virus protection

[Guest]

Hello: Can anybody suggest a free reliable virus protection. THANKS

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi kerrisky,

Try AVG 7 from www.grisoft.com

Additional note from Shenan:

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Antivirus:
avast! (Free and up)
http://www.avast.com/

AVG Anti-Virus System (Free and up)
http://www.grisoft.com/

AntiVir (Free and up)
http://www.free-av.com/

RAV AntiVirus Online Virus Scan (Free!)
http://www.ravantivirus.com/sc­an/

Symantec (Norton) AntiVirus (~$11 and up)
http://www.symantec.com/nav/na­v_9xnt/

Kaspersky Anti-Virus (~$49.95 and up)
http://www.kaspersky.com/produ­cts.html

Panda Antivirus Titanium (~$39.95 and up)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/
(Free Online Scanner: http://www.pandasoftware.com/a­ctivescan/)

McAfee VirusScan (~$11 and up)
http://www.mcafee.com/

Trend Micro (~$49.95 and up)
http://www.trendmicro.com/en/h­ome/us/personal.htm
(Free Online Scanner:
http://housecall.trendmicro.co­m/housecall/start_corp.asp)

Untested (by me):
eTrust EZ Antivirus ($29.95 and up)
https://www2.my-etrust.com/com­merce/buy.it.cfm

AntiMalware:
Lavasoft AdAware (Free and up)
http://www.lavasoft.de/support­/download/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdn )

Spybot Search and Destroy (Free!)
http://www.safer-networking.ne­t/en/download/index.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/atdk )

Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner (Free!)
http://www.kephyr.com/spywares­canner/
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate3 )

SpywareBlaster (Free!)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.co­m/sbdownload.html
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate6 )

IE-SPYAD (Free!)
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehow­es/www/resource.htm
(How-to: http://snipurl.com/ate7 )

CWShredder (Free!)
http://www.softbasket.com/down­load/s_8114.shtml

Hijack This! (Free)
http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/
( Tutorial: http://hjt.wizardsofwebsites.c­om/ )

ToolbarCop (Free!)
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tool­barcop.htm

Browser Security Tests
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/­BrowserSecurity/

Popup Tester
http://www.popuptest.com/

The Cleaner (49.95 and up)
http://www.moosoft.com/

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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