Re: Free Anti-Virus Program

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From: NoNoBadDog! (mypants_bjsledgeATpixi.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:19:10 -1000

I agree...no "perfect" solution, no will there likely ever be. The closest
to being perfect is Norton AntiVirus, despite what the uneducated say about
it slowing a system down of hogging resources or the other BS they spew. I
have used NAV for years and it has never let me down.

As far as free AV goes...you get what you pay for...

AVG in particular always performs poorly in any valid testing I have ever
seen, and on the rare occasion I have used it, it failed to detect viruses
that were detected by NAV.

Bobby

"Road Runner" <beepbeep@9y.com> wrote in message
news:ud9alsrzEHA.3336@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hey Roy ... To be totally honest I don't think there is a perfect
> Anti-Virus program out there and I wouldn't take those survey that those
> website list as to what is good and not so good , If I did, I would be
> using Norton and I know I would never use Norton product ever again ....
> I rather though have an Anti_Virus program that doesn't hog the resource
> like AVG , nor does Avast but with Avast which I was using awhile ago I
> did get infected with a Virus and it didn't catch it , So I move onto AVG
> which hasn't let me down as of yet ... Knock on wood .... I did like the
> wishbone type interface of Avast ... Companies that provide "Free" stuff
> should get our high fives ...
>
>
> "Roy Coorne" <rcoorne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eCQQ%23PrzEHA.2196@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> Road Runner wrote:
>>
>>> Thats funny thats what I did with Avast when i got infected with a virus
>>> which that program didn't stop
>>>
>>> "André Gulliksen" <andre.gulliksen@start.no> wrote in message
>>> news:306desF2sbidpU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>>
>>>>Road Runner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>AVG has a new free Anti Virus program , Read all about it ...
>>>>
>>>>"New"? I used this years ago, before dumping it in favour of Avast!
>>
>>
>> Looking for the perfect road - have you been trying Kaspersky 5.0?
>>
>> RC
>
>

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