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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2007 at 06:39
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

^ if everybody switched from Windows to Mac, then the malware developers would also switch to that platform. So if you want your Mac to stay low-profile, you better not make people switch to it.Wink


I bet it still wouldn't freeze and crash as much as windows.

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^ if everybody switched from Windows to Mac, then the malware developers would also switch to that platform. So if you want your Mac to stay low-profile, you better not make people switch to it.Wink
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Points: 13244 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:40
Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

I'm not even sure it's free but I have Avast! and it works perfectly.


It's free for personal use, if you re-register every 14 months. I've been using it for 4 years now, without problems and nicely (Wink) catching a virus every once in a while.

I switched to Avast from AVG 4 years ago because the update server of AVG was down more often than up.
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:37
Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

I'm not even sure it's free but I have Avast! and it works perfectly.


Yes it is (home edition, for non-commercial usage). Here's the website:

http://www.avast.com/
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:23
I'm not even sure it's free but I have Avast! and it works perfectly.

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Points: 7606 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2007 at 17:04
AVG anti-virus is free and can scan individual files and be scheduled, doesn't pretend to be a firewall and self-updates. if your computer isn't up-to-date a professional anti-virus tool can often be more demanding on your system than the virus itself
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My subscription to Norton is up and I'm wondering if its worth continueing with it or getting a freeware anti-virus. So whats better, renuing the subscribtion or downloading a freeware A-V, and if getting a freeware one, whats the best one to get?

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