. Avast! has caught a few really nasty things
for me, and doesn't bug me with false alarms. AVG got its act
together and is a great program now, but I don't see a need for me
to switch again.

I too like Avast but I find the Resident Shield (which is the only thing
I use) takes a bit more power than AVG does. The settings are good and
let me customize it so it takes a bit less power.

 

[Elf Wizard]

Ο/Η Franklin έγÏαψε:

On 28 Jun 2006, Ron May<[email protected]> wrote:

I too like Avast but I find the Resident Shield (which is the only thing
I use) takes a bit more power than AVG does. The settings are good and
let me customize it so it takes a bit less power.

Hi Franklin, hi all,

Any experience with that?

Please read these post: http://freewarewiki.pbwiki.com/FeedBack051127
(post x), (from Clif's Newsletter), and
http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=13958 (from
Scot's Forum).

If someone has any experience with that, please share it with us.

Best Regards!!!
Giorgos.

 

[Brian Robertson]

You do if you install it from a magazine CD

Then it is up to the magazine to provide the licensing information.

 

[Gorbu]

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their

program.
What are the best freeware anti-virus programs?

Clamwin

 

[Morten Skarstad]

Ron May skrev:

FWIW, I'm another former AVG user who made the switch to Avast!
several years ago when AVG went through a dry spell on updates.

When did that drought stop? I switched for similar reasons, but have
bumped into AVG repeatedly since on other computers. Reliability of the
update servers seems to be a recurring problem.

 

[Craig]

Clamwin

Clamwin's what I run but:

- It's beta
- It doesn't have runtime coverage

I wouldn't classify it as "best," yet.

-Craig

 

[meow2222]

Gorbu wrote:

Clamwin's what I run but:

- It's beta
- It doesn't have runtime coverage

I wouldn't classify it as "best," yet.

Clamwin has one major issue: it doesnt even look for the majority of
viruses out there. Its not intended to. I think its intended for email
servers. As a general purpose PC AV its inappropriate and ineffective.

AFAIK there are only 3 free windows AVs that offer 100% detection of
ITW viri, Antivir, Avast and AVG.

IIRC F-prot DOS AV catches 100% in principle, but in practice its not
normally updated often enough to remain effective. It also has a fairly
yucky on-demand scanner that often puts people off using it, has no
resident shield, and does no scheduled system scans. So in practice its
usually not effective.

Note also that detection rates of non-itw viri is very low with all the
3 above, so archived media can not be considered safe just because
you've AV scanned them.


NT

 

[Mark]

AVG will not provide me with a License Number so I can not install their
program.
What are the best freeware anti-virus programs?

Try AntiVir Personal

http://www.avira.com/