Which Anti-Vi is best??

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I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :)

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE

Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
 
seabat said:
I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :)

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE

Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
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AVG
 
seabat said:
I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :) /snip
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE
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Not really an old question; it gets asked several times a week!

AntiVir PE
 
seabat said:
I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :)

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE

Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
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Avast!!!
 
I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :)

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best.
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE
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Assuming the laptop is quite old, I'll go for AntivirPE.
It's by far the least resource hungry of the three.
My pII 400 Mhz 128 Mb RAM system is stutters a bit running AVG7 or Avast,
while AntivirPE runs just fine.
 
På 9 Dec 2004 13:38:57 GMT said:
Assuming the laptop is quite old, I'll go for AntivirPE.
It's by far the least resource hungry of the three.
My pII 400 Mhz 128 Mb RAM system is stutters a bit running AVG7 or Avast,
while AntivirPE runs just fine.
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I subscribe to this.
Besides, AntivirPE is a very effective and userfriendly AV, too.

AVG can proactively scan e-mails before they reach your in-box, but the
probable slowing down of your system doesn't make it worthwhile.
Avast has more functions than the others, but it's definitely not suitable
for older and slower systems.
 
I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway! :)

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE

Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
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Not exactly free but - free for 1 year
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
Do a custom install and install just the antivirus. Has automatic updates,
scan and Email protection.

regards

Dud
 
I was using AVG but the new version kept giving me a 'Cannot update" message
so I changed to AntiVir PE. This is a neat, fast little application and it
doesn't use a lot of resources. Seems to use about half the memory of AVG.
Updates about daily.
 
All at least OK and I use all on different pcs. AntiVir updates are slow on
a dial-up connect.
 
southinwinter said:
All at least OK and I use all on different pcs. AntiVir updates are slow on
a dial-up connect.
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AntiVir updates have been quicker lately. They are working on it.
 
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