On September 24, 2005 16:03, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2005 23:50, YankDownUnder wrote: > > G'Day, Ian! > > A combination of 1's and 0's > > > > created the following on Sunday 25 September 2005 12:35 am: > > > Why not Avast? AVG causes problems for folks running older than > > > XP........Avast is as stable as a rock Ugly interface but well worth > > > the download for windoze systems. > > > > Because I deal with a few hundred folks out there - and because I've > > tested it thoroughly - and because it's free - and because in conjunction > > with that and several other tools I've tested/tried/worked out - it just > > works. Only a handful of my customers are using anything other than > > Win2k/WinXP - and they're happy with what they've got, and they're also > > slated to move up to bigger things. > > I've had AVG bring down quite a few win98 boxes whilst trying to remove one > thing or another in DOS mode. It isn't perfect but it's free (as in beer), > stable, up_to_date and does what all the other more expensive (that's easy, > heh) candidates offer.....including the obligatory crash or freeze every > now and then:)
There's also ClamWin, the Windoze port of ClamAV. It's worked well for me, and I recommend it whenever a friend gets tired of paying protection money to Symantec or one of the others. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. "As you know, necessity is the mother of invention. I don't know who the father is. Remorse, I guess." - Red Green
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