Re: is AVG a good virus scanner for XP Home?

From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:57:56 -0500

"Jeff W" <msnews@Kwcpa.com>
wrote in news:el7r9mssEHA.3600@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:
> so will i have to start paying for updates?
>
> might be good to try for a while though -t hanks!
> /j
>
> GTS wrote:
>
>> It's normally sold at $29.95. Microsoft and Computer Associates
>> made some kind of deal and a free version including 1 year
>> subscription is available at http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
>> That will probably not be available indefinitely.
>> The package is EZ Armor which includes a branded version of Zone
>> Alarm. When you run the actual install, you can optionally install
>> both or just the AV.

As said, it is a 1-year free subscription. You get to use it for a
year. After that, you will have to *buy* another subscription. I
believe that the free offer will be discontinued around February 2005
(don't remember where I read that). The subscription will continue to
whenever it expires after a year of you installing it, but you won't be
able to download the no-cost copy of it after that.

Rather than use the branded version of ZoneAlarm included in EzArmor
(firewall + anti-virus), you can just install the anti-virus portion of
it. You can also download EzAntiVirus and EzFirewall to get just the
component you want. I would suggest just using their anti-virus product
(it used to be their InoculateIT anti-virus product). For the firewall,
just go to ZoneLabs to download the 5.1 version (which fixes problems
they had for version 5.0) since the branded version included in EzArmor
or EzFirewall might be an older version. Or go use Sygate's free
personal firewall (smb.sygate.com). While Sygate has some nice security
features more than ZoneAlarm, there are some behaviors of Sygate that I
don't like (I'm also "Vanguard" under the Sygate forums at
http://forums.sygate.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=8) and might end
up going with ZoneAlarm. 

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