AV programs again

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JollyJoe

Like most folks I am fed up with NAV and want a change.

I know there are freebee AV progs around but keeping them up to date seems
to me to be a continuing effort, so how can anyone do this for free?

TIA

jj
 
JollyJoe said:
Like most folks I am fed up with NAV and want a change.

I know there are freebee AV progs around but keeping them up to date seems
to me to be a continuing effort, so how can anyone do this for free?

TIA

jj
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Avast is free, and can be set up to auto-update:

http://www.avast.com
 
Avast is free, and can be set up to auto-update:

http://www.avast.com
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Avast is better. I have been using it for
3 months and it has automatically updated
itself every day for the last week. I auto-updated
a few minutes ago. I believe Avast is the best
AV program I have ever used. I have never paid
for one and have used 10+ AV programs.
 
Avast is better. I have been using it for
3 months and it has automatically updated
itself every day for the last week. I auto-updated
a few minutes ago. I believe Avast is the best
AV program I have ever used. I have never paid
for one and have used 10+ AV programs.
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It is now 5:38 AM, EST. Avast just automatically
upgraded itself. This is twice in the last 12-18 hours.
Not bad. I never saw this in AVG. I will consider buying
a paid version because it has been so good. Like I
said, I have never paid for any version of AV software.
 
JollyJoe said:
I know there are freebee AV progs around but keeping them up to date
seems to me to be a continuing effort, so how can anyone do this for
free?
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Both AVG and Avast! can do this. The latter is probably the most hassle free
one.
 
Andri said:
Both AVG and Avast! can do this. The latter is probably the most
hassle free one.
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Andri et all,

AVG does so, and they are quite fast in updating. Being on DSL I have
set the update manager to check for updates every day, and most of the
time (6 days out of 7) there are updates for the program's anti-virus
information database (avi). Also I must add that AVG behaves very well
with FoxMail. Last week when one of my eMail addresses was swamped with
Sober.P infected messages AVG caught them all.

AVG's update isn't a hassle, at least not if you use the automatic
update; but then... you wouldn't need the files from either grisoft.com
or majorgeeks unless your system is infected with one of those viruses
that will block access to anti-virus sites...

HtH

Dick
 
Dick Hazeleger said:
Andri et all,

AVG does so, and they are quite fast in updating. Being on DSL I have
set the update manager to check for updates every day, and most of the
time (6 days out of 7) there are updates for the program's anti-virus
information database (avi). Also I must add that AVG behaves very well
with FoxMail. Last week when one of my eMail addresses was swamped with
Sober.P infected messages AVG caught them all.

AVG's update isn't a hassle, at least not if you use the automatic
update; but then... you wouldn't need the files from either grisoft.com
or majorgeeks unless your system is infected with one of those viruses
that will block access to anti-virus sites...

HtH

Dick
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Thank you all for the responses. I already posted this days ago but it
hasn't
appeared on my server.

jj
 
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