[OT] anti-virus opins?

[Tim Wunder]

On Sunday 31 December 2006 6:35 pm, Bob Hemus wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 08:39 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > Anyone have opinions on antivirus software for windows? Wife's office
> > uses MacAfee and Norton, both heavy on resources, and I've been hearing
> > good things about Panda being lighter and quite effective, as well as
> > more reasonable prices. Thoughts?
> 
> Ever looked at F-Prot, here's the google search page.
> F-PROTAntivirus for Windows, Linux, BSD, Exchange, AIX, Solaris ...
> F-Prot Antivirus for Windows, DOS, Linux and other platforms.
> www.f-prot.com/ - 12k - Dec 29, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages
> Download - www.f-prot.com/download/
> Windows - www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/win/
> Product Overview - www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/win/
> DOS - www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
> More results from www.f-prot.com ?
>

I stopped using F-Prot at work because of its intrusive update pop-up, there 
was no way to disable it. That was nearly 2 years ago, though. So it may be 
more well behaved now.

I've had great success with, and would recommend Grisoft's AVG product on the 
client side.

Regards, 
Tim

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