Save money on Antivirus
November 16th, 2006 by digerati
If you’re like most people these days you’re somewhat paranoid about computer security. Increasing occurrences of worms and virus attacks leave us feeling vulnerable and wondering what to do. Unfortunately, we tend to turn to the largest advertisers for a solution to this problem.
McAfee and Symantec (Norton prodiucts) make good products but they can end up costing a small fortune…annual virus definition subscriptions, buying copies for each computer, etc.
Would you like to stay protected but save money too? Take a good look at Clam Win. It’s an open source antivirus program. It has all the features of McAfee but without the costs. In fact, it’s free! It integrates with MS Office to prevent email viruses and worms and includes automatic virus definition downloads. Couldn’t be better.
I find that the open source virus products are far superior to the commercial onces. Commercial software seems to want you to get a faster and faster computer all the time. The free products tend to run faster on my older machines and use fewer resources (memory and processor) on my new ones.
codsteb Says
On antivirus and anti-spyware:
It’s been recommended to me to use an antivirus (I use the free edition of AVG, recently upgraded), which can be set for daily, weekly, etc. scans.
The same “techno-gizmo guru” I use tells me that spyware is a worse threat these days than viruses. And, that one should use more than one of these, as each will find and eradicate different spyware tricksters.
I use the (free) Spybot, and the (free) Ad-Aware applications. Further, there is an online (also free) service to which one has easy access: it is found at Trendmicro.com — you have to search around that site a bit, but its antispy program has found nasty data miners in my computer the others have not.
Here’s to safer Internet use.
Jan 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am