I didn’t like the new AVG 8 so I did a bit of research and found the best scoring free Anti-Virus freeware is AntiVir by Avira which nicely includes a custom install for switching off parts of the software.
I’m quite careful about checking suspicious files I download so I installed it without the constantly running “guard” saving boot-up time and the CPU.
The one downside is that when it updates the virus database, you get a “Buy premium edition” pop-up which is just annoying. Luckily I found this fix -UPDATED- (for WinXP) which prevents this pop-up making it the perfect anti-virus for me.
Tags: anti-virus
November 8, 2008 at 10:47 am
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I have new free antivirus link on http://donbiu.blogspot.com . You can view and there