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Sniper Mike
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Location: Detroit
Registered: 7/23/2006    Warnings: 0
Protection for computers
Does anyone know of a good free software that protects against viruses? I already have avg and it is not going to be free anymore.
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Micah Bryan
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cds0528
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That's actually not true, believe it or not:

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

I think they want you to think that so you will upgrade. I am considering moving away from AVG though because of all this mess. Basically they upgraded their free version to the 7.5 version, but since they want to make money, they have a paid version with anti-spyware and a firewall, which is kinda redundant since most likely you're behind a router (firewall), and even if you're not, if you're XP SP2, you have a firewall. For anti-spyware, I'm sure Spybot SD and Windows Defender would do better anyway.

As for an alternative, I've heard many people say they think a program called Nod32 (just google it, don't know the website) is better. I haven't actually tried it, but I've heard it's a bit more technical than AVG, but many seem to think it's a touch better. I'm not going to switch unless AVG gives me more reason too, but it's a solid alternative.
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byerspc
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Nod32 costs money though...Caleb is right. I got the message today and downloaded the 7.5 version for free...it is just kind of hidden
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Sniper Mike
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So AVG is just trying to get you to upgrade and it is techinally free. Thanks for the help!
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JDOG
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I installed 7.5 and all the sudden it said that my registry was corrupt and that i needed to renew the license. I went to my e-mail account and couldn't find any license info like they said. So, I went through and uninstalled it. It didn't completely remove it from my system so I went into the program files and completely removed it, so I thought. I then downloaded a fresh copy from CNET and it still says that I have an old copy of AVG on there. Any ideas how to get that off my system completely because I don't have any other anti-virus.
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byerspc
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bad idea to hack at it to try and remove. If anything you should have tried restarting before installing. You can do a registry search for it and delete from that but be careful...start run regedit.
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antivir
jdog. . .this sounds like the beginning of the end for you. . . especially since you installed that anti-spyware software that toasted my system.

another free alternative that i have heard works better than avg is antivir.
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JDOG
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tr I had to reformat before i left for spring break and i didn't install that program. but i'll look into the antivir.
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http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Avast is what PCMAG rates pretty well...free as well. My brother put it on my aunt's machine...it is ok. I think AVG is still the best of course not antivirus on my mac :-)
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