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Best of the Free Anti-virus Choices?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the protect-yerself dept.

iamjoltman writes "I've been looking to replace the McAfee anti-virus on my parent's XP machine. So, I've been looking at the three free anti-virus choices, AVG Free Edition, avast! Home Edition and AntiVir Personal Edition. I know there are other options, but I believe any others are only on-demand scanners, and that's not an option. So, what does the Slashdot crowd think is the best of these choices? Keep in mind, I'm only looking in anti-virus, I'll go elsewhere for firewall or malware protection."

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  1. Viruses? People Still Get Those? by filesiteguy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Seriously, I still have one machine which I haven't upgraded from Windows to Linux yet. It has been running AGV Free for several years now and has yet to be truly compromized - in spite of my wife's best efforts. AGV does a good job of realtime scanning and system wide scheduled scans. The virus definition is continually up to date and automatically downloads on a periodic basis.

    I'd highly recommend AGV Free.

    Of course, the best solution is to simply upgrade from Windows to a real OS like Linux. :)

    <troll mode>
    By the way, SUSE 10.1 is now out and better than ever!
    </troll mode>

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  2. Re:Elsewhere.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's been 37 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment. I ain't a Cowboy and it was another post in another thread.

    OK, shit for brains, what do you suggest!
    Given permission, I can lock down a Windows machine to the point that it's safer than your linux boxen. Just don't ever call me and complain that CNN/DRM crap news video won't play anymore. If you want to watch video turn on the fuckin TV. If I open up CNN/DRM crap video, I also have to open it up for Flash adverts and pages that refresh and retransmit the the entire page every time you hit the back button. People are not the problem, web and browser developers are the problem. We don't want any of your bullshit plugins.
    Take Java, ActiveX, Active scripting, Perl, PHP etc. and shove them up your collective asses.
    I'd like to mutually fuck (Real world fuck!) my neighbor in Oklahoma City, yet I've got to span tons of crap to get er done.