Anti Virus Program - For $20 or less?

[chapulincolorado]

I am planning to acquire an anti-virus program for my home computer. What's a good one for $20 or less? :confused:

[Kryptonite]

AntiVir Personal Edition Classic.

Absolutely free.

[Foosinho]

I am planning to acquire an anti-virus program for my home computer. What's a good one for $20 or less? :confused:
Whatever product you use, it should automagically put the name of your avatar in your .sig line. I'm not sure I've ever seen you use a photo I've seen before, and they are all quality.

More serious answer - AntiVir. I use it too.

[Motterman]

AntiVir
Avast!
AVG Free
ClamWin

All of these are free, try any of them and see which one you like best... (although make sure you uninstall each one and rebooting before installing the next one)

Oh, you can get any of them and more from here:

http://filehippo.com/software/antivirus/

There's also spyware utilities that filehippo has available for download and other cool stuff...

[Foosinho]

ClamWin

I presume this is the Windows version of ClamAV, which is was I use on my Linux box to virus scan my email before it gets put in people's mailboxes. I'm pretty happy with ClamAV, too.

[Motterman]

I presume this is the Windows version of ClamAV, which is was I use on my Linux box to virus scan my email before it gets put in people's mailboxes. I'm pretty happy with ClamAV, too.

Yes, it is. I've also got ClamXav running on my Mac Powerbook and it works well so far.

A lot of ISP's that have Linux-based email servers use ClamAV and if it works with that kind of traffic, I'm pretty confident it can handle my stuff...

[chapulincolorado]

Whatever product you use, it should automagically put the name of your avatar in your .sig line. I'm not sure I've ever seen you use a photo I've seen before, and they are all quality.

:D

More serious answer - AntiVir. I use it too.

Thanks. :)

[Iceblink]

I've been using Avast! for a couple years now, and I haven't had any problems at all.

I uninstalled norton antivirus to switch. I've never looked back.

[Grouchy]

I've used the free AVG for years. My ex used AntiVir personal for some reason and one MySpace virus got by it. I installed Avast! on my parent's computer but the interface confused the heck of them - it looked like a VCR; bleah.

The important thing to remember is none of these programs are perfect. I've seen a Kaspersky machine get totally trashed and a Norton machine get disabled by a trojan/virus. All it takes is a download of an infected executable and you could be toast; one got me pretty bad: Win32/Gaelicum.A virus (http://grouchgeek.blogspot.com/2008/05/computer-hell.html) which ate through about 2/3 of my .exe until AVG started quarantining things including it's own quarantine manager.

Always take backups, never trust anything...

[Foosinho]

That's an important thing to remember: "good" viruses (virii?) will disable your antivirus so it can do it's business uninterrupted. Keep your virus definitions up to date, and check regularly that everything is in working order.

[CutePuppy]

AVG for sure

[chapulincolorado]

AVG for sure

Has anyone bought their AVG Internet Security?

http://biggerbids.com/members/images/3415/public/422207_AVG-internetSecurity.jpg