anti virus

Besides Avast is there another free antivirus that is better? for Windows
Vista?

Hi,

Not sure what you mean by better - there are other free apps. but not as complete as Avast - I use it and it's excellent - so good, that Windows Defender has never had anything to do. It has 7 functions - trick is to turn off the one's you don't want e.g. VRDBS .

The others either carry advertising, or lack download scanning, or have no rootkit detector.

You will find plenty to choose from here - read the review of Avast - you may change your mind

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SIW2

I use the AVG free version at home.
http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-...s-free-edition


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CdLSRN wrote the following in news:uCTtmqfDJHA.4176@xxxxxx
in microsoft.public.windows.vista.general at Wed 03 Sep 2008 12:23:41p
http://free.avg.com/

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"CdLSRN" <NOspam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:uCTtmqfDJHA.4176@xxxxxx
Besides Avast is there another free antivirus that is better? for Windows
Vista?

AVG Free. My favorite choice and most frequent recommendation.

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"CdLSRN" <NOspam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you all. I also have used it successfully. I just needed to document
for my skeptical son. I will forward your answers to him.

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

Yes AVG Free is a decent antivirus- but it is only that - if you want the rootkit detector, you have to pay for it - even AVG emphasise how basic the protection it offers is.

When is the last time you heard of anyone getting a virus ?

The bigger threats now are rootkits, worms , trojans..... and while Windows Defender offers pretty decent protection, no single app. can guarantee to detect everything - it makes sense to have another app. that covers these as well.

I use Avast because it covers them all including antivirus, offers real time resident protection, and updates every 4 hours.

I don't know why they offer such a complete product free, as there's no need for a home user to get the paid version - check Preston Gralla's review for pcworld :

avast! Home Edition | Security Download | PC World


SIW2

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 19:06:40 -0400, CdLSRN wrote:
Consider this also:

Avira AntiVir® Personal - FREE Antivirus
http://www.free-av.com/
(The free version won't scan your emails.)

Why You Don't Need Your Anti-Virus Program to Scan Your E-Mail
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm
Ensure your e-mail program is configured to display e-mail messages in
'Plain Text' only.
You may wish to consider removing the 'AntiVir Nagscreen'
http://www.elitekiller.com/files/dis...ntivir_nag.htm

Routinely practice Safe-Hex.
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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In Europe, most reports and reviews rate Avira AntiVir (German) over FreeAVG
(Czech) more recently. It is a lot more effective - even more so, in some
cases, than other very highly rated AVs, like NOD32 (Slovakian), which is
what I use. It does have a very annoying upgrade reminder in the free
version, but you can disable the running of the notify.exe reminder in
Security Policy.

ss.