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What is the best free antivirus?
 
I now use Microsoft's

security essentials



on my systems it has

worked flawlessly in

windows.



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"Jeff T." wrote in message news:e8PsB9xsKHA.6088@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> What is the best free antivirus?

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1) Microsoft Security Essential (MSE)

2) AVAST



Don't touch anything else.



hth







"Jeff T." wrote in message

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On Feb 21, 6:05 pm, "20100221"

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> 1) Microsoft Security Essential (MSE)

> 2) AVAST

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> Don't touch anything else.

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> hth

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Avast seems to do a good job . I had MSE on the pc but it was

still full of odd things ... avast on boot scan finally sorted

the pc



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"Graham" wrote in message

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Avast seems to do a good job . I had MSE on the pc but it was

still full of odd things ... avast on boot scan finally sorted

the pc





Would you care to explain what these odd things were when using MSE? It is

important to explain here so that any rectification necessary can be done

immediately.



hth
 
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:56:50 -0600, "Jeff T."

wrote:



> What is the best free antivirus?







You'll get different opinions from different people, but here's my

view: Avast and Avira are both excellent and approximately equal.



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I use Avira. Just checkin'

Thanks,

Jeff

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message

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> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:56:50 -0600, "Jeff T."

> wrote:

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>> What is the best free antivirus?

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> You'll get different opinions from different people, but here's my

> view: Avast and Avira are both excellent and approximately equal.

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From: "Ken Blake, MVP"



| On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:56:50 -0600, "Jeff T."

| wrote:



>> What is the best free antivirus?







| You'll get different opinions from different people, but here's my

| view: Avast and Avira are both excellent and approximately equal.



Avast doesn't have as good a detection rate and has instances like when it falsely

detected the VBS:Zulu on various Microsoft web pages and took 2 months to correct it.



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your outgoing email is scanned with Avast, you worthless lying troll. so go

rectify that, prune nose.

find another username. all future dates will be taken ... bwaaaa haaa haa.



"20100221" wrote:



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> Would you care to explain what these odd things were when using MSE? It is

> important to explain here so that any rectification necessary can be done

> immediately.

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> hth

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+1, "db"



MSE has worked flawlessly for me for the past few months. Prior to that I

had used AVAST! for several years and it, too worked great. However, MSE

does both the AV and the Anti- spyware jobs nicely with very small resource

usage.



I also use the Windows firewall and do Malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware and

SpyBot S&D weekly late night off-line scans. Sort of a belt, suspenders and

thumbtack approach but it works well for me.



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"db" wrote in message

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I now use Microsoft's

security essentials



on my systems it has

worked flawlessly in

windows.



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db·´¯`·...¸>

DatabaseBen, Retired Professional

- Systems Analyst

- Database Developer

- Accountancy

- Veteran of the Armed Forces

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"Jeff T." wrote in message

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> What is the best free antivirus?

>
 
20100222 wrote:

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> your outgoing email is scanned with Avast, you worthless lying troll. so go

> rectify that, prune nose.

> find another username. all future dates will be taken ... bwaaaa haaa haa.

>



You are a clever little b@stard to notice this. For your added

information, I use Avast and MSE. Nothing else. Does that satisfy you.



Perhaps tomorrow I will have a new username if that is OK with you. Can

you sister s u c k my c0ck now?
 
In news:e8PsB9xsKHA.6088@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,

Jeff T. typed:

> What is the best free antivirus?



avg



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"Jeff T." wrote in message

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> What is the best free antivirus?





From time to time, I wonder why people enquire for a

_free_ antivirus program. I'd think that second only to

a thoroughly reliable backup and restore program, the

protection of a good antivirus program is something

worth investing actual money in. For instance, if

nobody is being paid to constantly update the software

and the antivirus (and presumably spyware) databases

it uses, where is the assurance of quality and reliability?





MHO.
 
On 21 Feb 2010, "Anthony Buckland"

wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:



> From time to time, I wonder why people enquire for a

> _free_ antivirus program. I'd think that second only to

> a thoroughly reliable backup and restore program, the

> protection of a good antivirus program is something

> worth investing actual money in. For instance, if

> nobody is being paid to constantly update the software

> and the antivirus (and presumably spyware) databases

> it uses, where is the assurance of quality and reliability?



You're quite out of touch. Most of the free anti-virus programs have

for-cost equivalents, and both use the same detection engine and

database.
 
Twayne wrote:

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> In news:e8PsB9xsKHA.6088@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,

> Jeff T. typed:

>> What is the best free antivirus?

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> avg

>



I second AVG.
 
One that works.



Jeff T. wrote:

> What is the best free antivirus?
 
That can only be MSE.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message

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> One that works.

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> Jeff T. wrote:

>> What is the best free antivirus?
 
"Unknown" wrote in message

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: That can only be MSE.



You've got to be kidding.
 
Not at all. He said 'one that works'.

"Tom Willett" wrote in message

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> "Unknown" wrote in message

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> : That can only be MSE.

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> You've got to be kidding.

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