Avast Home version, from alwil software, is free for non-commercial use, and I've fixed a lot of infected XP machines with it. When installed, it can do a boot time scan which occurs before anything else (afaik) in windows loads, so it seems to catch more than anything else I've tried lately. Also seems to have a lighter system load than AVG.
-S On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Sean Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:48:30AM -0600, Mike Bigalke wrote: >> Install the free anti virus program from www.avira.com and run >> it. Also try the open source anti-virus ClamAV (it won't >> interfere with any other anti-virus programs since you have to >> run the program manually to detect viruses, DNS spoofers and >> root-kits). > > I'll try those too. Thanks. > >> And of course, you could just run Ubuntu or some other Linux >> release and not worry about the problem at all. > > Can't. This is a library computer. I can't even use a liveCD or > boot from a usb OS either, not permanently at least, because the > computer only connects via wireless and I don't have the > passphrase to connect. I'd have to pay for that access. > > Sean > -- > Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:38:03 -0600 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
