Free antivirus & antispyware for commercial use?

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I know most of the major free antivirus and antispyware apps do not
allow commercial use. But some (Clamwin, Spybot, etc.), do. Does anyone
have any experience using free antivirus and/or antispyware software in
a small or medium business setting?

If so, what products would you recommend? Or is using a free product
just a bad idea for a business, due to lack of support, updates, etc?
Thanks for any input...
 
inshoop said:
I know most of the major free antivirus and antispyware apps do not
allow commercial use. But some (Clamwin, Spybot, etc.), do. Does anyone
have any experience using free antivirus and/or antispyware software in
a small or medium business setting?

If so, what products would you recommend? Or is using a free product
just a bad idea for a business, due to lack of support, updates, etc?
Thanks for any input...
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I have a customer that uses the AVG free edition in their office. They have
about 20 workstations and 1 server. It will not work on the server so they
had to buy a boxed version for this, but it works very well on the
workstations with no problems at all.
 
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I have a customer that uses the AVG free edition in their office. They
have
about 20 workstations and 1 server. It will not work on the server so
they
had to buy a boxed version for this, but it works very well on the
workstations with no problems at all.
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"AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use
only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial
purposes is strictly prohibited."

and

"AVG Free Edition is not intended for non-profit organizations. Grisoft
supports discounts for:
schools
charities
churches
municipal and government organizations
To see if your organization is eligible for a discount, contact us and we
will send you a discount application form. AVG Free is not authorized for
business or commercial use - this includes testing and evaluation."
 
JP Loken said:
"AVG Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single home computer use
only. Use of AVG Free Edition within any organization or for commercial
purposes is strictly prohibited."

and

"AVG Free Edition is not intended for non-profit organizations. Grisoft
supports discounts for:
schools
charities
churches
municipal and government organizations
To see if your organization is eligible for a discount, contact us and we
will send you a discount application form. AVG Free is not authorized for
business or commercial use - this includes testing and evaluation."
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That's my customer, I have advised them of this and we are not allowed to
offer any support for the product. I also advised they remove it, they have
chosen not to. They, like many other offices around the globe, choose to
take a chance.
Thanks for the advise, but I did know this already.
 
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