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Re: [PLUG] OT: Which Windows Anti-Virus?
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Surprised nobody's mentioned the free AVG, which I heard a lot of
recommendations for in Slashdot comments a while back. Is it not as
good as it once was?
--Gordon
Greg Helledy wrote:
> I use ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com/ on my Windows machines. It's
> based on the GPL ClamAV engine.
> Note that is that it's not a resident engine to intercept viruses in
> real time. Rather, you schedule it to do scans for viruses present on
> disks or in memory. The upside of this is that it does not get in your
> way AT ALL. The downside is that it may not provide the level of
> protection that you want, especially on a machine used by kids.
>
> Greg
>
>
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