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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:25 pm
Post subject: Good Freebie AV?
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Seems like some months ago somebody mentioned one that was free for individual
users as a sort of loss leader for the enterprise/commercial edition of the same
product.

I just put a second PC online and would rather not up the confusion ante
w/TrendMicro...

Does anybody recall the name?
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:07 pm
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David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "(PeteCresswell)" <x.RemoveThis@y.Invalid>
>
> | Seems like some months ago somebody mentioned one that was free for individual
> | users as a sort of loss leader for the enterprise/commercial edition of the same
> | product.
> |
> | I just put a second PC online and would rather not up the confusion ante
> | w/TrendMicro...
> |
> | Does anybody recall the name?

>
> Avast is probably the best of the "freebies".

That's debatable, but it is the biggest resource hog.


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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:02 am
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Jay wrote:

> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "(PeteCresswell)" <x DeleteThis @y.Invalid>
>>
>>| Seems like some months ago somebody mentioned one that was free for
>>| individual users as a sort of loss leader for the
>>| enterprise/commercial edition of the same product.
>>|
>>| I just put a second PC online and would rather not up the confusion
>>| ante w/TrendMicro...
>>|
>>| Does anybody recall the name?
>>
>> Avast is probably the best of the "freebies".
>
> That's debatable, but it is the biggest resource hog.

Turn off the unnecessary stuff. I've got it running, currently using
about 4.2 MB of ram.

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