Anti Virus Programs

[drivewizard]

Never used an anti-virus program, never had a virus either. Knock on wood. Just carefull about the e-mails I open.
Have got friends who get them all the time though, and spend big bucks fixing, and they have all the anti stuff

[The Penguin]

Gotta go with Avg and zone alarm pro and ad aware and spybot.
norton is like a big bloated whale that hogs sys resources and is expensive to boot.
I also do backups regulary to a maxtor external partitioned 160 gig hard drive and my comps internal 160 gig HD is partitioned so if I have to reinstall the OS it won't destroy the data

[air of honesty]

Originally posted by drivewizard
Never used an anti-virus program, never had a virus either. Knock on wood. Just carefull about the e-mails I open.
Have got friends who get them all the time though, and spend big bucks fixing, and they have all the anti stuff

That won't cut it these days. Just because your system isn't acting up doesn't mean some real bad stuff is operating in there.

At a minimum you ought to download, update and run Spybot and Adaware, and run through a few of the online scanners.

The reason your friends are always fixing things is probably because they discovered that they were there...

[sigma]

Originally posted by me75006
AVG antivirus.

I wander what do they gain by giving away free
antivirus software?
Is there a catch?

[The Penguin]

the idea is to gain market share by getting installed on machines, proving that you program is good and slowely getting the market to understand that you have a great product worth getting the upgrade version. It worked for me I paid for Zonealarm pro

besides I like avg its faster than norton and it is a lighter program to run and uases less resources to work.
I have it checking incomming and outgoing email and up loads and down loads.

I will eventually pay for the professional version as I am gettting my moneys worth