ANN: avast! Virus Cleaner

[Eda Kucera]

ALWIL Software is pleased to announce the release of avast! Virus
Cleaner version 1.0.136.

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will completely remove
selected viruses & worms from your computer. It can handle the
following virus families: Badtrans, BugBear, Nimda, Opas, Sircam,
Sobig, Yaha, all including the latest variants.

For more information please visit our web site at
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html.
You may download the trial version here:
http://www.avast.com/files/eng/aswclnr.exe
Download size: 227 KB

avast! Virus Cleaner is a free tool that will completely remove
selected viruses & worms from your computer.
It is able to stop viruses that are active in memory, it will
disinfect your files, remove virus registry & startup items, and even
delete the virus working files.
Currently, it can handle the following virus families: Badtrans,
BugBear, Nimda, Opas, Sircam, Sobig, Yaha, all including the latest
variants.


Eduard Kucera
ALWIL Software
http://www.avast.com

 

[your name]

ALWIL Software is pleased to announce the release of avast! Virus
Cleaner version 1.0.136.

Eduard Kucera
ALWIL Software
http://www.avast.com

I was going to say why is there a trial version if it's free but the
pro version has a trial time and then it's shareware. They say the
home version is free and looks interesting. I downloaded it. ~6.5megs
expands to around 22megs. There's a rather stiff license agreement
that doesn't actually say anything specific about freeware. When I
started the program it asked for a key and would only let me use a 60
day free trial even though I specifically downloaded the home version.
So then I found out you have to register on their site for a license
key. They want e-mail home address and a phone number. I'm not ready
yet to go down that path so I decided to uninstall. It does have a lot
of nice features though so it might be worth a look.

 

[John Corliss]

I was going to say why is there a trial version if it's free but the
pro version has a trial time and then it's shareware. They say the
home version is free and looks interesting. I downloaded it. ~6.5megs
expands to around 22megs. There's a rather stiff license agreement
that doesn't actually say anything specific about freeware. When I
started the program it asked for a key and would only let me use a 60
day free trial even though I specifically downloaded the home version.
So then I found out you have to register on their site for a license
key. They want e-mail home address and a phone number. I'm not ready
yet to go down that path so I decided to uninstall. It does have a lot
of nice features though so it might be worth a look.

I agree. I don't give out my phone number to *anybody* and don't like
being put into the position of having to lie to get access to a
program, so I too will pass. Don't know what I'll do when AVG goes
$ware. Guess I'll do without.