February 20, 2005

  • In my estimation, this  - AVG FREE - is a very, very good FREE antivirus.


    It has earned the VB (VirusBulletin) 100% Award...


    The VB 100% logo is awarded to anti-virus products that:




    • Detect all In the Wild viruses during both on-demand and on-access scanning in Virus Bulletin's comparative tests.
    • Generate no false positives when scanning a set of clean files.

    AND it just detected 4 trojans on my daughter's pc that Symantec Antivirus earlier missed on a full scan.  Goodbye Symantec.


    Okay. This constitutes my public service announcement for the week.


    But while you're at it, if you haven't already, you may want to download and run:


    Microsoft's Antispyware (beta1).  It 's the only free anti-spyware that is real-time memory resident, self-updating, and runs scheduled (nightly) scans.


    But since no one antispyware package catches everything, go ahead and get Ad-Aware , too.  It's free, but you'll have to run it and keep it updated manually.


    Finally, get  Spyware Blaster  and keep it updated.  It's a free program that blocks adware and spyware from installing in the first place.


    Now back to my mystical ruminations....

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