Re: Free antivirus [Off topic]
- Posted by Euler German <efgerman at myrealbox.com> Feb 23, 2002
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Of course not Ricardo. But AVG has this weird policy. Their software is only free for non-European countries, and I didn't know you were so close. You're welcome, always. -- Euler On 23 Feb 2002, at 23:57, rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > > Well, Argentina is not located in Europe, or is it? > Thanks. Muito obrigado. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Euler German" <efgerman at myrealbox.com> > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:15 PM > Subject: Re: Free antivirus [Off topic] > > > > Hi Ricardo: > > > > It depends. If you're looking for a virus scanner you might take a > > look at F-Prot (for DOS). Though its text interface, it's a tremendous > > scanner. I use it along with my eMail client (Pegasus Mail) and it > > works very fine even on MIME encoded. 1. Get a copy of the freeware > > F-Prot for DOS from http://www.complex.is/f-prot/Download.html and > > extract it to directory C:\f-prot. 2. I kind of like the updater from > > http://www.blackeclipse.com/forum/. Runs in the system tray to update > > both the f-prot and the updater software. > > > > If you're looking for a permanent active Antivirus, i.e. scanner, on- > > demand scanner and eMail scanner your choice could be AVG > > http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/avg6319fu.exe but I'm not sure if > > it can be downloaded by Europeans. Take a look at their site. I have > > it also but it's on-demand scanner demands a high CPU usage. > > > > Another choice is AntiVir from H+BEDV. It works fine though it has > > some false alarms from time to time. Get it from > > http://www.free-av.com/ > > > > Cheers! > > > > -- Euler > > > > > > On 21 Feb 2002, at 22:49, rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > > > > > > > > Does someone know a good free antivirus? I was using InoculateIt, > > > but apparently they ceased to update the virus signatures since > > > January 24th. Thanks. > > > > > > > > >