[ale] [OT] clam av for windows

[Tim Watts]

Thanks. F-prot also looks good. AVG seems to have discontinued their
"free" version. All I could find was a 30-day trial. I'll have to look
into that rescue CD. Seems like the most prudent approach for an
"unknown" windows system.


On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 09:49 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Tim Watts wrote:
> > Anyone have experience with this? Is it a decent product?
> 
> I didn't care for Clam AV on Windows personally, but it's been a few 
> years so YMMV.
> 
> I've never had any major issues with the free version of AVG.  Unless 
> you go in for them, uncheck the toolbar install.
> 
> Avira is also a decent option.  Avira has a nag screen when it updates 
> the virus signatures (just press "OK" and it goes away) and seems to be 
> lighter on resources than AVG.  Can't speak enough about their "AnitVir 
> Rescue System" which runs from a Linux LiveCD.  :)
> 
> either will do a casual Windows without their needing to go through a 
> great amount of configuring.
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