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AVG is the answer (none / 0) (#1)
by wantobe on Fri Apr 08, 2005 at 03:00:08 AM PDT

AVG, available at www.grisoft.com, is an excellent solution. It won't get the money you wasted on Symantec or McAfee back (because McAfee is just as bad), but will save you money and frustration. It's free for personal use, $33 per license for business use (or, if you get the network version, it boils down to about $30 or less per license), which gets you two years of updates and program upgrades (verses however much the other two charge for one year.)

I've been using AVG (and Avast, another free-for-home-use antivirus program for years, and have been very happy with it. Avast is also cheaper than Symantec for corporate use, but not as cost effective as AVG (in my experience.) Most of my clients have switched and are very happy to do so. No stupid activation, no stupid program defects, etc.

There are a number of good, free-for-personal-use and less-expensive-for-businesses antivirus programs, so if you don't like either of the above two you can find much better solutions than Symantec. Quit giving them your money if they can't treat you right. Otherwise, you have no one to blame but yourself now that you've been warned and informed.

Rob Miles
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There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't.



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