[Elecraft] dangerous software
Ron D'Eau Claire
ron at cobi.biz
Sat Jul 21 19:45:22 EDT 2007
Absolutely! I have used AVG Anti-Virus by Grisoft for over four years on
several machines without a single issue. In my experience it is far more
stable and reliable than either of the two highly-advertised brands that
often come pre-loaded on new machines, and it has a much, much smaller
memory 'footprint'.
My version is the paid one since I use my computers in my business. IIRC
it's costing me about a buck a month on each machine.
Downloads take only a few seconds. The paid version (at least) updates
automatically. IIRC the free version simply requires a click on a radio
button.
They offer 24X7 support for the paid version as well, but I can't say how
well it works because I've never needed it.
I deal with hundreds of e-mails each day. AVG just keeps working and
working. The only evidence it's there is when it grabs an infected file and
quarantines it.
I lean on Windows Firewall and deal with SPAM by identifying the dozens
(hundreds?) of people - friends and clients alike - who I expect to hear
from and have Outlook shunt their mail into specific folders. That leaves
almost nothing but SPAM in the in-box. I can quickly scan it for anything I
want to save and then dump the lot in one move.
I prefer doing that after having a SPAM filter accidentally grab and trash a
few important e-mails from clients.
Ron AC7AC
-----Original Message-----
a friend of mine with a young teen aged daughter that uses IM pgms a lot.
Mentioned to me he had to use AVG's Anti-Spyware and Anti-Rootkit to remove
some
things not caught by SpyBot or Ad-Aware on her computer.
I can vouch for AVG's Anti-Virus pgm as a good one. All of them are free.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/frt/0
ymmv
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GB & 73's
KA5OAI
Sam Morgan
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