dullneon : “ (Volume 2002 - 2007) ” – the hastily written, fluctuant & individually arranged archives
“Free anti-virus software.” was penned precisely on 29 April, 2007 09:59 PM, which happened to be a Sunday. but you know what? dullneon.com's random notes has now moved to a new location.
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Free anti-virus software.
A lot of people ask me, being the friendly neighbourhood geek that I apparently am, what free anti-virus software they could install on their home computers. Currently, I am a paying, and very satisfied, user of Kaspersky Antivirus on my Windows workstation and I would recommend it very highly. But if you’re on a budget and run Windows, there are some free alternatives out there, like…
- Avast! 4 Home Edition
- Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic
- AVG Anti-Virus Free
- ClamWin Free Antivirus
- BitDefender 8 Free Edition
Being free, some of these offerings may not have some of the features of the paid ones, so your mileage may vary. If you’re one of those who thinks the Browser is the Computer™, there are also several Java or ActiveX based free online scanners which run off your browser, such as…
I’m sure there are lots more out there, but I just listed the ones that worked for me before. And if you’re on Mac OS X, screw the slow and lumbering Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh and give ClamXav a try.
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this was published on 29 April in the year 2007, which was a Sunday. anyway, all this is old and archived. everything has been now been moved, so head on down to the revamped almost daily random notes (unless of course you like this old stuff too much to part with it).
