Absolutely! I have used AVG Anti-Virus by Grisoft for over four years on several machines without a single issue. In my experience it is far more stable and reliable than either of the two highly-advertised brands that often come pre-loaded on new machines, and it has a much, much smaller memory 'footprint'.
My version is the paid one since I use my computers in my business. IIRC it's costing me about a buck a month on each machine. Downloads take only a few seconds. The paid version (at least) updates automatically. IIRC the free version simply requires a click on a radio button. They offer 24X7 support for the paid version as well, but I can't say how well it works because I've never needed it. I deal with hundreds of e-mails each day. AVG just keeps working and working. The only evidence it's there is when it grabs an infected file and quarantines it. I lean on Windows Firewall and deal with SPAM by identifying the dozens (hundreds?) of people - friends and clients alike - who I expect to hear from and have Outlook shunt their mail into specific folders. That leaves almost nothing but SPAM in the in-box. I can quickly scan it for anything I want to save and then dump the lot in one move. I prefer doing that after having a SPAM filter accidentally grab and trash a few important e-mails from clients. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- a friend of mine with a young teen aged daughter that uses IM pgms a lot. Mentioned to me he had to use AVG's Anti-Spyware and Anti-Rootkit to remove some things not caught by SpyBot or Ad-Aware on her computer. I can vouch for AVG's Anti-Virus pgm as a good one. All of them are free. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-virus/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-spyware/us/frt/0 http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/frt/0 ymmv -- GB & 73's KA5OAI Sam Morgan _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
