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I cron this every day, have fun!

fog@fog:/usr/local/bin$ cat getantivirus.sh
wget -N -i /antivirus/filestoget.txt -P /antivirus

fog@fog:/antivirus$ cat filestoget.txt
http://www.superantispyware.com/downloads/SASDEFINITIONS.EXE
http://downloads.superantispyware.com/downloads/SUPERAntiSpyware.exe
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUBs/ComboFix.exe
http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd162.exe
http://www.spybotupdates.biz/updates/files/spybotsd_includes.exe
http://download.avgfree.com/filedir/inst/avg_free_stf_en_85_420a1708.exe
http://go.trendmicro.com/free-tools/hijackthis/HijackThisInstaller.exe
http://dlce.antivir.com/package/wks_avira/win32/en/pecl/avira_antivir_personal_en.exe
http://dl.antivir.de/down/vdf/ivdf_fusebundle_nt_en.zip
http://mbam.malwarebytes.org/database/mbam-rules.exe
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/program/mbam-setup.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe

I use AntiVir, though it is not free for commercial use. It's fast and easy to set up under Windows, though.

When you run Windows, you must run anti-virus ~all~ the time!

Dude it's windows. It really doesn't matter.
Just a few days ago I updated this officially licensed and paid for XP box at work via official windows update. You know, service pack 2 and stuff.
Since then the virus scanner (antivir) is broken - the guard-service will pop up, complain about a missing dll and die.
Uninstall/Reinstall of antivir didn't help (the dll-error seems gone but the symptom is the same).
Also the poor soul who has to work at that box reports that apps randomly choke for up to one minute and everything seems horribly slow now.
After a couple runs of the virusscanner, ad-aware and some other spyware-cleaning tools the box seems virus- and spyware-free. But the problems remain.

So, what exactly is funny about people pulling their broken patches from P2P?
I think paying for this crap in first place really is the funny part.

There is AntiVir which provides its software free for personal users, however it's in German only. I've used it on my Win2k system for a few years now. As far as I know it doesn't integrate with any e-mail-clients, but it recognized viruses in attachments as soon as I saved them to disk.

AntiVir (free-as-in-beer version here) detects it too. Their removal tool also takes care of it.

AntiVir (free-as-in-beer version here) detects it too. Their removal tool also takes care of it.

• Check out AntiVir

Alex Bischoff
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I also remember when there was more than just two companies making anti-virus software

There still are. Check out AntiVir or Sophos. I personally use AntiVir which kicks NAV's ass thoroughly.